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Elon Musk and other modern oligarchs can not only sway the public – they can exploit their data, too A new Gilded Age of media barons? All the newspapers fit to buy Over the past decade, numerous American billionaires have purchased news media outlets such as theBoston Globe,Las Vegas Review-Journal,The Atlanticand theLos Angeles Times. Perhaps the most famous example isJeff Bezos, the founder and executive chairman of Amazon, whospent US$250 millionof his roughly $170 billion net worth to purchaseThe Washington Postin 2013....

Elon Musk busts a move and opens Europe’s first Tesla factory Welcome to sausage fights, smoking bars, and weg biers This is a game-changer for the German auto market This is Tesla’s first manufacturing plant in Europe, and it hopes to produce roughly 30,000 vehicles in the first six months, with a target of manufacturing a whopping 500,000 cars per year in the future. The new Gigafactory also aims to generate 50-gigawatt hours of battery power, surpassing all other plants in Germany....

Elon Musk buys Twitter $44 billion purchases a lot of change Where it started The whole kerfuffle beganearlier this monthwhen Musk purchased 9.2% of Twitter’s stock to become its largest shareholder. Subsequently, the company offered Musk a board position in what most experts saw as a transparent attempt to stop the world’s richest man from purchasing more stock. At first, Musk signaled his willingness to accept the position. But heeventually declinedbefore making a bid on the entire company....

Elon Musk is putting his Twitter deal on hold because… bots Story byIvan Mehta Ivan covers Big Tech, India, policy, AI, security, platforms, and apps for TNW. That’s one heck of a mixed bag. He likes to say “Bleh.“Ivan covers Big Tech, India, policy, AI, security, platforms, and apps for TNW. That’s one heck of a mixed bag. He likes to say “Bleh.” Get the TNW newsletter Get the most important tech news in your inbox each week....

Elon Musk jumps the shark It’s hard to be an edge lord when you’re stuck in the middle Story byTristan Greene Tristan is a futurist covering human-centric artificial intelligence advances, quantum computing, STEM, physics, and space stuff. Pronouns:(show all)Tristan is a futurist covering human-centric artificial intelligence advances, quantum computing, STEM, physics, and space stuff. Pronouns: He/him Get the TNW newsletter Get the most important tech news in your inbox each week....