Influence


Another Big Tech founder (mostly) moves on.


After the largest corporate layoffs in its history, the tech giant is at a crossroads.


Recode obtained a recording of a Mark Zuckerberg Q&A and internal survey results that show how Meta’s struggles are impacting staff.


We bid adieu to moonshots, Portals, and ad-free Netflix.


After quickly amassing political and philanthropic influence, the former billionaire has been arrested for fraud.


Amazon was already considering a change that regulators are now framing as a win.


The transition to electric vehicles hit several milestones in 2022.

Apple’s privacy-friendly ad business is also an antitrust avoidance strategy.

Musk asked Twitter users if he should step down. A majority of them said yes.


But we don’t know when, or who will replace him.

It was the year the billionaires showed who they really are.


Twitter Blue is back, and this time it’s also gold, gray, square, and passive-aggressive.


The move is connected to a debate over an account that tracked the whereabouts of Elon Musk’s jet.


It’s not about doxxing. It’s about Elon.


The long shadow of James Burnham’s The Managerial Revolution.

Profound philosophical errors enabled the FTX collapse.

Elon Musk’s brain chip implant company is reportedly under federal investigation for violating the Animal Welfare Act.


The billionaire dug himself into a hole with the Boring Company.


A leaked memo shows Amazon was concerned with attracting and retaining top engineers earlier this year.


Under Elon Musk’s leadership, journalists have even more of a love-hate relationship with the platform.


“Elon Musk is the bravest, most creative person on the planet.”

Elon Musk’s disaster month at Twitter has come to a close. Let’s discuss.


Amazon has quietly been developing AI software to screen job applicants.


Issues at Tesla are piling up while its boss is distracted by his new company.


Why do we keep believing things that are too good to be true?


All the times Twitter’s Chief Flip-Flopper has gone back on his word.


After 48 hours of chaos and silence from top company leaders, many employees still don’t know if they’ll have jobs next year.


The Twitter CEO has repeatedly contradicted his own “free speech” values.


Musk biographer Ashlee Vance explains why Twitter isn’t Tesla or SpaceX.

Inside Elon’s war room.



Inside the under-the-radar business that makes more money than Amazon Prime.


Ultra-wealth gives someone like Elon Musk the power to do great good in the world — and great harm.


The Federal Communications Commission is opening a new space bureau.


The senator is asking the FTC and the DOJ to watch out for Amazon’s, Apple’s, and Google’s moves into your dashboard.


It’s not just Elon Musk who’s impacted by the tumultuous deal.


Meta and the rest aren’t going away, but now they’re big boring companies. Maybe that’s not a terrible thing.

Elon Musk’s former fans have lost faith in the idea of the billionaire genius.


Elon Musk owns your DMs, but he may not be Twitter’s biggest privacy risk.


Musk has tweeted a lot of ideas about how he plans to change Twitter. Here are some of the most significant ones.