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'Profound risk to humanity': Experts call for halt to AI development

Tech leaders such as Elon Musk and Steve Wozniak signed an open letter calling for a pause to AI development over its potential risks.

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Twitter says parts of its source code were leaked online

It's the latest challenge for Twitter under Elon Musk, who also reportedly said the platform is now worth less than half what he paid for.

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Antisemitism 'higher than ever' on Twitter, finds report

Hateful content against Jewish people not only spiked after Elon Musk’s takeover, it has remained elevated ever since, claims the study.

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Twitter told to hire more human content moderators instead of AI

The European Commission is worried about Twitter's goal to use volunteers and artificial intelligence to police content.

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Musk apologises after publicly mocking fired Twitter worker online

Thousands of Twitter employees have been laid off without warning since Elon Musk’s takeover of the company. One high profile layoff led to a surreal exchange on the platform.

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Parts of Twitter down (again) for users after 'internal change'

The issue - the latest in a string of recent outages on the platform - was resolved after an hour, the company said.

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Dilbert creator Scott Adams in the dock over 'racist' rant

Twitter’s CEO Elon Musk has defended Scott Adams, who created the ‘Dilbert’ cartoon in 1989, after he made racist comments on a YouTube video and has been dropped from numerous publications

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Twitter lays off more staff, including ‘hardcore’ Elon Musk loyalists

Elon Musk has slashed Twitter’s workforce by nearly three-quarters since he took over the social media platform last year.

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Elon Musk gave €1.82 billion of Tesla stock to charity last year

The world’s second-richest man and CEO of Twitter has pledged to give away at least half of his wealth by the time he dies.

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Why is Elon Musk's Twitter being sued in Germany?

The organisations behind the lawsuit are hoping this will set an international legal precedent that will help communities around the world keep Twitter accountable

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Twitter logo statue auctioned off for $100,000 as Musk cuts costs

New owner Elon Musk continues to try cutting costs at the company he acquired for $44 billion (€40.6 billion) last year.

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'Time of the Wild West is over,' EU’s Jourová warns Musk from Davos

The EU Commissioner for Values and Transparency discussed the Twitter takeover with Euronews Next at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

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Prospective jurors share various opinions of Elon Musk ahead of trial

A nine-person jury was selected Tuesday to hear a trial that will determine whether Tesla CEO Elon Musk cheated investors with tweets in 2018 saying that he had lined up financing to take the electric automaker private.

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Tate and the Taliban: The most controversial verified Twitter accounts

Even senior Taliban officials got hold of the Twitter blue tick after Elon Musk took over the social media platform.

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Elon Musk breaks record for largest loss of personal fortune

Elon Musk has set a Guinness World Record for the "largest loss of personal fortune in history” following his takeover of Twitter.

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Were Twitter moderators too close to the intelligence community?

Some have questioned whether Twitter users were being unnecessarily censored and whether twitter’s content moderation policy was its own, or whether it was effectively outsourced to the US intelligence community

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Euroviews. Best of Culture 2022: Day 30 - Highs & Lows of the Year

From blue tick impersonators to reinstating Trump, Elon Musk's $44 billion Twitter takeover has sent the social media platform into chaos this year.

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Twitter back online after global outage has thousands complaining

Musk tweeted that "significant backend server architecture changes" had been rolled out and that "Twitter should feel faster".

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Who are Europe's richest people?

Unsurprisingly, some of the richest people in Europe are also the money behind the continent’s most famous brands: L’Oréal, Louis Vuitton, Zara, Chanel and Nutella.

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Tesla becomes worst-performing valuable tech stock of 2022

Elon Musk has sold off about $23 billion worth of Tesla stock this year to finance his Twitter purchase.