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Thursday, December 18, 2025
TopicElon Musk

Topic: Elon Musk

X hit with $140 million EU fine for breaching content rules, TikTok settles

Washington: Elon Musk's social media company X was fined 120 million euros ($140 million) by EU tech regulators on Friday for breaching EU online...

5 explosive predictions that Elon Musk made on Nikhil Kamath’s podcast

He sketched a future where labour fades out, money loses meaning, nation-states dissolve, and universities survive mainly as status symbols.

Elon Musk’s microblogging platform X faces global outage, says Downdetector

There were over 5,600 reports of issues with the social media platform, as of 06:51 am ET, according to Downdetector.

Elon Musk offers lofty promises after $1 trillion Tesla payday

The leader of SpaceX even went so far as to predict that Tesla’s robot, called Optimus, and vehicles will “play a big role” in someday establishing bases on the moon and Mars.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX pitches for accelerated moon landing plan after NASA pressure

The company’s decision to offer a new plan comes after NASA acting administrator Sean Duffy said he was opening up SpaceX’s lunar contract to rivals.

Is Grokipedia really a neutral Wikipedia? Elon Musk wants you to believe it

The Washington Post, while noting that Grok shares similarities with Wikipedia, writes that its functioning is more 'opaque'—and in certain cases, more Right-leaning.

After Tesla entry, Elon Musk’s Starlink prepares for retail kickoff in India

Starlink’s India entry would help SpaceX compensate for being shut out of China, where the government has kept the market closed to foreign operators.

Centre cuts officials’ power to order content takedowns after legal row with Musk’s X

Bengaluru: The Indian government has reduced the number of officials who can order content to be taken down from the internet, a move that...

‘Faceless firm taking refuge under unbridled freedom’: Why HC junked X plea against govt’s Sahyog portal

Sahyog portal 'beacon of cooperation' between citizen & intermediary, Karnataka HC said, adding that it's a mechanism through which state endeavours to combat menace of cybercrime.

Karnataka HC junks X’s legal challenge to Modi govt’s content removal mechanism

X-owner Elon Musk has clashed with authorities in several countries over compliance & content takedown demands. HC ruled the platform had a duty of accountability & must follow local laws.

On Camera

Opposition must debate utility, provisions of VB-GRAMG. Look beyond the name

Opposition parties are fixated on the argument that the government has deliberately removed MK Gandhi’s name from the Act. The real provisions in the Bill are barely being discussed.

Steady growth rooted in ‘Dravidian model’. How Tamil Nadu more than doubled its GSDP in 10 yrs

RBI Handbook of Statistics shows state’s GSDP has more than doubled in past decade, finishing second behind Maharashtra. It has performed well across health & education parameters as well.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.