The Aporia
The Aporia
59 articles about 28 events for “Elon Musk's Influence and Power”.
“Mega-donors overwhelmingly gave to Republican candidates, including Elon Musk, who spent nearly $450 million, with large sums of that directed at boosting Ken Paxton in Texas, who, by the way, lost to James Talarico.”
“The result is a slap for Elon Musk too, the biggest individual donor in the midterm cycle, who spendt US$446m trying to influence the results (mostly in Texas).”
“But his campaign against Republican Ken Paxton also focused on the cost of living and corruption, including the influence of wealthy donors like Elon Musk, who supported Paxton.”
“Elon Musk set a record for election spending this year after pouring nearly half a billion dollars into backing Republicans in the US midterm elections.”
“Elon Musk, the crypto industry and AI backers together poured hundreds of millions of dollars into key midterm races from Texas to Ohio but came up short.”
“Elon Musk will face scrutiny from Democrats after midterms Elon Musk wasn't on Tuesday's ballot, but he stands to lose a lot from Democrats' sweeping midterm victories in the House and Senate.”
“Take Daily Mail's quiz and find out The largest political donor in US history, Elon Musk, is warning that Democratic victories in the midterms could seal a 'permanent one-party state' and the end of democracy in America.”
“Ahead of the midterm elections, billionaire Elon Musk warned that a Democratic sweep of the White House and Congress in 2028 could spell the "end of democracy," outlining three moves he fears the party would make to cement its political power.”
“Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk backed Republicans on Friday and warned that a Democratic sweep of the US House of Representatives, Senate and presidency in 2028 could lead to what he described as the “end of democracy in any meaningful sense of the word”,…”
“The results will serve as the first nationwide verdict on Trump’s presidency, revealing whether voters want to check the Republican president’s power by giving Democrats control of one or both chambers of Congress or are willing to accept the status quo…”
“The results will serve as the first nationwide verdict on Trump's presidency, revealing whether voters want to check the Republican president's power by giving Democrats control of one or both chambers of Congress or are willing to accept the status quo…”
“If the implications of the Democrats’ triumph for AI and crypto were combined, you’d have to say it hasn’t been a good week for the tech bros - especially Elon Musk.”
““We won the Slaughter case and the Slaughter case gives the president tremendous powers that it never had before,””
“Another senior Administration official says Trump plans to concentrate even more heavily on the Western Hemisphere in the final years of his presidency, where a succession of pro-Trump heads of state have risen to power and where he and his allies see an…”
“Leading the Future and associated PACs were far outspent by pro-safety PACs designed specifically to counter their influence.”
“As a reward for letting Silicon Valley run the country, Elon Musk spent $474 million trying to help Republicans maintain the status quo; super PACs tied to the cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence industries spent roughly $250 million to largely support…”
“That's why this narrative [of Russia's invincibility] is powerful and why it sticks."”
“In the States, a proper Republican drubbing on Tuesday might give the anti-empaths the kind of shock they deserve, but Musk’s power and influence alone shows that it will take a lot more than a single round of election results to really push them back.”
“Elon Musk's SpaceX and Microsoft did not publish policies and Meta's midterm election policy does not mention its Meta AI chatbot.”
“Much of the dark and functionally dark money has come from Super Pacs funded by billionaires, including Elon Musk and Jeff Yass, and corporate interests, particularly the AI and crypto industries.”
“President Donald Trump said he would be willing to protect Elon Musk and his staff if Democrats take control of Congress after the midterm elections this week.”
“The impact of the rise of megadonors such as Tesla founder Elon Musk, and an increase in dark money among the very top donors, on this year’s electoral outcome is hard to quantify.”
“Strip out the 10 biggest – including Elon Musk – and 51 per cent of donations in the second quarter went to the Democrats, up from 36 per cent throughout last year.”
“In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Dan Williams discuss whether AI is a genuinely transformative technology or just another tool, how the temptation to outsource thinking to AI may be eroding the cognitive skills of young people, and why the…”
“As to why Ukrainian forces were suddenly deprived of their previous levels of access to the military-grade version of Elon Musk’s Starlink, the US administration gave conflicting accounts over the rules that govern such systems, and what actually happened.”
“The top Democrats on the House Judiciary and Oversight Committees are demanding that President Donald Trump preserve his conversations with artificial intelligence chatbots as part of an inquiry into whether Elon Musk’s AI system Grok has influenced official…”
“Last week, Elon Musk throttled the speeds of Starlink and Starshield over Ukraine in mid-October, severely disrupting Ukrainian military and defense operations.”
“This was far from the first indication the mailers were a GOP operation; last week, the group that sent them retained a lawyer who has previously represented both Ken Paxton and Elon Musk in high-profile matters.”
“Most of the money from Musk and other donors has flowed not to candidates, but to powerful super PACs representing a variety of different special interests.”
“For their part, Talarico and Hinojosa have focused relentlessly on the cost of living and the outsize political influence of billionaires like Elon Musk, who poured nearly $160 million into Texas to buoy Paxton.”
“The federal government is down more than 420,000 workers after Elon Musk was given the power to introduce massive jobs cuts after donating nearly $300m to Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign.”
“How his political influence compares to past U.S. moguls How powerful is Elon Musk?”
“The explosive growth of data centres, political integrity and the popularity of President Donald Trump himself are under scrutiny in this election cycle, which is on track to be the most expensive in US history, thanks to massive donations by the world’s…”
“Meanwhile, in Texas, Elon Musk is funding an AI-powered robocall campaign that (rather ironically) attacks Democratic US Senate candidate James Talarico for allegedly taking money from "data center special interest" groups, CNN reports.”
“(In October, Elon Musk chipped in $5 million more.) Outside Amarillo, Hinojosa walked the grounds of what is projected to be one of the largest data center campuses in the country—a 7,570-acre complex named for Donald Trump, backed by Rick Perry, and powered…”