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From Tesla to Trump, Elon Musk had a very busy 2024

The past 12 months have been packed for the world’s wealthiest person as he has juggled Tesla, X, Neuralink, SpaceX and relations with Donald Trump – has it been a success?

By Chris Stokel-Walker

16 December 2024

Elon Musk speaks at a campaign rally in October 2024

Campaigning for Donald Trump seems to have paid off for Elon Musk

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It has been a typically chaotic 12 months for Elon Musk. The world’s richest person has been pulled from one direction to another in the running of his many companies – with mixed results.

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How this moment for AI will change society forever (and how it won't)

There is no doubt that the latest advances in artificial intelligence from OpenAI, Google, Baidu and others are more impressive than what came before, but are we in just another bubble of AI hype?

Musk’s only publicly traded…

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