The PayPal founder is probably the most influential figure in the technology industry in decades. He spreads conspiracy theories, but he is not an eccentric divorced from reality: he saw Trump’s rise before almost anyone else, and he is behind the career of Vice President J. D. Vance. And his defense and espionage company, Palantir, has signed contracts with governments around the world
Bill Clinton’s labor secretary sees the midterms as an opportunity for Democrats to begin repaying their debt to the working class
The winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics warns of Silicon Valley’s fascist drift and says that if Trump wins the midterm elections, it will be the end of American democracy
The Michigan politician, who has shaken up the campaign with his progressive platform and hopes to become the first Muslim US senator, responds in EL PAÍS to Republican attacks: ‘They want a smaller country, but I want there to be room for all of us’
The economist contributed to the Global Justice Project report and argues that the fight to reduce global inequality cannot be addressed without measures to combat climate change
Data from Elon Musk’s communications network helps Ukrainian forces intercept Russian projectiles more effectively and carry out precision strikes along the front line. Europe has no comparable alternative
Experts foresee more qualitative changes than quantitative ones despite the industry’s own catastrophic predictions, and they warn of rising inequality, with a gap ‘between top‑tier jobs with multimillion dollar paychecks and low‑level jobs with miserable wages’
SpaceX is focused on its giant Starship rocket to expand the Starlink network and deploy orbital AI data centers, rather than on returning humans to the Moon or launching satellites for other customers
A moment on the White House lawn next to Donald Trump can feel eternal: the president humiliated some of the planet’s richest and most powerful figures
The 41-year-old captain’s decision to leave the national team training camp appears to have brought an end to an era in which the star player was overhyped at the expense of Portugal’s collective performance in two World Cups
‘No fatties, no trannies, no beardos, no weirdos, no whimps, no radicals,’ the defense secretary said regarding those who should not be part of the armed forces he envisions
The Chinese president called on Washington and Beijing to explore new paths of cooperation between the two powers
The industry is the top donor in the midterm elections, with tens of millions for various candidates in the expectation Trump will maintain his support for the sector
The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget estimates the potential cost of the plan at $1.2 trillion
The new chief executive takes over from Tim Cook, who will continue to lead diplomatic relations from the executive chair
Democrats hold a polling lead ahead of the November ballot amid voter discontent over high prices and the war with Iran
The German group aims to return to profitability with its restructuring plan, while the Japanese company maintains its leadership in the first half of the year thanks to its focus on hybrid cars
The far-right party had the backing of Elon Musk, who, along with other MAGA figures, has celebrated the historic results in Saxony-Anhalt
The founder of Unitree went from tinkering with homemade motors in a small town in Zhejiang to selling more bipedal robots than anyone else in the world
There's no need to move fast, break things, or move to Mars
The expert is stepping away from teaching after a lifetime spent researching and writing about Franco, the Spanish Civil War and the violence of the 20th century. He warns that the values forged in the aftermath of World War II and in rejection of its atrocities are beginning to erode. The danger, he argues, comes not only from fascism but also from a technological oligarchy that may undermine society’s ability to agree on what is true
The US president has surrounded himself with investment bankers and business executives who have amassed great wealth
In the Asian country, there has been a rise in sexually explicit deepfakes on social media, causing significant emotional and social harm to the victims
In 2024, Trump gained 12 points compared with 2020 by capturing 48% of the Latino vote at the national level. A year and a half after his return to the White House, that support has eroded considerably
The launch of Meta’s new smart specs that feature an integrated camera has sparked a global campaign to discredit one of the company’s breakout consumer products
The platform marks two decades of existence with more users than in the blue-bird era, despite evidence of its contribution to global disinformation
A group of corporate power brokers is responsible for the democratic collapse we are witnessing on a global scale. Through their algorithms, they have managed to trap citizens in a mire of information overload and misinformation, while political leaders improvise in response to each new crisis. When business practices carry an unacceptable moral and human cost, they must be abolished. We did it with child labor. And with slavery
