Sam Bankman-Fried testifies before the Senate Agriculture Committee on crypto. | Getty Images The one-time crypto darling didn’t have much to do with Democrats’ midterms performance. Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced former CEO of the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, has another...
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“I think he’s battling with his own self”: Inside Elon Musk’s brain
Elon Musk at SXSW, March 2018. | FilmMagic for HBO Musk biographer Ashlee Vance explains why Twitter isn’t Tesla or SpaceX. It was easy to predict that Elon Musk’s first few weeks as Twitter’s owner would be a mess. But...
How to watch NASA’s Artemis 1 launch
Christina Animashaun/Vox After several delays, NASA hopes to finally launch the Artemis 1 mission and return to the moon. After several delays and some minor hurricane damage, NASA is planning to launch the Artemis 1 mission and jumpstart its program...
How did Sam Bankman-Fried happen?
Sam Bankman-Fried, chief executive officer of FTX, a cryptocurrency exchange he founded in 2019, is pictured in New York in August. | Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg via Getty Images He was a billionaire who had quickly amassed political and philanthropic influence. What...
What the hell is going on at Twitter
Elon Musk has been making major changes to Twitter’s workforce, company culture, and product roadmap after buying the company in late October. | Patrick Pleul/AFP via Getty Images Mass layoffs, trolling, and check marks: How Elon Musk is running Twitter....
Maybe Trump was right about TikTok
Amanda Northrop/Vox No matter who controls Congress, TikTok’s in trouble. Here’s something you rarely hear a Democratic senator say: “Donald Trump was right.” But that’s what Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) is saying now, and it’s all because of TikTok, the...
What you need to know about Elon’s inner circle at Twitter
Dion Lee/Vox, Getty Images Inside Elon’s war room. As Elon Musk carries out his chaotic early days as Twitter’s new CEO — slashing staff, trolling employees and users alike, and freaking out advertisers — you might wonder, who is this...
Elon Musk, master businessman, can’t make up his mind
So far, Musk seems better at breaking Twitter than fixing it. | Twitter account of Elon Musk/AFP via Getty Images All the times Twitter’s Chief Flip-Flopper has gone back on his word. Since Elon Musk first offered to buy Twitter...
Billionaires are a dual-use technology
Elon Musk attends Heidi Klum’s 2022 Halloween Party on October 31, 2022, in New York. | Taylor Hill/Getty Images Ultra-wealth gives someone like Elon Musk the power to do great good in the world — and great harm. The thing...
The ridiculous but important Twitter check mark fiasco, explained
New Twitter owner Elon Musk has a blue check. Maybe you will soon, too! (For $8 a month.) | Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images Hours after Musk started offering paid check marks, tweets from fake “verified” accounts flooded the platform....