Meta, the tech giant with a market capitalization of over $1.8 trillion, is spending heavily this election on obscure state legislative races — eager to defuse what is the biggest regulatory threat to...

The slick voter registration website, currently being promoted to millions of people, is a digital surveillance machine.

A nonprofit backed by tech oligarchs is spending tens of millions of dollars to convince voters to stop worrying and love data centers.

Elon Musk has suddenly returned to warning that climate change is a pressing existential threat.

On Tuesday, Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry (R) announced an agreement allowing SpaceX to construct the world’s largest launch facility on top of a stretch of coastal wetlands that provide vital habita...

Vivek Ramaswamy, a billionaire and the Republican nominee in Ohio’s gubernatorial race, served as the frontman for a dubious pharmaceutical company and then cashed out weeks before its dramatic crash.

When it peaked in mid-June, Elon Musk’s net worth was valued at more than $1.3 trillion, making his individual wealth greater than the combined fortunes of Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page, Ser...

Meta’s smart glasses armed with discreet cameras, combined with its video sharing platform, have created a powerful toolkit for seedy men to record, disseminate, and monetize videos of themselves hara...

In Ohio, Republican gubernatorial nominee Vivek Ramaswamy — himself a multibillionaire — is getting a financial boost from a roster of fellow billionaires.

“It’d be wonderful for the United States to have a national set of rules for autonomous driving”

Less than four months after being found liable for building addictive design elements into Instagram, Meta is developing plans to lace its platforms with a novel gambling feature: a prediction market ...

Over the last few weeks, the Trump administration has taken unprecedented actions directly benefiting Elon Musk’s SpaceX, including handing over hundreds of acres of public land from a critical wildli...

Beware of tech bros bearing gifts

Over the last year, Elon Musk has developed a fascination with a 24-year-old podcaster and YouTuber from Pennsylvania who claimed he communicated “with God about what he believes the future of the rig...

“Nolan is racist towards White people, especially Greeks.”

The Washington Post editorial board's case against California's wealth tax falls apart under scrutiny

Meta, along with other social media companies, is facing thousands of lawsuits alleging that they have pushed a defective product onto adolescents.

A Peter Thiel-funded startup launched this month will use an “AI jury” to “subject the media’s claims to systematic investigation and judgment.” That same system of AI adjudication assigns a numerical...

xAI is draining millions of gallons from the Memphis drinking water supply. Musk's promised fix has been delayed indefinitely.

With health care costs rising and more Americans losing their insurance, the leading artificial intelligence companies are selling an alternative to the public: chatbots.

During a 2018 press conference at Kennedy Space Center, Elon Musk called for “a new space race,” one defined not by nations but by rival billionaires scrambling to commercialize and colonize the final...

Mark Zuckerberg is a uniquely disliked figure in American life.

Human life is nothing more than a starter program for artificial superintelligence.

The Bezos Earth Fund is focused on selling artificial intelligence — the technology driving Amazon's rising carbon emissions — as the solution to the climate crisis

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg closed a deal last week to purchase a $170 million mansion on Indian Creek, an island in Miami, Florida.

In the aftermath of Donald Trump’s second presidential victory, his media supporters began asserting that America had entered a new, definitively conservative cultural era.

The Department of Justice’s (DOJ) release of millions of files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein included thousands of mentions of prominent billionaires.

Over the last year, Meta’s AI smart glasses have been used by deviant men to surreptitiously record videos of women and children.

Over the weekend, Elon Musk, the centibillionaire CEO of SpaceX, announced a sudden revision to his long-stated dream of building a human city on Mars.

Musk has downplayed the relationship. Emails between the two men paint a different picture.

Across America, billionaires and their minions are working to defeat a proposed ballot measure in California that would marginally tax the assets of the ultra-rich.

​​Earlier this month, Elon Musk’s top political advisor, Chris Young, scheduled a meeting with Red Oak Strategic, a Republican analytics firm known for working with establishment conservative politica...

Jeff Yass, a right-wing megadonor and the 28th richest person in the world, is buying up large swaths of the town of Gladwyne, Pennsylvania.

To power its sprawling Colossus supercomputer facility in Memphis, Tennessee, xAI, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, has polluted the air of a number of historic Black neighborhoods, which ...

Over the past year and a half, OpenAI has steadily gained legitimacy among legacy media companies, signing content deals with publishers to feed material to ChatGPT and its other generative artificial...

Over the last 12 years, Elon Musk and Tesla have secured hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to help grow their business, while making numerous commitments to state and local governments that oft...

Former right-wing Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández was pardoned by Donald Trump earlier this week, cutting short a 45-year sentence he was serving for conspiring to traffic 500 tons of cocain...

Records obtained by Oligarch Watch reveal that the facility relies on Chinese transformers, creating a major security vulnerability.

Should billionaire Jared Isaacman successfully navigate his second nomination process to lead NASA, his top policy priority would be to beat China in a race to send astronauts back to the moon.

During the 2024 election cycle, Elon Musk funneled $19.2 million into congressional elections using America PAC, a political action committee he created to back Republican candidates.

On Friday, Elon Musk appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast and falsely claimed that the government shutdown was a dispute over blue states diverting billions of dollars in fraudulent federal pa...

With Tesla reporting a 37% quarterly dip in its net income last week, chief executive Elon Musk appeared focused on anything but the automaker’s vehicle sales.

Once a leading liberal voice in tech, billionaire Marc Benioff has shifted his support to President Trump, following the lead of many of his peers in Silicon Valley.

Maybe he should ask his ex-wife.

The push to ban TikTok in the U.S. began with allegations that it was undermining the Israeli government. It now seems poised to end with tech oligarch Larry Ellison, a close ally of Israeli Prime Min...

Last week, OpenAI presented its plans to build $1 trillion of artificial intelligence infrastructure, including sprawling data centers across the U.S.

In the near future, Larry Ellison, an 81-year-old tech oligarch, could be in control of one of the world's most powerful media empires.

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company is seeking to expand its work for the government, including securing contracts involving the country's most sensitive national security information.

A think tank with ties to right-wing billionaires Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and Charles Koch, the Foundation for American Innovation (FAI), is pushing a radical plan to replace large swaths of the feder...