2025: The Year in Review
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2025: The Year in Review
"At an inauguration-related event for President Donald Trump, Elon Musk throws a straight-armed gesture largely interpreted as a Nazi salute. In follow-up comments, Musk failed to put the controversy to rest by deriding critics and neglecting to issue an apology, leaving his intent ambiguous. Silicon Valley ❤️ MAGA Facebook decides to dispense with third-party fact checkers. Instead, it will rely completely on "Community Notes" to identify and contextualize misinformation."
"It also donated $22 million to Trump's presidential library and paid $3 million to the president-elect's lawyers to settle a lawsuit over the suspension of Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts after the attempted coup on Jan. 6, 2021. The CEOs of Alphabet, Meta and X sit in the front row at the inauguration. Rolling Deep Nvidia loses nearly $600 billion in market value, as Chinese artificial intelligence chat engine DeepSeek jolts the market with a low-cost, high-quality knockoff."
Elon Musk made a straight-armed gesture at a Trump inauguration-related event that was largely interpreted as a Nazi salute; he derided critics and did not apologize, leaving his intent ambiguous. Facebook dispensed with third-party fact checkers and chose to rely completely on "Community Notes" to identify and contextualize misinformation. Facebook donated $22 million to Trump's presidential library and paid $3 million to settle a lawsuit over the suspension of Trump's accounts after Jan. 6, 2021, while CEOs of Alphabet, Meta and X attended the inauguration. Nvidia lost nearly $600 billion in market value after Chinese AI chat engine DeepSeek released a low-cost, high-quality knockoff. X settled its lawsuit over Trump's suspended account for $10 million. Alef Aeronautics released footage of a wobbly Model A flying-car test flight, displayed a prototype, and announced a 100 percent electric vehicle priced at $300,000 with a 200-mile driving range and up to 110 miles flying range on a charge; critics derided the craft.
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