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The opening shot in the war against WhatsApp: Musk launches XChat

The promises of upgrading the DM within the social network have turned into a standalone messaging app that will try to compete with Meta’s dominance.

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Elon Musk's AI platform, Grok

Tennessee plaintiffs, including minors sue Elon Musk’s AI company over Grok sexual content

After an outcry over sexually explicit content generated by the chatbot, xAI said in January that it had blocked all users from editing images of "real people in revealing clothing."

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RAIN FALLS on the National Endowment for the Humanities building (NEH) on April 11, 2025 in Washington, DC.

Lawsuit says DOGE used ChatGPT to tag Jewish-themed humanities grants ‘DEI’ before canceling them

The methodology contributed to the cancellation of National Endowment for the Humanities grants to study violence against women during the Holocaust, postwar Soviet Jewish literature, and more.

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The countdown clock for the launch of NASA's Artemis II Space Launch System (SLS) rocket is seen near the massive Vehicle Assembly building at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on February 20, 2026.

NASA shakes up moon program with Artemis test mission before astronaut lunar landing

Planned for 2027, the new mission comes as the US aims to establish regular lunar missions, a long-awaited follow-up to its first moon missions in the Apollo program, which ended in 1972.

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'Jews run society, women need to shut up': MAGA supporters clash over Nick Fuentes's extremism

Fuentes’s online rehabilitation began when Musk reinstated his account on X/Twitter in May.

NOVEMBER 9, 2025ByELI LEON
NICK FUENTES told Tucker Carlson (right) that ‘organized Jewry’ represents the ‘big challenge’ to American unity, and he invoked ‘blood-and-soil’ to describe Zionism, the terminology that underpinned Nazi Germany, says the writer.

New York seeks dismissal of lawsuit by Elon Musk's X/Twitter over hate speech law

Musk's company argued that New York's law unconstitutionally exposed it to lawsuits and big fines unless it disclosed "highly sensitive and controversial speech" that the state found objectionable.

NOVEMBER 4, 2025ByREUTERS
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In the home stretch: Tesla approaches completion of its humanoid robot production

A large order of linear actuators from China indicates that Elon Musk’s Optimus humanoid robot V3 is nearly complete, with preparations for mass production starting soon.

OCTOBER 30, 2025ByDR. ITAY GAL
Approaching the production line. Optimus.

WhatsApp, YouTube, and Facebook: What are the most popular apps used in Israel in 2025?

In 2025, the Index also measured the public's use of artificial intelligence services, particularly large language models (AI chatbots), which have become widely accessible.

OCTOBER 26, 2025ByYINON BEN SHUSHAN
Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram apps are seen on a smartphone in this illustration taken, July 13, 2021

In final interview, Jane Goodall said she wanted to send Netanyahu on a one-way trip to space

Others aboard her imaginary spaceship were Elon Musk, Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and Xi Jinping.

OCTOBER 7, 2025ByGRACE GILSON/JTA
Jane Goodall speaks during the annual Bloomberg Philanthropies Global Forum in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., September 24, 2025.

Elon Musk becomes first person to hit $500 billion net worth, Forbes list shows

The milestone comes just under a year after Musk's net worth crossed $400 billion and underscores his lead as the world's richest person.

OCTOBER 2, 2025ByREUTERS
Elon Musk speaks during a press conference with U.S. President Donald Trump (not pictured), at the White House in Washington, D.C., US, May 30, 2025.

FBI cuts ties with Jewish Anti-Defamation League, director Kash Patel announces

Patel's announcement followed criticism of the ADL by right-wing voices, including billionaire Elon Musk, over its inclusion of Kirk's Turning Point USA in a "Glossary of Extremism and Hate."

OCTOBER 2, 2025ByMICHAEL STARR
FBI Director Kash Patel attends the signing of an executive order by US President Donald Trump, at the White House in Washington, DC, US, September 25, 2025.

X is among most effective tools for spreading antisemitism in history, research finds

The research identified 679,584 antisemitic posts between February 1, 2024 and January 31, 2025, which combined were viewed 193 million times.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2025ByMATHILDA HELLER
'X' logo is seen on the top of the headquarters of the messaging platform X, formerly known as Twitter, in downtown San Francisco, California, U.S., July 30, 2023.

Elon Musk calls ADL a ‘hate group’ that ‘hates Christians’

The South African-American multibillionaire has a history of lashing out against the Anti-Defamation League.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2025ByASAF ELIA-SHALEV/JTA
Elon Musk delivers a salute at a Trump immigration rally. Inset: Musk's Holocaust joke post.

Tesla Stock: Pump and Dump

SEPTEMBER 28, 2025ByISAAC KAPLAN
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