Philosopher, essayist and columnist, she teaches philosophy at Sapienza Università di Roma. Donatella Di Cesare (Rome, 1956) has been fighting against the extreme right for years in all areas, including the media and the streets. She is not afraid, even though she had to have police escort due to threats received from fascist and neo-Nazi groups. Among other works, she has published Heidegger y los judíos (2017), Tortura (2018), Terrorismo. Una guerra civil global (2017), Marranos (2019) and Sobre la vocación política de la filosofía (2020), translated into Spanish by Gedisa. In Catalan, she has just published Tecnofeixisme. La suspensió tàcita de la política (Arcàdia). With translation by Coral Romà, the book reflects on how totalitarian forms of government are being imposed worldwide and how the power of the people is being reduced.

The war has begun and Elon Musk has fired first. The mega IPO of SpaceX, the all-encompassing technology company of the world's richest man, has opened the doors of Wall Street to generative AI. Although it is known for its rockets and defense contracts, SpaceX has housed xAI since February of this year, the company within the South African's conglomerate that manages its consumer artificial intelligence, the chatbot integrated into the X social network, Grok. Musk's public offering sets the path for the rest of the sector: a historically high capitalization target —$1.75 trillion— and billions raised to add to the immense computing investments that will be needed to cover growing demand. Following behind are Anthropic, the creator of Claude, which has the fourth quarter marked in red, and OpenAI, of ChatGPT, which left behind the legal problems with Musk and already has a clear path to join the New York stock exchange.

Elon Musk is preparing a new operation to shake up Wall Street. SpaceX, his aerospace company, revealed its IPO prospectus this Wednesday. Just hours after the judicial defeat against OpenAI founder Sam Altman, the richest man in the world seeks to achieve two unprecedented milestones: SpaceX's would be the largest initial public offering (IPO) in history, through which it hopes to raise around 80 billion dollars; and the firm would become the first in history to assault the market with a total valuation exceeding one trillion dollars.

They were soulmates, but in recent weeks they have fought a battle in court with daggers drawn and the future of the artificial intelligence sector at stake. Elon Musk sued Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI – the company that created ChatGPT – because he believed that the planned stock market launch contravened the foundational principle according to which the entity was to operate on a non-profit basis, prioritizing the benefit of humanity over private economic gain. A California court, however, has dismissed this claim after only two hours of deliberation.

An old adage advises joining the enemy if you cannot beat them. In terms of compolIf the enemy's values ​​are better than yours, get closer. And if your own values ​​bother you, apply them to the enemy. Thus, the classical right has sidelined its key concepts—order, property, family, etc.—in order to appropriate the term freedomAlthough for two centuries this magic word has guided all revolutions against the old regime. First, it was appropriated by the liberals, in the name of laissez faire economic. And now they're doing it. libertarians, Trump's followers, who obviously have nothing to do with old libertarian anarchism, but with hatred of the state in the face of the market, erected as guarantor of the rights of individuals.

There has been talk of a new Dark Age. The political power of states is declining. The large conglomerates of the new digital and financial economy are extending their reach ever further and have begun to penetrate the political arena. Is it Trump who has empowered the tech magnates in his second term as US president, or are the techno-oligarchs the ones who put him in power? Who can stop them? The new global ideological framework is democracy versus authoritarianism. And the battle is being fought largely on social media.

Accustomed to living in a hostile environment since his arrival on the political front lines, Pedro Sánchez has developed undeniable adaptability skills. He always has a trick up his sleeve when it seems that the multiple crises his government has had to face have him on the ropes. He is a master of surprise, but, moreover, like Johan Cruyff on the Barça bench, he has a silver spoon in his mouth. How else can one explain that the world's leading tech gurus have fallen head over heels for the Moncloa strategy? First Elon Musk (X) and then Pavel Durov (Telegram). They have gone for the jugular of the Spanish presidentHe once announced that he would prohibit access to social media for those under 16. And Sánchez hasn't even bothered to hide his satisfaction at having struck a nerve.Let the techno-oligarchs bark, Sancho, it's a sign that we're riding."," he wrote precisely on social media (a phrase, by the way, that doesn't appear on the Quixote(although many – it seems Sánchez included – attribute it to himself).

Elon Musk's insults directed at Pedro Sánchez suggest that someone in the Moncloa Palace is skillfully doing their job. That the prime minister of a country that is not currently part of the G-20 and wouldn't be among the top players in what is now called "medium powersKnowing how to provoke Trump and Musk is no small feat.

Goods at the port of Barcelona have been blocked for fifteen days now. They won't start leaving for northern Europe until tomorrow., the day on which the famous Rubí tunnel is expected to open, although not for all hours of the day.

The government of Pedro Sánchez has announced a ban on social media for those under 16. This move, while raising the stakes, follows similar announcements made by France (15 years old) and Portugal (13 years old). Australia has also set the age at 16. On the one hand, this sends a message to technology platforms, forcing them to take responsibility for content. On the other, it aims to impact families, making them aware of the danger their children face, among whom use and addiction continue to rise.

The French judicial investigation into the social network X, owned by American magnate Elon Musk, is progressing a year after it began. The cybercrime unit of the Paris Prosecutor's Office searched the platform's French headquarters—formerly Twitter—on Tuesday, along with the French Gendarmerie's national cybersecurity unit and Europol, as part of an investigation opened in January 2025 into the alleged bias of some of its algorithms. Months later, the investigation expanded to include alleged crimes related to the artificial intelligence program used by X, Grok. The program is accused of facilitating the dissemination of AI-generated videos of a sexual nature—so-called deepfakes- using images of real people - mostly women - without consent, including images of minors. French authorities are also investigating Grok for the alleged dissemination of Holocaust denial ideas.

Clash on social media between Elon Musk and Irene Montero: the tech magnate has accused the Podemos MEP of being a "genocidal maniac." She responded by calling on "decent people" to "replace" the billionaire – who has appeared in the Epstein files– so that she stops “raping” and “killing.” However, it all began with statements by the left-wing leader in which she defended the extraordinary regularization of migrants in Spain.

The nudity in Grok has become a symbol of a trend that goes far beyond a specific controversy. The ability to generate sexualized images of real women and girls, facilitated by an architecture designed to deliberately circumvent boundaries, is neither an accident nor a one-off excess. It is the coherent result of a type of artificial intelligence that we have been promoting and celebrating for years.

This Wednesday, during the World Economic Forum in DavosElon Musk has asserted that a large solar power plant located in sparsely populated areas of Spain or Sicily could generate enough energy to power all of Europe. According to the entrepreneur, the necessary facilities are technologically feasible and simply need to be implemented. Musk cited China as an example, where solar plants already produce 540 gigawatts (GW) annually.

Tesla CEO and X Corp chairman Elon Musk, owner of the former Twitter social network, has launched a full-blown war with Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary. The world's richest man is furious that O'Leary ruled out installing Starlink satellite internet's Wi-Fi connection on planes. Musk has taken to social media to ask if he should buy Ryanair to fire O'Leary. He did so through a poll titled "Should I buy Ryanair and put someone who's actually named Ryan in charge?" This is the same strategy, or a very similar one, to the one Musk used when he wanted to buy X, which he ultimately did: he acquired the social network for around $44 billion. Financial TimesIt all started with an interview on Irish radio station Newstalk, where O'Leary declared that Musk "knows nothing about airplanes." He added that this high-speed satellite connection would cost $250 million (€213 million), which his passengers wouldn't be willing to pay.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer issued an unequivocal warning to Elon Musk on Monday night: if Musk is unable to control his artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok, the British government will do so "swiftly" and with the full force of the law. "If you profit from harm and abuse, you lose the right to self-regulate," he said. premier during a meeting with the Labour group in the House of Commons. It is, so far, Downing Street's toughest clash with the tycoon, who immediately accused London, via his social media, of "looking for any excuse" to exercise censorship.

There's a certain sense of a return to cruelty in the air. I'm not talking about a widespread collective psychological shift, although that could be the long-term consequence, but rather that cruelty is being politically sanctioned. Many common threads can be found among the leaders of the new right, but perhaps one of the most palpable is that they all speak and act in a way that clearly gives us permission to be cruel. Cruel to the losers of capitalism, who deserve it for being lazy, and cruel to other races and cultures, because they have a way of being that is bad and irreconcilable with our own. Now that most political thinkers say we are entering a post-liberal era, it seems pertinent to remember that a preoccupation with cruelty is perhaps the most distinctive feature of liberalism.

The Spanish National Securities Market Commission (CNMV) has decided to fine X (formerly Twitter) €5 million for a very serious infraction. Specifically, the social network failed to cooperate when the agency requested information about advertisements for "financial scams" published on its platform, as reported this Thursday by the newspaper. Official State Gazette (BOE).

Tesla shareholders have approved paying the company's CEO, Elon Musk, a package of company shares valued at one trillion – that is, one million million or 10¹²—dollars. The electric car multinational's annual shareholders' meeting approved this payment as compensation to Musk—who is now the richest person in the world—but it will only materialize if the company reaches a series of sales and profit targets.

In Sweden, 65 car mechanics have been on strike for two years against the electric vehicle company Tesla, owned by the world's richest man, Elon Musk. The strike is the longest in the Nordic country in the last 100 years and represents the first and only strike in the world against a company owned by the billionaire who recently stepped down as Donald Trump's right-hand man in the White House.