Tesla CEO and former White House adviser Elon Musk on Wednesday weighed in on legislation that would require ID and proof of citizenship to register to vote, warning that democracy could be at risk if the legislation isn’t enacted.

European authorities stepped up the pressure on Elon Musk’s X on Tuesday – with French law enforcement raiding the company’s Paris office and UK authorities announcing a fresh probe on the “potential” for X’s Grok AI tool “to produce harmful sexualised image and video content.

As with SpaceX, then, Mr Musk is gambling Tesla’s future on AI, and his belief that he can harness his existing businesses to dominate the technology. Plenty of doubters have scoffed at his grand ambitions before. But never has Mr Musk put so much on the line. ■

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The raid is linked to a year-long investigation into suspected abuse of algorithms and fraudulent data extraction by X or its executives.

Prosecutors in Paris said they asked Elon Musk to appear for questioning after searching X's offices in as part of a probe into sexual deepfakes.

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Elon Musk has hit back at a police raid on X's French offices and investigation into accusations that his social media platform manipulates its algorithms and data feeds as well as concerns over the content produced by its AI tool Grok.

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