Elon Musk, AI and the antichrist: the biggest tech stories of 2025

A look back at the biggest tech stories of the year, from the rise and fall of Musk’s Doge to lucrative investments into AI

Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m your host, Blake Montgomery, wishing you a happy and healthy end of the year. I myself have a cold.

Today, we are looking back at the biggest stories in tech of 2025 – Elon Musk’s political rise, burst, and fall; artificial intelligence’s subsumption of the global economy, all other technology, and even the Earth’s topography; Australia’s remarkable social media ban; the tech industry’s new Trumpian politics; and, as a treat, a glimpse of the apocalypse offered by one of Silicon Valley’s savviest and strangest billionaires.

How an obscure US government office has become a target of Elon Musk

How Elon Musk’s billionaire Doge lieutenant took over the US’s biggest MDMA company | Technology | The Guardian

The chaos Elon Musk and Doge are leaving behind in Washington

Eggings, swastikas and dog poop: Tesla bears brunt of people’s ire against Musk

‘I’m selling the Nazi mobile’: Tesla owners offload cars after Musk’s fascist-style salutes

Inside Elon Musk’s plan to rain SpaceX’s rocket debris over Hawaii’s pristine waters

Elon Musk’s SpaceX ‘preparing for flotation that could value it at over $1tn’