By Blake Montgomery
Publication Date: 2025-12-23 17:03:00
Hello and welcome to TechScape. I’m your host, Blake Montgomery, wishing you a happy and healthy end of the year. I have a cold myself.
Today we look back at the biggest tech stories of 2025 – Elon Musk’s political rise, breakthrough and fall; the takeover of the global economy, all other technologies, and even the topography of the Earth by artificial intelligence; Australia’s Notable Social Media Ban; the new Trump policies on the tech industry; and, as a treat, a glimpse of the apocalypse offered by one of Silicon Valley’s smartest and strangest billionaires.
Elon Musk, a one-man hurricane
At the end of 2024, I wrote that Elon Musk’s support for Donald Trump had made him the most powerful unelected man in the world. In 2025, his reign was short-lived. He rose quickly…
