All posts tagged: Politics

The AI undressing images are just the beginning

January 12, 2026
by Björn Jeffery
SvD Näringsliv

This analysis was first published in SvD Näringsliv, in Swedish, on January 12th, 2026. This piece was translated from Swedish by Claude. Some phrasing may differ from a human translation. Elon Musk’s company xAI has bigger plans than generating inappropriate images of KD leader Ebba Busch. Now signs are emerging of a merger across Musk’s empire — with Tesla’s robots taking centre stage. We were promised flying cars, but all we got were fake images […]

The clue to what Musk will do next

June 6, 2025
by Björn Jeffery
SvD Näringsliv

This analysis was first published in SvD Näringsliv, in Swedish, on June 6th, 2025. This piece was translated from Swedish by Claude. Some phrasing may differ from a human translation. Is it over between Elon Musk and Donald Trump for good? And what does the fight mean for Tesla? Here we answer four questions about the poisoned situation in the US. Musk has just stepped down from the assignment of leading DOGE, an initiative aimed […]

The high priest behind the DOGE philosophy

February 16, 2025
by Björn Jeffery
SvD Näringsliv

This analysis was first published in SvD Näringsliv, in Swedish, on February 16th, 2025. This piece was translated from Swedish by Claude. Some phrasing may differ from a human translation. Elon Musk is turning Washington DC upside down with DOGE. Behind the idea of running the US like a tech company lies a Silicon Valley philosophy — shaped by a handful of people. In the spring of 2012, a particular document was circulated among entrepreneurs […]

Decision-makers know something we don’t

January 20, 2025
by Björn Jeffery
SvD Näringsliv

This analysis was first published in SvD Näringsliv, in Swedish, on January 20th, 2025. This piece was translated from Swedish by Claude. Some phrasing may differ from a human translation. TikTok is banned — and permitted again a few hours later. The law says one thing and the incoming president says another. But both American and Chinese decision-makers have one thing in common: they know something we don’t. “TikTok is definitely a threat to national […]

Trump’s victory gives Musk the full payoff

November 6, 2024
by Björn Jeffery
SvD Näringsliv

Elon Musk bet everything on Trump — and is now more powerful than ever Published in Svenska Dagbladet, 2024-11-06. Translated from Swedish. The world’s richest man played an extraordinarily high-stakes political game. Elon Musk bet everything on red — and won. Now comes the payoff. They were not always close friends, the two most talked-about billionaires in America. In the summer of 2022, Donald Trump’s re-election campaign was already under way, and from a podium […]

Apple exposes the powerlessness of politics

March 25, 2021
by Björn Jeffery
SvD Näringsliv

This column was first published in SvD Näringsliv, in Swedish, on March 25th, 2021. This piece was translated from Swedish by Claude. Some phrasing may differ from a human translation. The EU and the US are currently getting ready to regulate the digital world. But Apple’s latest giant reform shows that the tech giants still rule almost unrestricted in their market, writes Björn Jeffery. Those who waited to hear about the EU and the “game of […]

“When we draw lines and build walls between people everyone loses”

January 31, 2017
by Björn Jeffery
Medium

I promised a second post about the App Store charts and that is coming. But over the past days it has become clear that standing up this madness can’t wait. I wrote a statement about it at Toca Boca because it goes against so much of what we believe in. Quoted below: From Toca Boca’s founding and forward we have made digital toys for kids all over the world. We intentionally design products that work […]