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This year, the big, unexpected headliner was X and Tesla owner and free speech proponent Elon Musk, who zoomed into town for a talk on everything from the potential for global AI disaster to an explanation for why he told advertisers to “go fuck themselves” last year.
Caroline Frost navigated one of the longest queues I’ve ever seen for a conference talk — her video footage on our WhatsApp group is quite something — and managed to bag a spot in the Palais des Festivals main hall to hear the human social media catnip talk.
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