Elon Musk initially pledged to cut some $2 trillion from the federal budget, alongside his DOGE partner, politician Vivek Ramaswamy.

A video shared on Facebook purports to show a robot cutting Tesla CEO and owner of X, Elon Musk’s hair. Screenshot captured via Facebook Verdict: False An artificial intelligence (AI) expert denied the video’s authenticity in an email to Check Your Fact.

Elon Musk teetered back and forth with Jeff Bezos for the title of the richest person in the world. One day it was Musk, the next it was Bezos and sometimes the gap between them seemed razor-thin. But today,

Elon Musk is “an opponent of free speech” and should be “held to account”, Sir Ed Davey has said, as the row between the billionaire and British politicians continued.

Elon Musk is being investigated in Europe amid concerns the billionaire's influence, for instance through his posts on X, constitutes an "interference" in upcoming elections. Newsweek has contacted Musk via the press office of X, the social media platform he owns, formerly known as Twitter, for comment via email.

Musk's escalating criticism and mocking of European leaders and governments, which he has done repeatedly via X, the social media platform he owns, has sparked a backlash from

Elon Musk has said that if his Doge department is successful in combating inflation, it could drive down the price of bitcoin, dogecoin and other major

Elon Musk told the political strategist Mark Penn that if DOGE tried to cut $2 trillion, it'd have a "good shot" of ending up at $1 trillion.

OpenAI launched a for-profit subsidiary a year later in order to raise outside capital, including more than $13 billion so far from its biggest backer, Microsoft. However, the non-profit entity, along with employees and investors, currently owns that for-profit subsidiary.