I would prefer to stay out of politics,” Elon Musk told his followers in 2021, on the platform then known as Twitter. Plenty has changed since then. The world’s richest man appears to have a new goal: upending Europe.

The billionaire and his Silicon Valley associates landed in the capital and immediately moved to cut the size of the federal government, reprising the playbook he used after buying Twitter in 2022.

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His disruptive playbook is being replicated and exported worldwide, inspiring fellow tech moguls and autocrats to follow suit.

Elon Musk’s controversial gesture, which some interpreted as a Nazi-style salute, drew criticism from Trump’s political opponents and energized fans on the far right.

Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Ben Cohen launched the “DOGE vs. Blob" meme contest on his X account shortly after President Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday.

Musk slammed a Trump-backed $500 billion AI joint venture building out OpenAI’s artificial general intelligence.

Elon Musk offered Donald Trump supporters what looked a lot like a Nazi salute on live TV at Trump's post-swearing-in inauguration rally.

The blossoming relationship between Trump and tech titan Elon Musk was on full display throughout Monday’s inauguration ceremonies.

But what stays with me isn’t the overwrought antipathy between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, the tetchy tech titans who, in the summer of 2023, made noises — let’s call them grunts — about demonstrating their reciprocal disdain by squaring off and throwing down on the kind of stage used for Ultimate Fighting Championship events.

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. (GA-ASI) has urged billionaire Elon Musk to push forward major reform as it complained that several