Elon Musk walked back his previous claim that he could cut at least $2 trillion from the federal budget, saying Wednesday that half that amount would be “an epic outcome.”

In a Wednesday interview on X, Elon Musk said cuts of $2 trillion to the federal budget might not be possible and was a "best-case outcome."

Having successfully worked to get his candidate elected in the US, Elon Musk is setting his sights on Europe. In a series of posts on his X platform in recent weeks, the billionaire backer of Donald Trump has honed in on Germany and the UK.

Elon Musk’s efforts to influence European politics raise questions about the degree to which he speaks for himself or President-elect Donald Trump.

While Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk never did face off in that cage match, "Uncle Elon" has bested Zuck in the political arena, becoming one of the most powerful unelected figures in modern US history.

T he founder of Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, has announced substantial changes to the way that his company’s two most popular products, the social media networks Facebook and Instagra

Musk tested the boundaries of foreign election interference, hosting AfD co-leader Alice Weidel for a livestream interview on his X social media platform.

Indeed, Musk suggested that synthetic data — data generated by AI models themselves — is the path forward. “The only way to supplement [real-world data] is with synthetic data, where the AI creates [training data],” he said. “With synthetic data … [AI] will sort of grade itself and go through this process of self-learning.”

Elon Musk hosted a a wide-ranging conversation on X that touched on immigration, energy policy, space colonization, God and Adolf Hitler.