Elon Musk has backtracked on his earlier goal of cutting $2 trillion from the federal budget. In a live interview on X, formerly Twitter, with Stagwell CEO Mark Penn on Wednesday, Musk said slashing $2 trillion from the budget would be "the best-case ...

During a livestremed talk with Stagwell Inc. CEO Mark Penn, tech billionaire Elon Musk admits that the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency may not reach its goal.

Discussions at the Center for Particle Cosmology are currently underway to select the next speaker for the Elon Musk Public Lecture series, which was last held in 2023.

"I guess it will be a bit like being retired," Elon Musk told Stagwell's Mark Penn during a freewheeling conversation on X @Live during CES Wednesday night.

Is DOGE all bark and no bite? Billionaire Elon Musk has walked back a prior claim that his vaunted blue ribbon commission on government bloat and inefficiencies would be able to slash the roughly $6.75 trillion annual federal budget by $2 trillion.

Elon Musk is backing away from his campaign trail commitment to trim $2 trillion in government spending. While stumping for Donald Trump days before November’s presidential election, the billionaire GOP donor told cheering fans he would help the new administration cut “at least” that amount from the federal budget.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk had previously penciled in a target of $2 trillion ... I think that’s like the best-case outcome,” Musk told Mark Penn, chairman and CEO of marketing business Stagwell, in a live interview on X. “I think if we try for $2 trillion ...

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 asked a judge to block OpenAI's attempt to transition from nonprofit to for-profit. It's not the first time he's feuded with CEO Sam Altman.

JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon said that he and Elon Musk have "hugged it out" and resolved their differences, going so far as to compare the billionaire to Albert Einstein. " SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, I mean, the guy is our Einstein," Dimon told CNBC.