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 ...

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.

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.

"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.

The cumulative sum of human knowledge has been exhausted in AI training,” Musk said. “That happened basically last year.”

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.

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."

After promising to cut $2 trillion from the federal budget, the Tesla founder called $1 trillion an “epic” goal. Still, he described the government as “target-rich,” boasting: “You can close your eyes and you can’t miss.

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 ...

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