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White House chief of staff Susie Wiles said the relationship between President Trump and billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk had a “troublesome ending,” despite the close and almost fatherly relationship the two shared. In an interview with the New York Post’s Miranda Devine, Wiles was asked how she would describe the relationship and expressed that she didn’t understand what went sour. “He had a sort of fatherly fixation with Donald…

Elon Musk’s favorability dropped again this past week amid his renewed feud with President Trump and move to launch a separate political party.  In the last week, Musk’s net favorability in the aggregate kept by Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ) dropped 3.4 points, falling just more than 20 points in the negative. The percentage that view the onetime Trump ally unfavorably reached its highest point of the president’s second term at…

X CEO Linda Yaccarino said Wednesday she is leaving her role at Elon Musk’s social media company after two years.  “When @elonmusk and I first spoke of his vision for X, I knew it would be the opportunity of a lifetime to carry out the extraordinary mission of this company,” she wrote in a post on the platform.  “I’m immensely grateful to him for entrusting me with the responsibility of…

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence (AI) company xAI said Tuesday it was deleting posts from its chatbot, Grok, after it began producing antisemitic responses.  Following a Friday update, Grok began writing posts on X — Musk’s social media platform — making broad generalizations about people with Jewish surnames and perpetuating antisemitic stereotypes about Jewish people in Hollywood.  When asked by one user about the change, Grok responded, “Elon’s recent tweaks just…

Elon Musk’s push to create a third political party is putting his business empire at risk once again, raising questions about how his political ambitions align with the interests of his companies.  After the tech billionaire launched his new America Party over the weekend, Tesla saw its shares tumble Monday — the latest occasion in recent months in which the electric vehicle (EV) maker has taken a hit over its…

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) plans to lay out her own “principles” for legislation creating regulatory rules of the road for the digital assets market Wednesday. Warren, the top Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee and a vocal critic of the crypto industry, is offering up her framework in contrast to the principles put forward by her Republican colleagues late last month as a precursor to a crypto market structure bill. …