Musk’s loyalists at DOGE have infiltrated dozens of federal agencies, pushed out tens of thousands of workers, and siphoned millions of people’s most sensitive data. The next step: Unleash the AI.

Elon Musk has spent decades building a universe of companies that has served as an incubator for up-and-coming engineers and a proving ground for his inner circle. That universe — an ecosystem of Silicon Valley tech titans,

We’ve got Elon Musk doing a lot of things domestically, which I had some difficulties with on a Constitutional level and a contract level, said Andy Smith, director of the University New Hampshire Survey Center.