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.

While Elon Musk has become one of his closest advisors, the list of tech CEOs who attended his inauguration included Meta Platform’s (META) Mark Zuckerberg, Alphabet’s (GOOGL) Sundar Pichai, and Amazon (AMZN) founder Jeff Bezos.

Tesla now faces headwinds from the president Musk helped elect. Trump, a frequent EV critic, has called for scrapping EV subsidies and policies that have added billions of dollars to Tesla’s bottom line. Musk has dismissed the impact on Tesla of losing subsidies, saying rivals would suffer more.