"It is very hard to separate Elon Musk's brand from the brand of Tesla, and SpaceX," a Harvard Business fellow told Newsweek.

Elon Musk arrived in the nation’s capital with the chain saw-wielding swagger of a tech titan who had never met a problem he couldn’t solve with lots of money, long hours or a well-calibrated algorithm.

The @DOGE mission will only strengthen over time as it becomes a way of life throughout the government,” Musk wrote on his social media platform X. That tweet was followed up by reporting in the Associated Press,

In a presentation to SpaceX employees about plans to colonize Mars, Musk also said he wants SpaceX to make a staggering 1,000 Starship vehicles per year.

Now, Musk is saying he’s had a change of heart. On May 28th, Musk announced that he’s officially stepping away from DOGE as his “scheduled time as a Special Government Employee comes to an end.” And in the days leading up to this update, Musk has held a flurry of interviews in which he’s tried to convince his audience that he’s done with politics.

The Tesla mogul's inability to find a fraction of the fraud he originally promised made his thank-you to Trump a ripe target for internet snark.

Elon Musk is leaving his government role as a top adviser to President Donald Trump after spearheading efforts to reduce and overhaul the federal bureaucracy.

Critics of longtermism say it appeals to wealthy tech moguls precisely because it adds a sheen of morality to their masters-of-the-universe projects. They also say that the moguls’ ultimate goal is a utopian civilization of humans, biological and robotic, all A.I. enhanced.

Listen, Tim Walz is just pointing out that Elon Musk finally did what he said he’d do. The Democratic Minnesota governor had a pretty clever response to news on Wednesday that Musk was exiting the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).