The Trump campaign employed VanAkin between June and October. He received $14,000 in payments labelled “advance consulting & per diem” — for planning logistics ahead of campaign rallies — and $16,000 in travel reimbursements, according to FEC filings.

Elon Musk boasts being one of the top-ranked Diablo IV players. Some prolific gamers believe the Tesla CEO is cheating by taking advantage of a game bug. Amid Elon Musk’s to-do list includes serving as chief executive of Tesla and SpaceX;

The world’s richest man claims he’s playing the game at the highest level. But that’s only true if you have no idea what’s going on.

Now Musk's escalating criticism and mocking of European leaders and governments, which he has done repeatedly via X, the social media platform he owns, has sparked a backlash from European governments amid increasing calls for regulatory action in Europe against X.

Elon Musk walked back his previous claim that he could cut at least $2 trillion from the federal budget, saying Wednesday that half that amount would be “an epic outcome.”

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Having established power over Republican politics in the US, the industrialist is now intervening in European politics—and is himself becoming a leader of the international far right.

Indeed, Musk suggested that synthetic data — data generated by AI models themselves — is the path forward. “The only way to supplement [real-world data] is with synthetic data, where the AI creates [training data],” he said. “With synthetic data … [AI] will sort of grade itself and go through this process of self-learning.”

The X owner shared false claims that a Home Office memo urged police not to intervene in child grooming cases.

Musk said in a social media post “DEI means people DIE” without elaborating on how diversity commitments would impede the Los Angeles Fire Department’s ability to fight fires.