Sources tell WIRED that the OPM’s top layers of management now include individuals linked to xAI, Neuralink, the Boring Company, and Palantir. One expert found the takeover reminiscent of Stalin.

Bankers are reportedly gearing up to offload debt used to fund Elon Musk’s social network, for which he paid $44 billion in 2022, including $13 billion in

Wall Street banks, finally within striking distance of offloading debt tied to X, have a sweetener on offer for potential buyers: a claim on the social-media platform’s stake in Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence venture.

Musk has tried several different ways to boost X’s profits, including making users pay for verification, something that had previously been given to users of notoriety and journalists. On Tuesday, the company’s CEO Linda Yaccarino announced a new deal with Visa for peer-to-peer payments on X.

Banks are hoping to sell the X debt at around 90 to 95 cents on the dollar.

The charges even have an added advantage of driving a wedge between Trump’s new SEC chair, Paul ­Atkins, and his enforcement staff that investigated the matter if ­Atkins raises these issues and looks to dismiss or impose a slap-on-the-wrist penalty.

Ever since Elon Musk closed his deal to buy Twitter he’s claimed the company, now called X, is in “a very dire situation from a revenue standpoint.”

Since his takeover of then-Twitter in 2022, Mashable has reported that X's user base has declined, fleeing for alternatives like Bluesky, especially after the 2024 U.S. presidential election. Advertisers have been no different, with the trend of companies removing ads on X expected to continue this year.

A Chinese AI startup is gaining popularity, amassing tons of downloads shortly after the app’s debut. DeepSeek’s flagship model is free, but the organization charges users who connect their own applications to DeepSeek’s model and computing framework,

Wall Street analysts worry that new Chinese stealth aircraft could persuade the US to buy fewer of Lockheed Martin's F-35 stealth fighters.

This time around, he remarked on the feud between Elon Musk and OpenAI’s Sam Altman over President Trump’s $500 billion Stargate AI project. “I mean, you gotta talk about, oligarchs are mad at each other,” Cramer said. The fights make him want to “do [a] oligarch mad at each other segment.”