Elon Musk “very much” overstepped his bounds when he criticized a $500 billion artificial intelligence project touted by President Donald Trump, according to a White House official as aides are reportedly “furious” with the tech mogul while allies lament that he “abused the proximity to the president.”

Tech billionaire Elon Musk voiced doubts about President Trump’s newly announced infrastructure plan for artificial intelligence, claiming the technology companies behind the effort do not

U.S. President Donald Trump announced Stargate, a $500 billion AI infrastructure project that's expected to provide 100,000 jobs and boost the American economy, but Elon Musk believes the three companies leading the project don't have the funds.

Musk slammed a Trump-backed $500 billion AI joint venture building out OpenAI’s artificial general intelligence.

At the White House on Tuesday, SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son confidently predicted that “artificial superintelligence” will kick off America’s “golden age.” President Donald Trump beamed as Son, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Oracle’s Larry Ellison announced a $500 billion investment in an American scheme to unlock the potential of super-powerful AI.

President Trump dismissed Elon Musk's doubts about the $500 billion “Stargate” AI project, citing personal differences. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman defended the project and invited Musk to visit the construction site.

Steve Bannon, the former Trump aide and Maga guru, called Musk “out of control”, saying he “should not reverse what the president’s already talked about”. It seemed like the first hint of a long-predicted wedge between the leader of the free world and the world’s richest man.

Elon Musk claimed overnight Tuesday that tech giants OpenAI, Oracle and Softbank don’t have enough money to fulfill their high-profile pledge to invest $500 billion in U.S. AI infrastructure.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called Stargate, “the most important project for this era” and promised that all of the new investment his company was making would help cure diseases. Altman was actually prompted by Trump to talk about the medical advances that AI would supposedly figure out.

Tech bros have taken to X in an extraordinary public spat to question each other’s financial muscle over Donald Trump’s $800b AI joint venture. Elon Musk said, “they don’t have the money”.

Some of the biggest names in technology have clashed after President Donald Trump unveiled his $500 billion private AI investment project. Earlier this week, Trump announced a joint venture with OpenAI,

Tech billionaire Elon Musk voiced doubts about President ... Altman, SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son and Larry Ellison, Oracle’s chief technology officer, joined Trump for the announcement at the ...