Publicly Elon Musk couldn’t care less about attending the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, but privately he has a history of being the ultimate pick-me guy, according to the WEF’s former head of communications.

I would prefer to stay out of politics,” Elon Musk told his followers in 2021, on the platform then known as Twitter. Plenty has changed since then. The world’s richest man appears to have a new goal: upending Europe.

"Elon and I hugged it out," Dimon told CNBC in a TV interview at the World Economic Forum's annual event in Davos, Switzerland, Wednesday. "The guy is our Einstein," the JPMorgan chief said. "I'd like to be helpful to him and his companies as much as we can.

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves joked about Elon Musk’s online “trolling” of world leaders, in a break from the UK government’s careful efforts to avoid responding to frequent criticism from the close Trump ally.

During the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the AI developer’s finance chief talked in detail about the company’s restructuring, Elon Musk’s legal actions and IPO best practices.

Donald Trump and Elon Musk loom large over this year's World Economic Forum in Davos.

President Donald Trump was asked to address Elon Musk's criticism of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman at an Oval Office press opportunity with reporters on Thursday. REPORTER: Does it bother you that Elon Musk criticized a deal that you made publicly that he said that he tweeted that?

Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are fighting on X about Stargate, the infrastructure project to build data centers for OpenAI in the U.S.

Elon Musk’s controversial gesture, which some interpreted as a Nazi-style salute, drew criticism from Trump’s political opponents and energized fans on the far right.

Taking aim at Wikipedia co-founders Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, Musk argued that the site had become an extension of left-wing media or the “legacy media”, a term that has been adopted as a derogatory way to refer to traditional media sources by the MAGA movement.

Sarah Kate Ellis spoke at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Thursday: "It's a distraction — they're grabbing more power."

Speaking at the World Economic Forum summit in Davos, Switzerland, Argentina's President Javier Milei says he has found "comrades in this fight for the ideas of freedom", in likeminded leaders such as US President Donald Trump,