President Donald Trump’s announcement on Tuesday of a $500 billion investment into artificial intelligence infrastructure was quickly upended by a controversial administration official worth nearly

Love him or hate him for his strident political views, the controversial entrepreneur has quickly risen in the annual Brand Guardianship Index that ranks the world's 100 best CEOs.

While the event marked a significant political moment, it was the actions of two tech giants, Sundar Pichai and Elon Musk, that caught the internet’s attention

Among the tech CEOs in attendance at Donald Trump's inauguration ceremony inside the Capitol rotunda on Monday, Jan. 20, were Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and Tim Cook

Among the guests at Donald Trump's second inauguration in Washington, D.C. today were three billionaire tech CEOs: Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Tesla's Elon Musk, and Meta's Mark Zuckerberg. They were also joined by Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Apple CEO Tim Cook.

The company formerly known as Google has seen almost a 16 per cent rise in share price from when Trump was confirmed as having won the US election in early November, and while it has held fairly steady across the past month, the final week of Joe Biden’s administration did see an initial 1.6 per cent rise.

Elon Musk and Sam Altman shared a longstanding feud ever since Musk, who co-founded OpenAI with Altman in 2015, split from the company.

Ian Hislop has been praised for his takedown of Elon Musk after the controversial figure’s explosive row with Sir Keir Starmer. Starmer has been embroiled in a war of words with the tech billionaire Elon Musk, which broke out after the Tesla tycoon criticised the Labour government for rejecting a national inquiry into the grooming gangs scandal.

Donald Trump took the oath for a historic term on Monday, completing his extraordinary comeback. Tech billionaires, foreign diplomats and CEOs were seen sitting prominently on the dais in the US Capitol during his first speech after the oath.

SIGN UP for TheStreet’s FREE Daily newsletter 💰💸 Elon Musk has never avoided getting into arguments with other high-profile figures. He’s publicly insulted politicians such as Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren and lashed out at X users with opinions he doesn’t share.

After years of rejecting the idea of a sale of TikTok’s US assets to an American buyer in order to avert a ban, China and ByteDance may have found an owner they could live with: Elon Musk.