Elon Musk had sharp words for a private-sector partnership touted this week by the Trump administration to hasten the development of artificial intelligence infrastructure. “They don’t actually have the money,” Musk said of two of the participants in the $500 billion initiative, OpenAI and SoftBank, on his social media site X.

A gesture associated with the Nazis has a surprising history. But in Germany, there was little doubt about its meaning.

After facing backlash for gestures at Trump’s inauguration event and attempts to make Nazi-related puns on X, Elon Musk told supporters of Germany’s far-right AfD party there is “too much of a focus on past guilt.