The rivalry between Sam Altman and Elon Musk is entering its Apprentice era. Both men have the ambition to redefine how the modern world works—and both are jockeying for President Donald Trump’s blessing to accelerate their plans.

DOGE access to government computers has sparked fears about cybersecurity vulnerabilities and privacy violations, as well as. the potential use of the data to train a private company's artificial intelligence system.

Somehow, in between gutting the federal government and running Tesla and SpaceX, Elon Musk has found time to launch a $97.4 billion takeover bid for OpenAI, said Kelsey Piper in Vox. That seemingly lowball offer — the ChatGPT-maker is thought to be worth more than $300 billion — was quickly rejected by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman last week.

So far in 2025, Elon Musk’s net worth has dropped by $98 billion. Even so, he remains the richest man in the world.

The process of making cryptocurrencies shows how easy and “powerful” it would be to tokenize private companies like OpenAI and SpaceX, says Robinhood CEO Vladimir Tenev.