Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence start-up xAI said its models are now available to federal agencies. The DOD said it awarded $200 million contracts to xAI as well as Google, Anthropic and OpenAI.

Elon Musk’s announcement that he plans to form a new political party came easily, with the billionaire simply posting his intentions on his social media platform, X. Now comes the hard part. If the world’s richest man seriously pursues his goal of standing up what he calls the America Party,

Elon Musk says he’s starting the America Party to focus on cutting government spending, which he views as essential to U.S. security. But the hold that Republicans and Democrats have on the political system is a formidable barrier.

And earlier this month, when Elon Musk capped weeks of mouthing off about the GOP’s One Big Beautiful Bill by announcing the formation of a new America Party, it might have felt like a rare piece of good news for the left.