Top tech leaders like Elon Musk and Sam Altman are feeling unwelcome in the current two-party system. Meanwhile, Democrats—still reeling from President Donald Trump’s return to the White House on the back of his economic populism—are grappling with their own message. The turmoil points to a clash in competing visions over how to run the economy.

Elon Musk sued OpenAI and its chief Sam Altman, alleging that they have led the firm to “radically depart from its original mission” by prioritizing profit over humanity.

Elon Musk’s Criticism of Sam Altman. After successfully launching the non-profit firm in 2015, Musk left the company three years later, citing a conflict of interest with his AI work at Tesla.

Elon Musk has announced that exposing the Jeffrey Epstein files will be a top priority for his new America Party. A former Donald Trump ally, Musk criticized the Department of Justice (DOJ) memo finding no evidence of Epstein’s alleged client list and questioned whether the public could trust Trump without full disclosure.