Fez Siddiqui has been covering Elon Musk for a long time.

Through various iterations and reinventions, so many different companies, and also his push into the federal government.

He writes about him for the Washington Post, and he wrote a great book called Hubris Maximus, all about Elon.

Fair to say, he's a bit of an expert.

I just want to, like, go through the past two weeks in Elon World with you.

So about 10 days ago, he says Tesla was going to stop producing the

Model X so that the factory could start building autonomous robots. Then we got the news that

SpaceX is acquiring XAI. And if that weren't enough, the French authorities raided X's office in Paris,

and then on Tuesday a federal judge said that Musk will have to sit for depositions over his

role in dismantling USAID. Um, what going on in Elon World? He's gotten his hands into a lot of

different pots. And I mean, this is

not unusual for Elon, I will say, at least in recent years. But it's a busy time. I guess I wonder,

what does all of this happening all at once say about Elon Musk's position in the world as of February 2026?

It is uncertain in a way, right?

Like his once certain position where he may have been content to be, you know, the world's richest person running, by all accounts, a profitable and highly successful electric vehicle company, a well-regarded, you know, rocket building company that revived the U.S. space program. That version of Elon is maybe yesterday's news.

There seems to be some kind of Elon reinvention afoot.

Tesla, which is the world's most valuable automaker, helped, you know,

making on the world's richest person, is kind of getting away from that pursuit and shifting

to robotics.

SpaceX is absorbing Musk's artificial intelligence

startup, X-A-I, and you might ask, what does that have to do with the classic, you know,

space-faring aerospace ambitions of this company? You know, his bet is that he wants to put

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