Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Monday, February 17th.

Today on Forbes, in Musk's global power play,

Everything and Everywhere's a conflict.

Just after midnight in the wee hours of last Thursday morning,

Elon Musk video-conferenced in from Washington, D.C., to Dubai's World Government Summit,

to pitch his Department of Government Efficiency effort to a gathering of global leaders.

Musk, clad in a T-shirt that said tech support, said, quote,

We do need to delete entire agencies.

Before the event wrapped, Musk and Omar al-Olama, the Minister of Artificial Intelligence

for the United Arab Emirates, announced that Musk's tunnel startup, the Boring Company,

would be building one of its underground loops in Dubai for an undisclosed cost.

Al-Olamma said, quote,

It is going to cover Dubai's most densely populated

area for people to go from point to point in a seamless manner. He said this, despite the fact

that the boring company's only existing tunnel, in which Tesla's ferry people around a conference

center in Las Vegas, is beset by trespassers and minimal traffic.

Later that day, Musk was meeting face-to-face in Washington with Indian Prime Minister,

Narendra Modi.

Once again, the discussion was a mix of government cost-cutting and topics, space, mobility,

and technology that intersect with Musk's business empire, as

Modi later said on X. Starlink, Musk's satellite company, is seeking approval to provide

wireless internet to India's 1.4 billion people. Musk occupies an unprecedented position. He's the

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