Gates pointed to Musk’s role in cutting funds to a hospital in Africa that helps prevent mothers with HIV from transmitting the virus to their babies.

Elon Musk rejected Bill Gates’s claim that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is endangering children’s lives by slashing USAID funding, calling Gates a liar and demanding evidence of harm.

Elon Musk has spent decades building a universe of companies that has served as an incubator for up-and-coming engineers and a proving ground for his inner circle. That universe — an ecosystem of Silicon Valley tech titans,