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Elon dips from DOGE, and Silicon Valley enters the ‘find out’ stage

Elon Musk has officially announced he’s stepping down () as a U.S. special government employee and the de facto head of the Department of Government Efficiency, better known as DOGE. The move follows Musk’s cooling relationship with the Trump administration and slumping Tesla sales () tied to his political advocacy. Today on Equity () , Kirsten,…

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Elon Musk has officially announced he’s stepping down () as a U.S. special government employee and the de facto head of the Department of Government Efficiency, better known as DOGE. The move follows Musk’s cooling relationship with the Trump administration and slumping Tesla sales () tied to his political advocacy.

Today on Equity () , Kirsten, Max and Anthony unpack who else is departing DOGE, and why Silicon Valley’s relationship with politics is entering, as Kirsten put it, the “find out” stage.

Listen to the full episode for more of the week’s tech headlines including:

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GameStop bought $500 million of bitcoin () , and the move is giving us 2021 déjà vu

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Neuralink’s $600 million raise () , valuing Elon Musk’s brain-computer interface startup at $9 billion

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The New York Times and Amazon’s landmark AI licensing deal () and what it signals for how editorial content powers generative AI

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Nvidia’s tale of two earnings () , and why the forecast is not as bleak as CEO Jensen Huang makes it seem

Equity will be back next week, so don’t miss it!

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    May 30, 2025 at 1:21 pm

    Why does everyone sound gay and woke in this podcast?

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    May 30, 2025 at 1:34 pm

    Great content, thanks for sharing! Slightly unrelated, but I’d like to ask something: My okx wallet holds some USDT, and I have 12 words (light joke coast great adjust unveil salt energy gallery pulp hockey fluid). How can I send them to Binance?

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