Publicly Elon Musk couldn’t care less about attending the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, but privately he has a history of being the ultimate pick-me guy, according to the WEF’s former head of communications.

The chairman of the World Holocaust Remembrance Center has accused Elon Musk of insulting victims of Nazism after the billionaire told a German far-right political party that the country needed to “move beyond” the “guilt” of the past.

Elon Musk’s controversial gesture, which some interpreted as a Nazi-style salute, drew criticism from Trump’s political opponents and energized fans on the far right.

I would prefer to stay out of politics,” Elon Musk told his followers in 2021, on the platform then known as Twitter. Plenty has changed since then. The world’s richest man appears to have a new goal: upending Europe.

"Elon and I hugged it out," Dimon told CNBC in a TV interview at the World Economic Forum's annual event in Davos, Switzerland, Wednesday. "The guy is our Einstein," the JPMorgan chief said. "I'd like to be helpful to him and his companies as much as we can.

Donald Trump and Elon Musk loom large over this year's World Economic Forum in Davos.

During the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the AI developer’s finance chief talked in detail about the company’s restructuring, Elon Musk’s legal actions and IPO best practices.

The billionaire and his Silicon Valley associates landed in the capital and immediately moved to cut the size of the federal government, reprising the playbook he used after buying Twitter in 2022.

Musk then slapped his chest with his right hand, before flinging it diagonally upwards, palm face down. He turned around to audience members behind the podium, and repeated the gesture. “My heart goes out to you,

Jamie Dimon, the billionaire head of the U.S.’ biggest bank, lauded Tesla CEO Elon Musk, the richest man on the planet and a key part of President Donald Trump’s administration, this week, putting an end to years of head-butting between the billionaires’ companies as Dimon becomes the latest billionaire warming to Musk or Trump.

Former Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency — the cost-slashing body known as DOGE — should train its sights on the World Bank after it was accused of losing track of $24 billion in climate funding.

JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon said he and Elon Musk “hugged it out” and put aside nearly a decade of tense interactions thanks to a conversation the pair had at a conference last year.