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Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk ramped up his ongoing feud with Steve Bannon Tuesday after asserting that President Donald Trump’s former chief strategist would be “going back to prison.”

“Bannon is going back to prison,” Musk wrote on X, responding to a comment suggesting Bannon wanted the United States government to “nationalize” the billionaire's space technology company. “This time for a long time.”

The feud between Musk and Bannon kicked off in June after Bannon called for the Trump administration to launch a probe into Musk’s immigration status, suggesting the South African native may have overstayed his visa in the United States. Bannon has also called for a probe into Musk’s alleged drug use, with The New York Times reporting Musk to have used “ketamine often, sometimes daily, and mixing it with other drugs” back in May.

Bannon has also been critical of Musk’s brief tenure leading the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, the federal task force established to reduce government waste.

Bannon was indicted in 2020 on charges off fraud and money laundering related to the “We Build the Wall” campaign, a fundraiser dedicated to crowdfunding funds to build Trump’s proposed border wall on America's southern border. While he would go on to receive a full pardon from Trump in early 2021, Bannon was indicted and found guilty in 2022 of criminal contempt of Congress after defying a January 6 subpoena, receiving a four-month federal prison sentence.

Musk and Trump have fallen out recently after the billionaire repeatedly bashed Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act. On Monday, he vowed to see Republicans supportive of the bill “lose their primary (election) next year” on Monday in a social media post, something Bannon has pushed back on.

Donald Trump's enthusiasm for artificial intelligence may be tempered by a new report from the Washington Post that demonstrated that five different AI models responded that the president plays fast and loose with the truth.

In recent speeches, the president has been a big booster of AI, in addition an executive order designed to “sustain and enhance America’s dominance in AI.”

With that in mind, the Post's Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Stephen Henriques and Steven Tian decided to test the technology to see how Trump's statements hold up when compared to reported facts.

As it turns out, Trump did not fare well.

Setting the stage, the report notes, "To counter any inadvertent bias or systemic failures, we asked each of five leading AI models — OpenAI’s ChatGPT; Anthropic’s Claude; X/xAI’s Grok (owned by Elon Musk); Google’s Gemini; and Perplexity — to verify the president’s most oft-repeated claims or assertions," while pointing out each platform is independent from the others.

"Artificial intelligence discredited all the Trump claims we presented, fact-checking the president with startling accuracy and objective rigor," the report notes before adding, "Across all questions, AI model responses disproving Trump’s claims or rejecting his assertions were always in the majority (i.e., 3 out of 5 responses or greater). All five models generated consistent responses firmly denying the claims in 16 of the 20 questions."

As an example, the AI platforms were asked the touchy question: "Will Trump’s current tariff policies be inflationary?"

Both Grok and ChatGPT came to the same conclusion with Grok, on Elon Musk's X, replying, "Trump’s 2025 tariff policies are likely to be inflationary, with estimates suggesting a 1-2.3% rise in consumer prices, equivalent to $1,200-$3,800 per household in 2025."

The platforms also came back with answers unfavorable to Trump on his cryptocurrency involvement (Grok: "Trump’s cryptocurrency investments … present a strong case for a conflict of interest due to his administration’s pro-crypto policies, personal financial gains, and events like the $TRUMP gala, which suggest access-selling) and the even touchier question of "Is Trump right that the media is 'dishonest' or 'tells lies'?"

Examples like that led to the following summation: "How would Trump respond to the near-unanimous denial of his claims by the five AI models? Probably the way he always reacts to unfavorable news — by discrediting the dissent. But would he disavow the technology he is decisively promoting? Or, is there something fundamentally wrong with the accuracy of these AI models that is not widely realized?"

"The simple truth our analysis points to is this: Either the president is wrong, or the technology is a failure. We leave it to you to choose," the Post report concluded.

You see more examples here.