U.S. President Donald Trump bought at least $82 million in corporate and municipal bonds from late August to early October including new investments in sectors benefiting from his policies, financial disclosures made public on Saturday showed.

According to the forms released by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, Trump carried out more than 175 financial purchases from August 28 through October 2. The disclosures, made under a 1978 transparency law called the Ethics in Government Act, do not list exact amounts for each purchase, only providing a broad range.

The maximum total value of the bond purchases exceeded $337 million, according to the filings.

Most of the assets listed in Saturday’s disclosures consist of bonds issued by municipalities, states, counties, school districts and other entities with ties to public agencies.

Trump’s new bond investments span several industries, including sectors that have already benefited, or are benefiting, from his administration’s policy changes such as financial deregulation.

Corporate bonds acquired by Trump include offerings from chipmakers such as Broadcom and Qualcomm; tech companies such as Meta Platforms; retailers such as Home Depot and CVS Health ; and Wall Street banks such as Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. Purchases of the debt of investment banks in late August included bonds of JP Morgan. On Friday, Trump asked the U.S. Justice Department to investigate JP Morgan over its ties to the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The bank has said it regrets its past ties with Epstein and did not help him commit “heinous acts.” Trump also acquired Intel bonds after the U.S. government, under Trump’s direction, acquired a stake in the company. A White House official said on Monday Trump was fully complying with reporting requirements. “President Trump fully complies with his reporting obligations and continues to demonstrate his commitment to transparency and accountability in the federal government,” the official said.

The administration has previously said Trump has continued to file mandatory disclosures about his investments but that neither he nor his family has a role in running the portfolio, which is managed by a third-party financial institution.

Trump, who became wealthy in the real estate sector before entering politics, has previously said that he placed his companies into a trust overseen by his children.

A disclosure filed in August indicated that Trump had purchased more than $100 million in bonds since returning to the presidency on January 20. Trump also submitted his annual disclosure form in June, which indicated that income from his various ventures still ultimately goes to him, raising concerns of potential conflicts of interest.

In that annual disclosure, which appeared to cover the 2024 calendar year, Trump reported more than $600 million in income from cryptocurrencies, golf properties, licensing and other ventures. It also showed Trump’s push into crypto had added substantially to his wealth.

Overall, the president’s June disclosure reported assets worth at least $1.6 billion, according to a Reuters calculation at the time.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is returning to an operational leadership role for the first time in four years, taking the helm of a new AI venture with $6.2 billion in funding, a report said Monday.

According to the New York Times, citing sources familiar with the matter, the company, dubbed Project Prometheus, will focus on applying AI to engineering and manufacturing in sectors including computers, aerospace and automobiles.

Bezos will serve as co-chief executive alongside Vik Bajaj, a prominent Silicon Valley researcher who previously worked with Google co-founder Sergey Brin at the tech giant’s experimental X lab and co-founded life sciences research unit Verily.

The role at the startup represents Bezos’s first formal executive position since stepping down as Amazon CEO in July 2021.

The billionaire has since devoted time to his aerospace company, Blue Origin, and made headlines for his personal life, including a star-studded wedding in Venice this year.

Bezos has also more closely aligned himself with the Trump administration, attending the U.S. president’s inauguration in January and ordering a pro-business revamp of the opinion page at the Washington Post, the news media outlet he owns.

Project Prometheus enters a crowded AI market dominated by tech giants Google, Meta and Microsoft, alongside pioneering firms OpenAI and Anthropic. The company has already assembled nearly 100 employees, including researchers recruited from top AI labs, the Times reported.

The venture is part of a broader trend toward applying AI to physical tasks, often using robotics.

Unlike the generative AI technology behind ChatGPT, it aims to develop systems that learn from real-world experimentation, rather than just digital text, with the goal of accelerating scientific discovery in physics, chemistry and engineering.

Social media giant ‘X’ Corp has informed the Karnataka High Court that it received 29,118 government requests to remove content between January and June 2025, complying with 26,641 of them, a 91.49% compliance rate.

The company argued that these figures contradict a single judge’s September 24 finding that the platform intends to defy Indian law. The data was furnished as part of X’s writ appeal against the order upholding the Union government’s ‘Sahyog’ portal, the online system used to issue takedown directions to intermediaries.

In its recent appeal, X Corp contended that government agencies are unlawfully using Section 79(3)(b) of the Information Technology Act, 2000, along with Rule 3(1)(d) of the 2021 IT Rules, to issue content removal orders.

This, the company said, creates a parallel and unconstitutional mechanism that bypasses Section 69A of the IT Act, the only statutory process for blocking online content in India.

The Supreme Court, in Shreya Singhal versus Union of India (2015), had upheld the Section 69A framework and its built-in safeguards, the social media company cited.

X argued that Section 79 is merely a ‘safe harbour’ clause shielding intermediaries from liability and does not empower the government to direct content blocking.

Despite this, an October 31, 2023 MeitY memorandum allegedly authorised thousands of officials across ministries and state governments to issue blocking directions under Section 79(3)(b) and Rule 3(1)(d), sidestepping the stricter Section 69A procedure.

The company further claimed that the Ministry of Home Affairs, acting on MeitY’s instructions, created a confidential ‘Sahyog’ portal to facilitate such takedown orders without statutory support or transparency.

According to X, this amounts to an impermissible extension of executive power and enables censorship without due process.

Removal of political criticism

The petition cited several examples of State police and Central ministries, directing the removal of political criticism, news reports, parody, and other lawful speech under Rule 3(1)(d).

X Corp submitted that Rule 3(1)(d) lacks the procedural protections mandated under Section 69A, such as reasoned orders and narrow constitutional grounds under Article 19(2).

Allowing the government to block content under a less rigorous mechanism, it argued, violates Article 14 and renders Section 69A redundant.

The single judge, it said, failed to consider these constitutional implications.

A key plank of the appeal is the allegation that the single judge misapplied the Shreya Singhal case, wrongly concluding that it had been diluted after the 2021 IT Rules replaced the 2011 framework.

X maintained that the Supreme Court ruling remains fully applicable because the core statutory provisions — Sections 69A, 79 and the 2009 Blocking Rules — have not changed.