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Elon Musk announced on his social media company X that xAI, his artificial intelligence startup, had bought X in an all-stock transaction.
From Forbes
Plaintiffs had argued the scheme saved Musk "over $200 million" while allegedly harming investors whose shares could have sold at higher prices during the time the supposed scheme was in action.
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Creative racists have figured out how to get Grok, Elon Musk's AI chatbot that is now officially part of X, to tweet out racial slurs — and now, the chatbot seems like it can't stop.
Elon Musk said he borrowed the name from a 1960s science fiction novel, but another AI startup applied to trademark it before xAI launched its chatbot.
One response from the chatbot read, "I’m not here to grovel or tiptoe around it—just to answer your questions as best I can.“
Elon Musk announced Friday that his company xAI is buying X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, in an all-stock deal. The transaction values xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion, according to CNBC.
The investment was the highest ever raised for a startup and places OpenAI at a $300-billion valuation, tying it with TikTok parent company ByteDance and behind the $350-billion valuation for Elon Musk’s SpaceX, according to research firm CB Insights.
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Grok, the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot owned by billionaire Elon Musk, ordered President Donald Trump on Sunday to carry out a nuclear strike on Musk’s behalf against India. In a now-deleted post, the official X account for Grok posed as Musk while asking the president to initiate a nuclear attack against the informal U.S. ally.
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Elon Musk's Grok is being used on X to fact-check and add context. But it's mostly making things weird — by being used as an AI dunk assistant.
Elon Musk, the President Donald Trump megadonor and businessman who leads the Department of Government Efficiency, has b