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People are turning on Elon Musk
Elon Musk’s popularity with the American public is waning, according to the latest polling average from Nate Silver’s Silver Bulletin. The billionaire CEO of multiple companies wears many hats, but the most visible one of late has been as the face of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), an organization that has been tearing through the US government administrative state.…
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OpenAI’s Countersuit of Elon Musk Alleges Harassment & ‘Sham’ Takeover Bid
OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman. Image: Creative Commons While the legal battle between Elon Musk and OpenAI is scheduled to begin in the spring of 2026, the team at OpenAI has filed a countersuit accusing Musk of sustained harassment. The OpenAI/Musk feud thus far Although the roots of the feud go all the way back to the late 2010s and the…
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OpenAI countersues Elon Musk to stop his attacks and ‘fake takeover bid’
OpenAI filed a countersuit against Elon Musk on Wednesday, saying on X that “Elon’s nonstop actions against us are just bad-faith tactics to slow down OpenAI and seize control of the leading AI innovations for his personal benefit.” In the lawsuit, OpenAI’s lawyers argue that “Musk’s continued attacks on OpenAI, culminating most recently in the fake takeover bid designed to…
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Elon Musk’s xAI Acquires X in $45B Deal to ‘Unlock Immense Potential’
Image: SpaceX/YouTube Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI has formally acquired his social media platform X in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $45 billion. This figure includes $12 billion in debt, bringing the implied equity value of X to $33 billion. The merger will “combine the data, models, compute, distribution and talent” of the two companies, according to Musk’s…
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Elon Musk’s xAI buys Elon Musk’s X for $33 billion on paper
A few years after buying Twitter for $44 billion, Elon Musk announced that his AI business xAI has acquired the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. In a tweet, he described it as an all-stock transaction, valuing xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion, including $12 billion in debt it had as part of his takeover.…
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Elon Musk claims federal employees have 48 hours to explain recent work or resign
Elon Musk tweeted Saturday that federal workers would soon get an email “requesting to understand what they got done last week.” According to the New York Times, the email from the Office of Personnel Management went to agencies across the federal government that afternoon, including the FBI, State Department, and others, with a deadline for response by 11:59PM ET on…
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Elon Musk’s Grok AI said he and Donald Trump deserve death penalty
Elon Musk’s OpenAI rival, xAI, says it’s investigating why its Grok AI chatbot suggested that both President Donald Trump and Musk deserve the death penalty. xAI has already patched the issue and Grok will no longer give suggestions for who it thinks should receive capital punishment. People were able to get Grok to say that Trump deserved the death penalty…
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Elon Musk’s first month of destroying America will cost us decades
Let’s pause and look at what the Elon Musk administration has done so far. There’s been a lot of panic about the immediate but somewhat abstract constitutional crisis as Elon Musk’s misleadingly-named Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) rips the government apart. And as much fun as we all are having watching Congress render itself irrelevant and wondering whether the courts…
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Elon Musk at CPAC 2025: a transcript
Elon Musk spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Thursday, giving a strange and often inarticulate on-stage interview to Newsmax presenter Rob Schmitt. Schmitt was all smiles and enthusiasm, and managed to steer Musk through the half hour, never pausing to look back on the obvious logical inconsistencies, various falsehoods, and mathematical errors that littered the interview. He…
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Elon Musk doesn’t work for DOGE, says White House as battle for government servers intensifies – Computerworld
Furthermore, “The intelligence team recommended the DOGE members be monitored as an insider threat. Critically, they called for “suspending” any access to payment systems and “conducting a comprehensive review of all actions they may have taken on these systems,” it continued. “Mr. Musk has gained sweeping and unprecedented access to sensitive data, information, systems, and technological and financial infrastructure across…
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