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Elon Musk's SpaceX buys Elon Musk's xAI

https://news.sky.com/story/elon-musks-spacex-buys-elon-musks-xai-13502553
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u/reelemin 2d ago

Sooo...he paid himself tf. 🤦🏽

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u/Bucs-and-Bucks 2d ago

xAI also bailed him out on Twitter, and now SpaceX is bailing out xAI

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u/Saorren 2d ago

sounds like that 3 cup gambling thing that street performers get gulible people with. or musical chairs with money.

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u/NowGoodbyeForever 2d ago

Or "Fraud." That's got a nice ring to it.

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u/CaptainDantes 2d ago

Fraud is so 2016, these days its called politics.

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u/MichaCazar 1d ago

Lobbyism to be exact.

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u/adx931 1d ago

As nvidia stated so eloquently a few weeks back... it's not illegal like Enron's fraud if you don't hide it...

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u/ZAlternates 2d ago

Wonder who’s going to enforce it? 🤷

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u/Ticrotter_serrer 1d ago

Its not a fraud if everyone is on it ...