Elon Musk backs up Trump administration amid James Comey indictment, looming government shutdown

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Elon Musk posted in support of Trump following the indictment of James Comey. He also backed up VP JD Vance on an impending government shutdown.

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Mark Cuban says the AI arms race explains why Zuck, Musk, and Dell have embraced Trump — and why it may pay off

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Mark Zuckerberg and other Big Tech leaders are cozying up to Donald Trump to secure an edge in the AI arms race, Mark Cuban says.

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Behind Grok's 'sexy' settings, workers review explicit and disturbing content

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Some workers who train xAI's chatbot said they've encountered NSFW content, including child sexual abuse.

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From Elon Musk to Mark Zuckerberg, these are the high-profile billionaires throwing their support behind schools

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Elon Musk's $1 trillion pay deal is ambitious — but so was his last 'mammoth' one, tech guru says

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Spacex founder Elon Musk celebrates after the successful launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the manned Crew Dragon spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center on May 30, 2020 in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

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Inside xAI's tumultuous month: Workers locked out of Slack, a 'chaotic' all-hands meeting, and waves of job cuts

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XAI laid off hundreds of workers in September

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Elon Musk's xAI lays off hundreds of workers tasked with training Grok

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Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick says Elon Musk got DOGE 'backward'

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Howard Lutnick criticized Elon Musk's approach to government efficiency cuts.

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Tesla board chair says Elon Musk being involved in things outside of the company 'actually helps Tesla'

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Robyn Denholm, Chair of the Technology Council of Australia and Chair of the Board of Directors of Tesla Inc, during an address to the National Press Club of Australia in Canberra on Wednesday September 14th, 2022.
Tesla chair Robyn Denholm.

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First Elon Musk, now Larry Ellison: The world's richest men are buying huge media companies — because they can

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Larry Ellison is one of the world's richest men, so he can buy anything he wants, like a media company or two. That's what Elon Musk did with Twitter.

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