Proof once again that it’s easier to make money when you already have it, especially at the peak of the AI hype cycle.
Four months ago Musk posted the following after the Financial Times said xAI was seeking investments up to $6 billion:
xAI is not raising capital and I have had no conversations with anyone in this regard
Update 5:08AM ET: Added Musk quote.
[x.ai]
It’s been five years since “threadnought,” a giant Twitter thread in which lawyers battled trolls who were trying to silence critics of an anime voice actor accused of sexual misconduct.
Now, with a law firm drafted from the thread’s funniest people, lawyer Akiva Cohen represents many former Twitter employees who are suing Elon Musk over how he fired them after buying the company.
The application to extend an injunction for X to remove posts depicting an attack on a church bishop was refused on Monday, for yet undisclosed reasons. A final hearing is expected in mid-June.
X blocked the video for Australian users but refused to remove it globally, despite the Australian eSafety Commission finding that geoblocking wasn’t enough to comply with its online safety laws.
A judge tossed a lawsuit by Elon Musk’s X against web scraper Bright Data that alleged it illegally circumvented X’s anti-scraping technology. It comes after Musk lost a similar suit against an anti-hate group in March.
Just like PlayStation a few months ago and the Xbox platform last spring, Nintendo’s Twitter sharing features are disappearing as the X API lockdown tightens. (The send friend requests to social media from your Switch feature is also going away.)
The X Gaming account claims “Our partnership with Nintendo remains strong,” so we’ll see which integrations end up on the “Switch 2.”
