And then along came xAI where a bunch of people gave Elon money and he "merged" Twitter and xAI, basically siphoning off billions of the investment funds ti bail himself out. If securities law had teeth, he probably should've gone to prison for this.
At the ssame time, why weer people giving this charlatan man-child billions to invest in AI?
The problem is they weren't buying AI. IMHO they were buying a seat at the table and an influence in the administration, a bit like the Saudi sovereign fund's "investment" in Jared Kushner.
Thing is, this isn't the first time he's done this. Elon used one of his companies (Tesla) to buy another of his companies (SolarCity) who was essentially insolvent but owed a lot of money to a third of Elon's companies (SpaceX). There was a lawsuit but it was dismissed. If you're sufficiently wealthy, the law basically doesn't apply to you [2].
I knew before even clicking on this that the justification would be orbital data centers (and it is). They make no sense becaus eof launch costs, cooling and cosmic rays and solar radiation.
Is this the continuation of the Twitter buyout shell game?
[1]: https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/02/business/elon-musk-twitter-x-...
The same reason Adam Neumann got another $350M They all know its a game and that game is prop up the valuations. They get rich off of the speculation and hype rather than the substance