Elon Musk on X: "@xAI has acquired @X in an all-stock transaction. The combination values xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion ($45B less $12B debt). Since its founding two years ago, xAI has rapidly become one of the leading AI labs in the world, building models and data centers at" / X
("This is the end. Doo-doo-doom." Heart of Darkness stuff. There is no clock. Reverie adieu. Calculus of controversy. Actually a dialectical opportunity: socnets vs AI, AI & writing, AI and StarGate, Exec & Admin, M&A vs DOGE, stocks & bubbles, Grok & chat, authoritarianism and democracy, how industry picks up for gov, xAI out the park around OpenAI and Google, the other parks, Starship vs Starliner, whether Tesla employs Frankenstein, BCI & nth-order cybernetics, economics and machine learning, tech & gen AI, ideology & robotics, truth and consensus, meaning & multimodal, classic wealth/power/media, rhetorical triangle, creativity and critique, meta-cognition and meta-analysis, and so on. Kurtz' camp was all off-spring, binder notwithstanding. Benefits of a cult education. Or division of such. What are they defending? What is the Revolution?)