A Pivot to China Saved Elon Musk. It Also Binds Him to Beijing. – The New York Times

Tesla and China built a symbiotic relationship, with credits, workers and parts that made Mr. Musk ultrarich. Now, his reliance on the country may give Beijing leverage.
By Mara Hvistendahl, Jack Ewing and John Liu
When Elon Musk unveiled the first Chinese-made Teslas in Shanghai in 2020, he went off script and started dancing. Peeling off his jacket, he flung it across the stage in a partial striptease.
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A Pivot to China Saved Elon Musk. It Also Binds Him to Beijing. – The New York Times

The Grok chatbot will soon be enabled for X Premium users, Elon Musk says – Engadget

xAI's Grok chatbot, the Elon Musk-helmed company's answer to OpenAI's ChatGPT, will be available to X's Premium subscribers later this week. Musk has announced Grok's expanded availability in a tweet, along with an instructional video on how to post a conversation with the chatbot directly on the X website. Grok has been available to X's Premium+ subscribers since it exited early beta, but that paid tier on the social network costs $16 a month or $168 for the full year […]
The Grok chatbot will soon be enabled for X Premium users, Elon Musk says – Engadget

Elon Musk's X to pay legal bills for Canadian doctor chastised over COVID-19 tweets

Jars full of empty COVID-19 vaccine vials at a pharmacy in Toronto on April 6, 2022.Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press
Elon Musk’s X said it’s funding legal bills for a Canadian doctor previously chastised by regulators for her tweets about COVID-19.
In a post to the X News account on Sunday morning, the company formerly known as Twitter wrote that it’s “proud to defend” Dr. Kulvinder Kaur Gill against what it calls “government-supported efforts to cancel her speech.”
In 2021, the […]
Elon Musk's X to pay legal bills for Canadian doctor chastised over COVID-19 tweets