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Hellfire103 to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 month ago

Musk's xAI buys social media platform X for $45 billion

www.reuters.com

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Musk's xAI buys social media platform X for $45 billion

www.reuters.com

Hellfire103 to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 month ago
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  • @tetris11@lemmy.ml
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    44•1 month ago

    I dont understand these numbers, or the value of anything at all it appears

    • @AreaKode@lemmy.world
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      31•1 month ago

      And now you understand the stock market. Everything is worth something, but it’s only worth what someone will pay for it. If the richest man in the world says he owns 7, the stock soars! But in reality, the stock isn’t worth anything more than it was before. There’s just more dupees in the market now.

      • @MuskyMelon@lemmy.world
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        14•1 month ago

        1,000,000,000 dollars

        This is worth 1,000,000,000 dollars if someone buys it at that price.

        Stocks, art, wine, same valuation technique. Slap a sticker price and if someone buys it, that’s the value. Welcome to capitalism.

    • @radix@lemmy.world
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      30•1 month ago

      As online commentary states: I sold my car to myself for $1 million.

      The numbers don’t mean anything at all.

      • Semperverus
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        5•1 month ago

        The IRS wants their cut.

        • @fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com
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          7•1 month ago

          Rich people don’t pay taxes

    • @InverseParallax@lemmy.world
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      1•1 month ago

      https://youtu.be/sSkUxUD6xQo?t=3730

  • @JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
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    28•1 month ago

    For reference, he bought it for $44B.

    https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquisition_of_Twitter_by_Elon_Musk

    But this one doesn’t really mean anything since they’re both owned by him.

  • kbal
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    24•1 month ago

    xAI and X’s futures are intertwined — they will fall together into the howling void of pain, madness, and leveraged buyout debt, leaving Elon with only his $45 billion dollars for consolation.

  • Tony Bark
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    21•1 month ago

    He’s trying so hard to salvage that site.

    • @Letsdothisok@lemmy.world
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      -32•1 month ago

      X just had a record high number of usage a couple of months ago.

      • @Bassman27@lemmy.world
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        37•1 month ago

        Bots *

      • @A7thStone@lemmy.world
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        10•1 month ago

        Go home Elon, you’re drunk.

        • @Letsdothisok@lemmy.world
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          -11•1 month ago

          What? Don’t believe me? Go look it up. Easy

          • @Kyouki@lemmy.world
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            8•1 month ago

            No you share that source.

  • @skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de
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    11•1 month ago

    Another money laundering scheme.

  • Zerlyna
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    11•1 month ago

    Wait so X is worth more with the Nazi owning it in full?

    • The Quuuuuill
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      44•1 month ago

      he’s debt juggling

      • @ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com
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        8•1 month ago

        I suppose because he can at a moment’s notice gut the SEC and presumably now that X is incorporated in Texas and I have to assume xAI is as well(?) there’s no federal or state fraud investigation likely.

        Feels quaint that Trump in 2017 even went to the trouble of filling a table with blank papers to give the appearance of being concerned about conflicts of interest, and this outright self-dealing corruption is happening daily while nobody in power even talks about it.

      • Zerlyna
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        4•1 month ago

        Oh I know. I just hate he inflated its value with its hate.

  • @WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6•1 month ago

    Sleight of hand.

  • @ieatpwns@lemmy.world
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    4•1 month ago

    xAi got ripped off I hear x isn’t worth the servers it runs on

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