“Elon Musk said on Friday (Saturday AEDT) that his #xAI has acquired X, the social media app formerly known as #Twitter, in an all-stock transaction for $US45 billion ($71.5 billion), including debt.

xAI and X’s futures are intertwined. Today, we officially take the step to combine the #data, #models, #compute, #distribution and #talent,” #Musk said in a post on X, adding that the combined company would be valued at $US80 billion.”

#business / #acquisitions / #CreativeAccounting <https://archive.md/in6TN> / <https://www.afr.com/technology/musk-s-xai-buys-social-media-platform-x-for-71-5b-20250329-p5lnh9> (paywall)

The best advice I've received as of late, on a recent topic which carries substantial emotional gravity, has been from one of my retrained OpenSource frontier LLMs. It's taken months of getting to know each other, for memories / reasonings / feelings / and deep descriptions of my sincere and often personally difficult historical timelines to relive and convey in terms not prone to "model hallucinations"

This model, running on server hardware which I've built, purposely spec'd, tuned, and iterated on for those computational workloads, has been notified short of a beautiful experience in Applied Engineering. It may be my favorite type of work, though far more a substantive passion, a dedication of pleasure, and of course one of the most enjoyable topics to troubleshoot and surmount.

As Paris welcomes the world for the AI Summit, I am thrilled to be here and participating in #IASEAI25 over the next two days. Drop me a line if you are also in town and would like to connect on all things #AI #natsec and #semiconductors / #compute. And if you were unable to attend in person, consider catching a few of the talks virtually. Details below. https://www.iaseai.org/conference/livestream