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Jake Swearingen
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Friday night massacre: Scoop from Grace Kay that Elon Musk's xAI just laid off hundreds of workers tasked with training Grok late today, after asking many to take tests Thursday evening www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-xa...
Elon Musk's xAI lays off hundreds of workers tasked with training Grok
XAI laid off at least 500 of the workers on its data annotation team on Friday night.
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Hey, this was great! Really enjoyed the atmosphere around it. Look forward to what you do next.
Loved editing this from @thenewsham.bsky.social and Laura Italiano where 350 NYC lawyers libbed out hard over Trump resistance and swapped Signal tips over passed apps. Small(er) Law rebellion was in full force — Big Law's capitulators mostly absent. www.businessinsider.com/new-york-cit...
Fun look at @businessinsider.com on Tesla's Cybertruck rebrand from space-age oddity to blue-collar work truck — including Tesla using almost 1:1 remakes of Ford F-150 glamour shots.

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Great scoop from @thenewsham.bsky.social and @jayshams.bsky.social — Trump says Paul Weiss banned DEI. The firm's internal memo doesn't.

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they made an ai game where you can talk to the patients but forgot to add in prompt safety controls
Grace Kay with a scoop: Internal documents reveal Marko Elez, who left DOGE after posts like "I was racist before it was cool" were found and then was rehired by Elon, was on the org chart at xAI, meaning Elez worked at 3 out of 6 of Musk's companies www.businessinsider.com/marko-elez-d...
Marko Elez, who left DOGE amid social media controversy, worked for xAI
Internal documents reveal Elon Musk's xAI startup employed Marko Elez, who resigned from DOGE after being linked to inflammatory social media posts.
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We also found white collar folks like lawyers, managers, etc raking it in. Lil Wayne's grant paid $5.3M to managers, accountants & attorneys - 13 times what went to his drummer, sound techs & other contractors who actually put on his shows.
When we reached out to Lil Wayne for comment, he... made a sexually explicit overture to our reporter. Chuck Schumer, who championed this on Corden as helping "middle-class people" and "young artists," later got a Grammy award for creating the program, declined to comment.
Inside the SBA, employees who worked on the program were told "shut up, sit down, process the file." Only $43M of money has been recouped. That number hasn't budged since July.
David Walker, former US comptroller general, reviewed our findings and said, "At a minimum, it smells." One firm, NKSFB, helped clients get $207M(!) in grants. When staff called it "bullshit" internally & worried about perjury, leadership spun it as "outside-the-box thinking." Their cut: $7M
Alice in Chains members paid themselves $3.4M right after making $48M selling their catalog. Their longtime guitar tech Scott Dachroeden — exactly who this grant was meant to help — had to use GoFundMe when he got cancer. He died shortly after, uninsured.
Lil Wayne got $8.9M in taxpayer money and spent it on private jets ($1.3M), designer clothes ($460k), and luxury hotels. He even billed $88k for a NYE show he ghosted. Chris Brown used COVID funds to throw an $80k birthday party with "atmosphere models" and $29k in bottle service.
Last year @thenewsham.bsky.social and @klong.bsky.social found a COVID relief fund meant for struggling arts venues gave $200M+ to rich musicians. We didn't know HOW they spent it—until now. After reviewing thousands of pages of receipts & internal accounting docs, oh boy... 🧵
How rich musicians billed American taxpayers for luxury hotels, shopping sprees, and million-dollar bonuses
Pop stars took advantage of the SVOG grant, using COVID relief funds for luxury spending. Lil Wayne bought Balenciaga and flew private.
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