xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B

Re:xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B by throwaway290 on Saturday March 29, 2025 @02:34AM (#43513297)

It looks like Trump's second presidency is very different from the first and a bunch of things actually happened like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43511213, renaming of international water bodies, rugpull meme cryptocoins, DOGE and stuff it does, appointing convicted criminals to the gov, tax cuts on the rich, tariffs on allies (UK/Taiwan), pardoning darknet druglord, disappeared a Muslim student and terminated her visa apparently for coauthoring a pro-Palestinian op-ed in university newspaper (https://apnews.com/article/tufts-student-detained-massachuse...) etc.

Things are happening very quickly

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Re:xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B by lmm on Saturday March 29, 2025 @03:25AM (#43513533)

> It looks like Trump's second presidency is very different from the first

That's a pretty big backpedal from "For 10 years now, we’ve been hearing how hysterical the predictions about Trump’s actions are. And then he does them."

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Re:xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B by throwaway290 on Saturday March 29, 2025 @05:36AM (#43514095)

I didn't give those examples but stuff was happening during first presidency too (the wall, abortion, Jan 6). And now it keeps happening except more often & worse. Both can be true.

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