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Re:XAI to pay Telegram $300M to integrate Grok into the chat... by jedberg on Wednesday May 28, 2025 @03:34PM (#44119852)
They have nuclear bombs. A lot of them. And the person who controls them has little to lose in using them. So we have to be nice and keep that person happy.
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Re:XAI to pay Telegram $300M to integrate Grok into the chat... by hintymad on Wednesday May 28, 2025 @03:53PM (#44120056)
That's diplomacy? That does not mean that high officials and the richest people in the world bought Russia's propaganda machine, if any, or worse, get bought by Russia, right?
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Re:XAI to pay Telegram $300M to integrate Grok into the chat... by jedberg on Wednesday May 28, 2025 @03:57PM (#44120099)
Well the side effect of everyone playing nice with Putin is that he's most likely a multi-billionaire, possibly even in the top 10 richest in the world.

It's billionaires helping billionaires.

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Re:XAI to pay Telegram $300M to integrate Grok into the chat... by umbra07 on Wednesday May 28, 2025 @04:49PM (#44120518)
There's a massive jump from "multi-billiojare#" to "120 billion" (10th richest).
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Re:XAI to pay Telegram $300M to integrate Grok into the chat... by jedberg on Wednesday May 28, 2025 @09:05PM (#44122083)
Fortune (who makes the list) estimates him at $200 billion.

https://fortune.com/article/russian-president-vladimir-putin...

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