Musk Again Demands Reports from xAI Employees.
Elon Musk has returned to an old habit – emails asking for progress reports.
On Tuesday, he sent xAI employees an email demanding a one-page report by Thursday detailing their work over the past four weeks and their plans for the coming month.
This isn’t the first time Musk has done this. Last year, he sent similar emails to the X team, and even earlier, to US federal employees while advising the White House. At the time, he stated that “failure to respond will be considered resignation.” Officials later clarified that the emails were voluntary.
xAI employees don’t yet know how Musk intends to use these reports. The company has a three-hour all-hands meeting scheduled for Wednesday.
Last week, Business Insider reported that xAI laid off hundreds of employees from its data annotation team, including the “AI mentors” who trained the Grok chatbot.
Grok and the Controversy
xAI is a newcomer to the AI market, but its product, Grok, quickly gained notoriety. The chatbot is integrated into the X social network and has repeatedly found itself at the center of controversy due to questionable responses. Musk personally intervened in its operation, demanding changes.
Nevertheless, Grok has its supporters. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang called Musk an “outstanding engineer” and said he uses the bot almost daily. He believes Grok has good prospects in the AI model race.
Also, Alex Shapiro, Elon Musk’s longtime attorney, has been appointed chairman of a new Digital Assets Trust (DAT) focused on Dogecoin. According to Fortune, citing sources, the fund aims to raise at least $200 million.
According to the publication, investors have already been presented with the idea of a treasury instrument in which Dogecoin will be the primary reserve asset. The details of the structure and launch timeline are still being discussed, but the project itself could place DOGE in the same category of corporate treasury strategies that have previously helped attract billions of dollars to Bitcoin and several other cryptocurrencies.
