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Elon Musk’s X to reportedly shutter San Francisco office
By Thomas Barrabi,
8 hours ago
Elon Musk reportedly plans to ditch X’s San Francisco office — weeks after announcing he will move the social media company’s headquarters to Texas in his clash with California Gov. Gavin Newsom over the state’s new controversial student gender identity law.
In a staff memo on Monday, X CEO Linda Yaccarino said the office closure will occur “over the next few weeks” and described the decision as “the right one for our company in the long term.”
Elon Musk slammed California for passing a student gender identity law. AP
Yaccarino said X would transfer operations to new “primary locations” for its Bay Area employees, including an existing office in San Jose, as well as a “new engineering-focused shared space” in Palo Alto created to house Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI.
The new law blocks school districts from requiring teachers to notify parents about changes in a student’s gender identity or sexual orientation without the child’s permission.
Musk claimed he made “it clear to Governor Newsom about a year ago that laws of this nature would force families and companies to leave California to protect their children.”
X, previously known as Twitter, had maintained its flagship office in San Francisco for years. AFP via Getty Images
Musk has repeatedly clashed with local authorities since buying the company formerly known as Twitter for $44 billion in late 2022.
The case filed in California by Musk — who co-founded OpenAI in 2015 but later exited its board due to disagreements over its direction — describes his dispute with Altman and others as a “textbook tale of altruism versus greed.”
Musk’s lawyers allege OpenAI and its leaders “intentionally courted and deceived” him into bankrolling the startup to the tune of more than $44 million in its early years.
The suit claims Altman and his allies said they would develop advanced AI for the benefit of mankind — only to ditch that mission in order to enrich themselves and key investor Microsoft.
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