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ELON MUSK ASKED META CEO MARK ZUCKERBERG TO JOIN XAI BID TO BUY OPENAI, FILING SHOWS

Elon Musk asked Mark Zuckerberg to help him finance a $97.4 billion takeover of OpenAI earlier this year. Musk was incensed that the company was pushing to transform into a for-profit entity when he floated the proposal. Musk and xAI had approached Zuckerberg with a letter of intent, but neither Zuckerberg nor Meta signed it. The story was revealed in court filings in a legal case between Musk and OpenAI initiated last year to stop the startup from converting to a for-profit entity.

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Alpha School is a teacherless, homeworkless, K-12 private school in Austin, Texas. Its students have been testing in the top 0.1% nationally. They learn through self-directed coursework with AI tutoring apps for two hours a day, spending the other four hours of the school day in 'workshops' where they learn things like how to run an Airbnb or food truck, manage a brokerage account or Broadway production, or build a business or drone. Alpha School's new product, Timeback, is aimed at scaling Alpha School's concepts and results and giving students their childhoods back. Timeback will be free to everyone once it's released.

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