Elon Musk loves pressing his luck when it comes to what he can get his Tesla shareholders to do. Just a few weeks after he got them to approve a $56 billion pay package, he’s apparently asking them to indirectly bail out the investors of his social media company, X (Twitter, baby).

 

Technically, the rescue involves xAI and X, which is still dealing with the fallout of Musk’s ill-advised $44 billion takeover of the company nearly two years ago. Issues compounded when Musk announced X would own 25 percent of the artificial intelligence company. In an effort to intertwine xAI and Tesla at Tesla’s second-quarter earnings call on July 23, Musk said the automaker was “learning quite a bit” from xAI (the sixth company Musk owns), according to Bloomberg…

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