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🚀 Elon Raised $6 Billion
PLUS: Amazon Fresh Slashes Prices, Cue Health Lays Off Remaining Workers
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Elon Musk's AI startup xAI raises $6 billion to compete with ChatGPT and other AI giants (link)
Amazon, Walmart, and Target slash prices on thousands of items to win back customers after years of inflation-driven price hikes (link)
California tech company Cue Health, once worth $2.3 billion, lays off all remaining employees (link)
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🗞️ News
Elon Raised $6 Billion
Elon Musk's xAI secures $6 billion in funding for AI supercomputer development, challenging competitors like ChatGPT. The startup aims to accelerate product launches and future tech research. Investors include Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital. Musk denies previous reports, emphasizing xAI's $18 billion valuation and ambitious AI initiatives.
The funding will help xAI build advanced infrastructure and bring its first products, like the Grok chatbot, to market. Musk has expressed a desire to focus on AI and robotics outside of Tesla, as the company faces a shareholder vote on his $56 billion pay package.
Amazon Fresh Slashes Prices
Amazon Fresh announced plans to cut prices on 4,000 weekly rotating grocery products by up to 30%. The move follows similar discounts by Walmart, Target, Aldi, and Kroger. Retailers feel pressure from weak sales due to high prices.
Price cuts aim to lure back customers and capitalize on increased reliance on groceries. Some argue companies raised prices to increase margins beyond inflation costs.
Cue Health Lays Off Remaining Workers
Cue Health, once valued at $2.3 billion, has announced the layoff of its entire workforce effective Friday, May 24, 2024. The San Diego-based medical tech company, which thrived during the COVID-19 pandemic, has been steadily reducing its staff since January 2023 due to declining demand for its test devices.
The mass layoff comes after the company lost hundreds of millions of dollars over the past two years and received a warning from the FDA about the reliability of its COVID-19 tests.
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