{"id":1008625,"date":"2026-05-19T09:25:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T03:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1008625"},"modified":"2026-05-19T09:28:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T03:58:21","slug":"elon-musks-xai-promised-staff-420-for-their-tax-returns-hasnt-paid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/19\/elon-musks-xai-promised-staff-420-for-their-tax-returns-hasnt-paid\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s xAI promised staff $420 for their tax returns, hasn\u2019t paid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk\u2019s xAI asked employees earlier this year to offer up their own tax returns as training data for the company\u2019s Grok chatbot, promising a $420 payment as incentive for doing so. Two months later, those payments still haven\u2019t materialized. <\/p>\n<p>XAI, which is in the midst of a broad overhaul, made the offer to employees to collect more data that could improve Grok\u2019s tax capabilities ahead of the April 15 US tax deadline, according to internal chats seen by Bloomberg News. Americans were already turning to rival chatbots like Anthropic PBC\u2019s Claude and OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT to handle accounting work, and xAI was rushing to compete for a slice of the market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk\u2019s xAI asked employees earlier this year to offer up their own tax returns as training data for the company\u2019s Grok chatbot, promising a $420 payment as incentive for doing so. Two months later, those payments still haven\u2019t materialized. XAI, which is in the midst of a broad overhaul, made the offer to employees to collect more data that could improve Grok\u2019s tax capabilities ahead of the April 15 US tax deadline, according to internal chats seen by Bloomberg News. Americans were already turning to rival chatbots like Anthropic PBC\u2019s Claude and OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT to handle accounting work, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}