{"id":935553,"date":"2025-05-31T11:26:42","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T05:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=935553"},"modified":"2025-05-31T11:26:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T05:56:42","slug":"a-musk-telegram-ai-pact-sets-the-stage-for-more-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/05\/31\/a-musk-telegram-ai-pact-sets-the-stage-for-more-drama\/","title":{"rendered":"A Musk-Telegram AI Pact Sets the Stage for More Drama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s hard to find a pair of tech billionaires more alike than Elon Musk and Pavel Durov. Both are staunch libertarians who run large social media platforms with minimal content moderation, and both champion themselves as defenders of free speech. Both are also pro-natalists, with Durov claiming to have fathered more than 100 biological children through sperm donation.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an ideological match made in heaven \u2014 and perhaps in business too. Durov this week announced a one-year partnership with Musk\u2019s xAI, in which the latter artificial intelligence lab would pay Telegram $300 million in cash and equity to integrate its Grok chatbot into the messaging app. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s hard to find a pair of tech billionaires more alike than Elon Musk and Pavel Durov. Both are staunch libertarians who run large social media platforms with minimal content moderation, and both champion themselves as defenders of free speech. Both are also pro-natalists, with Durov claiming to have fathered more than 100 biological children through sperm donation. It\u2019s an ideological match made in heaven \u2014 and perhaps in business too. Durov this week announced a one-year partnership with Musk\u2019s xAI, in which the latter artificial intelligence lab would pay Telegram $300 million in cash and equity to integrate its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-935553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935553","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=935553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=935553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=935553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=935553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}