your government. We, as non-US majority users, are having struggles of our own. Your elected, fascist government isn't anywhere near top priority for us and you should stop thinking it is.
It's not all him, several other people invested in both. According to some article Elon owns 79% of X, and only 54% of xAI (barely enough to control it). Since the valuation of X in the deal is about $20 billion more what others have estimated ($12.3 billion), it definitely seems like it's a corrupt bailout 46% funded with other xAI investors' money, basically netting Elon $8 billion overnight.
That being said, the other investors in xAI are easy marks like Marc Andressen (famous for funding Adam Neumann's project that came after WeWork) and various Saudi Royals who possibly were convinced that this is ok.
I'm not convinced bundling a losing business with an utterly inflated one is the right move to attract investors but then again you shouldn't invest in an oligarchy in the first place.
The point is that he's got too much exposure in Xitter, plus everyone's tanking Tesla, so he's moving stuff around to try to hang on to everything he can.
So the ridiculously overvalued pump-and-dump paid for the real assets that he then destroyed but will bail out with the magical cauldron of venture capital so everything's just fine.