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Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Thursday, April 3rd. I'm Victoria Craig for the Wall Street Journal.

Elon Musk has thrown out the rulebook again, this time not in the White House, but on Wall Street with a mega merger.

Then, finding it harder to filter through Google's results these days, our tech columnist quit the world's leading search engine cold turkey, and her

results might surprise you.

First, it could be considered the biggest deal of the year, the tie-up between social media

company X and artificial intelligence startup XAI. Except it's not your

run-of-the-mill merger. That's because both companies are private and owned by billionaire tech

titan Elon Musk, and the deal has broken all the normal rules. WSJ deals reporter Ben Glickman

is helping break it all down. Ben, we'll get to the unorthodox nature of this in a second.

But just start by telling us the reason for this merger.

Well, there's already a lot of overlap between the two companies.

They share GPUs like these chips that power AI processing.

They already share some resources, and obviously they are both trying to get

a share of Musk's attention. So there is some overlap and a rationale for why they would

be working together. So plenty of synergies, I suppose we could say, but this deal is raising

lots of eyebrows for many, many reasons.

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