Details reported today suggest to me he's more than just a billionaire edgelord:
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/08/tech/elon-musk-xai-digital-un...
> Musk has pushed back against guardrails for Grok [...] Musk has “been unhappy about over-censoring” on Grok “for a long time.” [...] At one meeting in recent weeks before the latest controversy erupted, Musk held a meeting with xAI staffers from various teams where he “was really unhappy” over restrictions on Grok’s Imagine image and video generator
...how are the shareholders not in revolt over this?
I haven't read much about Tim Cook being anywhere near the level of sycophant, or raising the curtain to show the ugliness behind, as much as some of the others.
Musk is malevolent and Theal is a malevolent shit, but has the ability to be discrete about it.