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Jessica Mathews

Elon Musk’s companies, once welcomed in Baltimore with open arms, are now getting stiff-armed—or sued

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Even a free infrastructure project wasn’t enough to convince Maryland officials to work with Elon Musk.

On Tuesday, Elon Musk’s tunneling business, the Boring Company, started discussions with city officials about building a free tunnel around the Baltimore Ravens’ football stadium. While the free project seemed like a coup for the Ravens, who had pitched it to the Boring Co., the idea was short-lived. Within nine hours of the announcement, Baltimore’s mayor and city council had filed a lawsuit against xAI, an AI company also owned by Musk, alleging that its chatbot “flooded” users’ feeds with nonconsensual intimate imagery and child sexual abuse material.

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