X Elona Muska navodno zatvara svoj ured u San Franciscu

Elon Musk reportedly plans to quit X’s San Francisco office — weeks after announcing he would move the social media company’s headquarters to Texas in his clash with California Gov. Gavin Newsom over the state’s controversial new law on gender identity of students.

In a staff memo Monday, X CEO Linda Yaccarino said the office closing will happen “over the next several weeks” and described the decision as “the right thing for our company in the long term.”

“For those who live in San Francisco, I know this will affect all of you in different ways. Leadership is actively working on plans, including transportation options, for those directly affected,” Yaccarino added in the memo, according to a copy obtained by Fortune.

Yaccarino said X would move operations to new “primary locations” for its employees in the Bay Area, including an existing office in San Jose, as well as a new “engineering-focused shared space” in Palo Alto Alto designed to house Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI.

The billionaire also blasted living conditions in crime-ridden San Francisco as he announced the move.

“I’ve had enough of dodging gangs of violent junkies just to get in and out of the building,” Musk wrote on X on July 16.

The post was directed to X for comment.

Last month, Musk announced he would move the headquarters of X and Space X to Texas, calling Newsom’s decision “the last straw.”

The new law blocks school districts from requiring teachers to notify parents of changes in a student’s gender identity or sexual orientation without the child’s permission.

Musk said he made it clear to Governor Newsom about a year ago that laws of this nature would force families and companies out of California to protect their children.

Musk has repeatedly clashed with local authorities since he bought the company formerly known as Twitter for $44 billion in late 2022.

Last year, SRI Nine Market Square, the firm that owns the building that houses X headquarters on San Francisco’s Market Street, filed suit against Musk’s firm for missing rent payments.

The owner dropped the lawsuit in March.

Separately on Monday, Musk filed a new lawsuit against OpenAI and co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman — just weeks after he dropped a similar lawsuit against the firm behind ChatGPT.

Slučaj koji je u Kaliforniji podnio Musk - koji je suosnivač OpenAI-ja 2015., ali je kasnije odstupio iz odbora zbog neslaganja oko smjera - opisuje njegov spor s Altmanom i drugima kao "priču iz udžbenika o altruizmu protiv pohlepe".

Muskovi odvjetnici tvrde da su ga OpenAI i njegovi čelnici "namjerno prevarili" da financira startup u iznosu od više od $44 milijuna u ranim godinama.

U tužbi se navodi da su Altman i njegovi saveznici rekli da će razviti naprednu umjetnu inteligenciju za dobrobit čovječanstva - samo da bi napustili tu misiju kako bi obogatili sebe i glavnog investitora Microsoft.