FIY: Bloomberg reports xAI offered employees $420 to voluntarily share their tax returns as training data for Grok ahead of the April 15 deadline, with payments not yet sent two months later. Note that "voluntarily", no employee was required to hand over tax data. xAI made an opt-in offer and employees chose to participate. The goal was straightforward. Improve Grok's tax capabilities at a time when Americans were already using Claude and ChatGPT for accounting work. xAI was competing for that market. The delayed $420 payments are an administrative issue, not a data ethics scandal. Bloomberg is treating a late payment as a policy story. Also worth noting: Bloomberg's entire story is sourced from "internal chats seen by Bloomberg News." No named sources, no on-record employees. Anonymous leaks days before the SpaceX IPO. xAI will pay what it promised. This is noise before IPO.