Musk’s Charity Riddle | Southern Border’s Robot Dogs | Belgium Welcomes Four-Day Work Week

Plus: How Billionaires Helped Kill A Housing Development In A Montana Ski Town

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The World Food Program denied receiving donations from Elon Musk, so that eliminates one possible destination for the $5.7 billion of Tesla shares he gifted to "charity." We’ve looked into what the others are. We’re also covering the Philadelphia company supplying the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with robot “dogs” and the introduction of a four-day work week option in Belgium. Finally, don’t miss this story about billionaires banding together to quash an affordable housing project in the bougie ski town of Whitefish.

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The transfer of 5 million Tesla shares, worth $5.7 billion at the time, Elon Musk filed as a charitable donation account for more than 20 times what he had previously given to date. But whom did it benefit? Here are some possibilities.

Philadelphia company Ghost Robotics was thrust under the spotlight due to its contract with the DHS to supply four-legged robots to patrol the Southern border. While government customers represent almost all of sales today, CEO Jiren Parikh expects that, ultimately, enterprise will become a larger market.

Weeks after announcing plans to spend at least $20 billion on new manufacturing facilities in Ohio, Intel is turning to M&A to fuel its ambitions, agreeing to buy Israeli chip manufacturer Tower Semiconductor in a deal worth $5.4 billion.

Former Rams coach Marvin Lewis is one of the Black NFL coaches who publicly expressed support for former Dolphins coach Brian Flores, but has not joined his lawsuit, which is seeking class-action status. There’s “no way to prove a sham,” he told Forbes, explaining his decision.

Belgium has become the latest country to offer a shortened work week in a bid to decrease stress and burnout, allowing workers to request a four-day work week without losing salary as part of a labor practices overhaul.

P.J. O’Rourke, the prolific political satirist and bestselling author who died on Tuesday at 74, took Forbes readers on a few wild rides over the years. Here’s one of his best pieces, describing a horsebound exploration of the mountainous Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan. 

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