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Billionaire tech giant Elon Musk was mocked with a giant, unflattering inflatable doll in the middle of New York City's Times Square, according to multiple reports.

The 40-foot effigy had "SPACEX's GROK MAKES AI CHILD PORN" written across Musk's shirtless belly, and under his sagging cleavage, Reuters photos show. His back had the same protest scrawled across the inflatable effigy's back, along with the name "Elon" on the back of its baseball cap.

The messages referred to the AI chatbot, Grok, available through X. It also came as a highly anticipated IPO on SpaceX, which is expected to make Musk the first trillionaire, Wired noted....

The countdown to the new year in Times Square is getting some high-profile help from U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. The organizers of the annual celebration said Sunday that Sotomayor will lead the final 60-second countdown and push the ceremonial button to signal the descent of the Times Square New Year's Eve ball. The giant New Year's Eve ball is covered in more than 2,600 crystal triangles and lit from within by more than 32,000 lights.

Today in Manhattan's Times Square pedestrians became dancers as a "flash mob" convened to honor Don Cornelius, the host of the popular TV show "Soul Train." Cornelius passed away earlier this week in Los Angeles of an apparent suicide.

A group of Jedi and Sith took to New York City's Times Square on Tuesday night to do battle and strike dramatic poses.

"Occupy Wall Street" protesters are currently marching into Times Square. This live feed is embedded via Livestream: