Pentagon Selects SpaceX for $100 Million Drone Swarming Competition

Trader Edge / parameter - TLDR SpaceX and xAI selected for Pentagon’s $100 million autonomous drone technology competition Six-month contest launched January 2026 to develop voice-command systems for multiple drones SpaceX acquired xAI before entering competition and ahead of plan…

18 days / techxplore

UK thermal intelligence startup SatVu secures €34 million to scale multi-satellite constellation

David Cendon Garcia / eu-startups - SatVu, a London-based thermal intelligence company that reveals operational activity and infrastructure performance from space, has closed a €34 million (£30 million) funding round bringing its total equity funding to €68 million (£60 million), as it acce…

#innovation #analytics #defensetech #space #government #business #aerospace #uk #camera #satellite

UK thermal intelligence startup SatVu secures €34 million to scale multi-satellite constellation

18 days / eu-startups / David Cendon Garcia

SatVu raises £30M led by NATO Innovation Fund to build thermal imaging constellation

18 days / techfundingnews / Abhinaya Prabhu

SatVu closes a £30M funding round to accelerate its multi-satellite constellation

18 days / tech / Tamara Djurickovic

NASA confirms target date for crewed Artemis II lunar flight

digitaltrends - NASA has announced a date for the second wet dress rehearsal for the SLS rocket that will send a crew of astronauts on a voyage around the moon in the highly anticipated Artemis II mission. The space agency also confirmed that the earliest the rocket coul…

#nasa #astronauts #science #health #government #astronomy #aerospace #us #engineering #safety

NASA to Run Critical Artemis 2 Fueling Test Despite Pesky Technical Issues

17 days / gizmodo / Ellyn Lapointe

NASA confirms target date for crewed Artemis II lunar flight

18 days / digitaltrends

NASA’s Latest Attempt to Resolve Moon Rocket’s Fueling Problems Didn’t Go As Planned

18 days / gizmodo / Passant Rabie

The Artemis II Astronauts Are Being Quarantined For A Very Important Reason

18 days / bgr

Italian AviationTech startup Intuos raises €720k to scale fleet operations platform internationally

David Cendon Garcia / eu-startups - Rome-based startup Intuos, the developer of an integrated platform for aircraft fleet operators that combines operational software and IoT devices with ML-based analytics, has closed a €720k investment round following its expansion in Europe and South Afr…

#bigdata #startups #vc #iot #analytics #saas #aviation #aerospace #europe #safety

Passive RFIDs can now stream telemetry data from sensors

18 days / theregister / Simon Sharwood

Intuos Raises €720K To Enhance Non-Commercial Aviation Safety And Operations

18 days / startuprise / Kailee Rainse

Italian AviationTech startup Intuos raises €720k to scale fleet operations platform internationally

18 days / eu-startups / David Cendon Garcia

Pilot-built Intuos zips €720K from Techstars for IoT safety push in small aircraft

19 days / techfundingnews / Vignesh R

Intuos receives €720K for non-commercial aviation operations and safety

19 days / tech / Tamara Djurickovic

Watch the NASA SpaceX Crew-12 mission dock with the ISS

Mariella Moon / engadget - The Crew-12 mission, SpaceX’s 20th human spaceflight, launched at 5:15 AM Eastern on February 13 from Cape Canaveral in Florida. It’s expected to dock with the International Space Station today, February 14, at 3:15 PM, and you can watch the event below a…

#space #nasa #astronauts #iss #aerospace #engineering #research

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19 days / bsky / @arstechnica.com / arstechnica.com

Space Station returns to a full crew complement after a month

19 days / arstechnica / Eric Berger

Four new astronauts arrive at the ISS to replace NASA's evacuated crew

20 days / go

Watch the NASA SpaceX Crew-12 mission dock with the ISS

20 days / engadget / Mariella Moon

Laser weapon that shut down El Paso's skies was LOCUST system

Colin Demarest / axios - The counter-drone weapon that caused a shutdown of El Paso's airspace on Wednesday was AeroVironment's LOCUST, a 20-kilowatt laser system, Axios has confirmed.Why it matters: The Army sees the cutting-edge weapon as a way to combat drones without firing e…

#techpolicy #defensetech #government #aviation #aerospace #DHS #immigration #drone #faa #regulation

Startup in spotlight: How INLEAP’s lasers protect critical infrastructure from drones

22 days / techfundingnews / Sofia Chesnokova

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22 days / bsky / @tambria.bsky.social / tambria.bsky.social

Laser weapon that shut down El Paso's skies was LOCUST system

22 days / axios / Colin Demarest

Oracle suits up for Air Force Cloud One program with $88M contract

22 days / theregister / Dan Robinson

El Paso airspace closure was reportedly triggered by the CBP’s use of an anti-drone laser

22 days / theverge / Emma Roth

Six xAI Co-Founders Exit Amid Grok Controversy, SpaceX Merger

David Curry / eweek - Six of xAI’s 12 co-founders have left as Musk reshapes the Grok maker after SpaceX’s xAI deal, raising fresh questions about stability.The post Six xAI Co-Founders Exit Amid Grok Controversy, SpaceX Merger appeared first on eWEEK.

#ai #startups #aiethics #genai #business #aerospace #layoffs #xai #elonmusk #grokai

Musk needed a new vision for SpaceX and xAI. He landed on Moonbase Alpha.

22 days / techcrunch / Tim Fernholz

Realfood.gov includes a Grok search box

22 days / ycombinator

Takeaways from Elon Musks xAI all-hands meeting

22 days / mashable

Elon Musk paints exodus of xAI co-founders as 'evolution'

22 days / theregister / Richard Speed

Six xAI Co-Founders Exit Amid Grok Controversy, SpaceX Merger

23 days / eweek / David Curry

With Europe seeking greater defense and space autonomy, Deep Space Energy secures €930k to advance lunar energy tech

David Cendon Garcia / eu-startups - Riga-based SpaceTech startup Deep Space Energy has raised a total €930k to further develop a radioisotopic generator toward commercialisation, in a bid to strengthen the European sovereign space and defense industry and power Moon surface exploration. The…

#startups #defensetech #space #energy #business #aerospace #deeptech #europe #engineering #technology

With Europe seeking greater defense and space autonomy, Deep Space Energy secures €930k to advance lunar energy tech

23 days / eu-startups / David Cendon Garcia

Deep Space Energy raises €930K for 5x more efficient RTGs

24 days / techfundingnews / Vignesh R

Deep Space Energy Raises €930K in Pre-Seed Funding

24 days / finsmes / FinSMEs

El Paso flights grounded 10 days for ‘special security reasons’

Dominic Preston / theverge - The Federal Aviation Administration has closed the airspace around El Paso International Airport in Texas, grounding all flights in and out of the airport for the next 10 days. No explanation for the closure has been given, beyond a vague reference to "Sp…

#government #aviation #aerospace #DHS #us #travel #police #law #emergencyservices #faa

FAA Closure & Reopening (5)
Military & Drone Assertions (3)
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FAA Closure & Reopening

FAA reopens El Paso airspace after its abrupt closure

23 days / axios / Avery Lotz

Feds halt flights to major Texas airport for 10 days without explanation

24 days / arstechnica / Eric Berger

El Paso flights grounded 10 days for ‘special security reasons’

24 days / theverge / Dominic Preston

Unusual FAA restriction closes El Paso airspace for 10 days

24 days / axios / Alex Fitzpatrick

FAA closes airspace around El Paso, Texas, for 10 days, grounding all flights

24 days / ycombinator

Military & Drone Assertions

One Mexican Cartel ‘Drone’ Near El Paso Airspace Was Actually Party Balloon: Report

23 days / gizmodo / Matt Novak

US takes military action against drone incursion in Texas

23 days / ft

El Paso airspace shutdown sparked by "military activity" near border

23 days / axios / Marc Caputo

All Other Stories

BREAKING: FAA reopens El Paso airspace after abrupt closure

23 days / bsky / @axios.com / axios.com

"The order was reversed around eight hours later without an explanation for what caused it. Early indications point to a communications breakdown between the FAA and the Pentagon." Translation: Pete Hegseth is drunk again.

23 days / bsky / @paul.bsky.social / paul.bsky.social

El Paso airspace shutdown sparked by "military activity" near border www.axios.com/2026/02/11/e...

23 days / bsky / @knittingknots.bsky.social / knittingknots.bsky.social

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23 days / bsky / @arstechnica.com / arstechnica.com

is the USA INVADING MEXICO? arstechnica.com/space/2026/0...

23 days / bsky / @chronosschiron.bsky.social / chronosschiron.bsky.social

Defence startup testing AI drones with Ukraine raises £2.6m

Oscar Hornstein / uktech - Occam, a UK-based defence tech startup developing AI autonomous drones being tested with the Ukrainian military, has raised a £2.6m investment. Founded in 2025, Occam is one of many tech firms founded to meet the defence needs of modern geopolitcal confli…

#ai #startups #vc #robotics #automation #defensetech #aerospace #uk #ukraine #drone

Defence startup testing AI drones with Ukraine raises £2.6m

24 days / uktech / Oscar Hornstein

London’s Occam Raises €3 M To Advance Autonomous Drone Technology For Defence

24 days / startuprise / Kailee Rainse

London-based DefenceTech startup Occam raises €3 million to support frontline drone autonomy in Ukraine

24 days / eu-startups / Rahul Raj

Occam lands €3M to scale autonomous drone ops built for GPS-denied battlefields

24 days / techfundingnews / Abhinaya Prabhu

xAI Cofounder Tony Wu Resigns Days After $1.25 Trillion SpaceX Merger

Marcus Schuler / implicator - Tony Wu resigned from xAI on Monday, becoming at least the fifth cofounder to leave Musk's AI startup. His exit comes days after SpaceX acquired xAI in a $1.25 trillion deal.

#ai #startups #vc #business #aerospace #jobs #acquisitions #technology #xai #elonmusk

Musk hints at lunar ambitions (1)
Tony Wu takes his leave (5)
Widespread co-founder exodus (7)
All Other Stories

24 days / cnbc

Co-founders of Musk’s xAI join exodus from start-up’s tech team

24 days / ft

Nearly half of xAI’s founding team has now left the company

24 days / techcrunch / Russell Brandom

All Other Stories

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24 days / bsky / @arstechnica.com / arstechnica.com

SpaceX Prioritizes Lunar 'Self-Growing City' Over Mars Project, Musk Says

EditorDavid / slashdot - "Elon Musk said on Sunday that SpaceX has shifted its focus to building a 'self-growing city' on the moon," reports Reuters, "which could be achieved in less than 10 years."SpaceX still intends to start on Musk's long-held ambition of a city on Mars withi…

#startups #innovation #business #astronomy #aerospace #mars #technology #elonmusk #satellite #faa

Can Elon Musk really launch data centres into space?

25 days / ft

Elon Musk launches grand ‘moon city’ plan

25 days / news.com.au

o nazi quis marte, fica-se pela lua. provavelmente quer erguer um santuário lunar para fachos - com a raiva q os bichos espumam pelos cantos da boca, seria coisa para durar 2 meses antes da autodestruição. é criar essa cidade para ontem! e exportá-los! a

25 days / bsky / @ohorrorohorror.bsky.social / ohorrorohorror.bsky.social

Unable to Reach Mars, Musk Does the Most Musk Thing Possible

25 days / gizmodo / Ellyn Lapointe

SpaceX Moon City Replaces Mars: Musk Sets 2027 Landing Date

25 days / parameter / Trader Edge

Why would Elon Musk pivot from Mars to the Moon all of a sudden?

25 days / arstechnica / Eric Berger

SpaceX back to Falcon 9 launches as Musk eyes 'self-growing' Moon city

25 days / theregister / Richard Speed

SpaceX is pivoting to focus on a moon base before Mars

25 days / engadget / Andre Revilla

SpaceX Prioritizes Lunar 'Self-Growing City' Over Mars Project, Musk Says

26 days / slashdot / EditorDavid

SpaceX Acquires xAI: How Much Is The Combined Company Worth?

slashgear - Two Elon Musk-owned companies, SpaceX and xAI, have begun a massive merger. What will be the result of the combination and how much will it be worth?

#ai #vc #space #stockmarket #business #aerospace #deeptech #technology #xai #elonmusk

SpaceX Acquires xAI: How Much Is The Combined Company Worth?

27 days / slashgear

20-gigawatt Chinese microwave weapon touted as ‘Starlink’s worst nightmare’ by country's media — portable 5-ton device can deliver full-minute destructive bursts

27 days / tomshardware

Elon Musk wants to be a trillionaire — here's how SpaceX may get him there

28 days / cnbc

Elon Musk Is Betting Another Tech Conglomerate (His) Can Win Over Wall St.

28 days / nytimes / Kate Conger and Jack Ewing

Elon Musk is getting serious about orbital data centers

Russell Brandom / techcrunch - We’re starting to see the idea of Musk-owned orbital AI data clusters cohere into an actual plan.

#ai #cloud #space #energy #datacenter #aerospace #deeptech #supercomputers #elonmusk #satellite

Opinion | Elon Is Always Selling . . . Like any Revolutionary

28 days / wsj / Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.

Voyager Technologies CEO says space data center cooling problem still needs to be solved

29 days / cnbc

SpaceX files FCC plans for a million satellite data center network

29 days / dataconomy / Aytun Çelebi

SpaceX absorbs xAI in $1.25T merger ahead of record IPO this year 2026

29 days / betanews / Camila Nogueira

Inside Elon Musk’s $1.25 Trillion AI and Space Megamerger

29 days / wsj / Alexander Saeedy

Logos Space gets FCC approval for 4,000+ satellites

29 days / advanced-television / Editor

Starlink targeted in geopolitical conflicts

29 days / semafor / J.D. Capelouto

Elon Musk Says the Current Pace of AI Expansion Will “Force” the Need for Orbital Data Centers, But Chips Will Then Become the Major Bottleneck

29 days / wccftech / Muhammad Zuhair

Elon Musk is getting serious about orbital data centers

29 days / techcrunch / Russell Brandom

SpaceX wants to fill Earth orbit with a million datacenter satellites

29 days / theregister / Brandon Vigliarolo

Russian Spy Satellites Have Intercepted EU Communications Satellites

msmash / slashdot - European security officials believe two Russian space vehicles have intercepted the communications of at least a dozen key satellites over the continent. From a report: Officials believe that the likely interceptions, which have not previously been report…

#cybersecurity #defensetech #aerospace #security #europe #russia #telecommunications #encryption #eu #satellite

Russia suspected of intercepting EU satellites

4 wks / semafor / Tom Chivers

Russian Spy Satellites Have Intercepted EU Communications Satellites

4 wks / slashdot / msmash

Russian spy satellites have intercepted EU communications satellites

4 wks / arstechnica / Sam Jones, Peggy Hollinger, and Ian Bott, Financial Times

Russian Luch satellites target European vital connectivity

4 wks / telecomstechnews / Ryan Daws

Elon Musk is merging SpaceX and xAI to build data centers in space — or so he says

Andrew J. Hawkins / theverge - On Monday, Elon Musk announced that he was merging two of his companies, SpaceX and xAI, in a deal said to be worth $1.25 trillion. The reason, Musk said in an announcement, was that in order for AI to grow, it needed to go to space. AI relies on "large t…

#ai #cloud #edge #space #business #datacenter #aerospace #xai #elonmusk #satellite

Financial and market shakeup (3)
Legal & regulatory clashes (3)
Orbital data center vision (5)
Technical skepticism, safety concerns (2)

Financial and market shakeup

Musk merges xAI into SpaceX as AI burn rate hits $9B, eyes €1.4T IPO windfall

4 wks / techfundingnews / Vignesh R

Analysts label SpaceX-xAI merger as an “instant bailout” for Musk’s AI firm

4 wks / dataconomy / Kerem Gülen

'Muskonomy' shakeup: SpaceX valuation approaches Tesla's after merger with xAI

4 wks / cnbc

Legal & regulatory clashes

UK to properly probe xAI to test if its revolting robo-smut generator broke the law

4 wks / theregister / Simon Sharwood

X’s Paris HQ raided by French cybercrime officers over Grok chatbot

4 wks / siliconangle / James Farrell

xAI accused of destroying evidence in OpenAI & Apple antitrust lawsuit

4 wks / appleinsider

Orbital data center vision

The Out-of-This-World Reasons for Elon Musk’s SpaceX Deal

4 wks / wsj / Tim Higgins

Elon Musk is merging SpaceX and xAI to build data centers in space — or so he says

4 wks / theverge / Andrew J. Hawkins

Elon Musk Aims for Orbital Data Centers After Record-Setting Merger

4 wks / eweek / Aminu Abdullahi

Elon Musk's SpaceX Is Acquiring xAI With Big Plans for Data Centers in Space

4 wks / cnet / Omar Gallaga

Elon Musk links SpaceX and xAI in a record-setting merger to boost AI

4 wks / reddit / /u/sksarkpoes3

Technical skepticism, safety concerns

Garman vs. Musk: AWS CEO counters SpaceX-xAI space data center vision

4 wks / dataconomy / Emre Çıtak

Elon Musk's Grok heads to space

4 wks / qz / Shannon Carroll

NASA moves Artemis 2 launch to March after hydrogen leak during testing

Mariella Moon / engadget - NASA started making the final preparations for the Artemis 2 mission in early January, with the hopes of opening its launch window as soon as February 6. After issues showed up during the mission’s wet dress rehearsal in the early hours of February 3, how…

#nasa #astronauts #science #government #aerospace #engineering #technology #safety

While NASA’s lunar dreams wait, another crew eyes orbit

4 wks / digitaltrends

NASA Delays Artemis II To March

4 wks / slashdot / msmash

NASA aims for March Artemis 2 launch after test ends early

4 wks / mashable

NASA delays Artemis 2 lunar mission to March after hydrogen leak

4 wks / dataconomy / Emre Çıtak

Well, Astronauts Won’t Be Going Back to the Moon This Month

4 wks / gizmodo / Ellyn Lapointe

NASA moves Artemis 2 launch to March after hydrogen leak during testing

4 wks / engadget / Mariella Moon

NASA delays Artemis II to March after hydrogen leaks bedevil countdown test

4 wks / theregister / Richard Speed

Unable to tame hydrogen leaks, NASA delays launch of Artemis II until March

4 wks / arstechnica / Stephen Clark

Elon Musk's SpaceX acquiring AI startup xAI ahead of potential IPO

cnbc - Musk is combining rocket maker SpaceX with his AI startup, the largest tie-up in his expansive business portfolio.

#ai #startups #space #genai #stockmarket #business #aerospace #xai #elonmusk #satellite

Crypto & Recruiting (2)
Mega IPO & Valuation (18)
Merger Announcements (20)
Orbital AI Infrastructure (16)
Other (1)
All Other Stories

Crypto & Recruiting

Elon Musk’s xAI opens crypto expert role amid $1.25 trillion SpaceX merger

4 wks / theblock / Brian Danga

Elon Musk's xAI is hiring crypto specialists to train its AI models

4 wks / coindesk / Shaurya Malwa

Mega IPO & Valuation

Musk's xAI, SpaceX combo is the biggest merger of all time, valued at $1.25 trillion

4 wks / cnbc

Musk Negotiates With Musk. Software Bleeds Out.

4 wks / implicator / Marcus Schuler

How Musk used SpaceX to rescue xAI and build a $1.25tn colossus

4 wks / ft

Musk merges xAI and SpaceX to form $1.2T company

4 wks / semafor / Tom Chivers

Elon Musk merges money-losing xAI into SpaceX before mega IPO

4 wks / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

Elon Musk’s SpaceX lands $1.25trn valuation after xAI acquisition

4 wks / siliconrepublic / Suhasini Srinivasaragavan

Musk Merged SpaceX With xAI. His Investors Paid the Bill.

4 wks / implicator / Marcus Schuler

Musk's SpaceX–xAI mega deal sharpens focus on bitcoin accounting ahead of IPO

4 wks / coindesk / Shaurya Malwa

SpaceX Acquires xAI in $1.25 Trillion All-Stock Deal

4 wks / slashdot / msmash

SpaceX acquires xAI in $1.25 trillion deal, creating world's most valuable private company

4 wks / implicator / Harkaram Grewal

SpaceX + xAI = $1 Trillion Empire

4 wks / theresanaiforthat / There's An AI For That

Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceX—Creating the World’s Most Valuable Private Company

4 wks / wired / Maxwell Zeff

SpaceX acquiring AI startup xAI ahead of potential IPO

4 wks / reddit / /u/Luka77GOATic

Elon Musk's SpaceX acquiring AI startup xAI ahead of potential IPO

4 wks / cnbc

Musk wants to merge SpaceX with xAI, then take it public

4 wks / pivot-to-ai / David Gerard

Elon Musk’s SpaceX to Combine With xAI Ahead of Mega IPO

4 wks / reddit / /u/MysteriousEdge5643

SpaceX to merge with xAI, seek an IPO valuation of $1.25 trillion, Bloomberg reports

4 wks / sherwood / Nate Becker

SpaceX Reportedly in Talks to Merge with xAI to Form $1T Tech Giant

4 wks / iphoneincanada / Austin Blake

Merger Announcements

The xAI-SpaceX merger, Palantir earnings, China's frowning horses and more in Morning Squawk

4 wks / cnbc

The Morning After: Elon Musk’s SpaceX is buying his AI company, xAI

4 wks / engadget / Mat Smith

Elon Musk’s SpaceX acquires Elon Musks xAI, including social media platform X

4 wks / mashable

xAI joins SpaceX in mega-merger

4 wks / therundown / Zach Mink

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Acquires AI Start-Up xAI

4 wks / startuprise / Kailee Rainse

Musk merges SpaceX with xAI

4 wks / advanced-television / Editor

SpaceX and xAI Are Merging Into a Very Silly-Sounding Conglomerate. Take It Seriously

4 wks / gizmodo / Mike Pearl

Elon Musk merges xAI into SpaceX to spread universal consciousness via a sentient sun

4 wks / theregister / Tobias Mann

SpaceX to take over Elon Musk's AI firm

4 wks / bbc

Elon Musk Merges SpaceX With His A.I. Start-Up xAI

4 wks / nytimes / Ryan Mac, Kate Conger, Maureen Farrell and Rob Copeland

SpaceX buys xAI to unite crucial parts of Musk’s empire

4 wks / ft

Elon Musk says he is merging SpaceX with artificial-intelligence company xAI

4 wks / go

Elon Musk Says SpaceX Has Acquired xAI

4 wks / wsj / Micah Maidenberg

Elon Musk's SpaceX has acquired his AI company, xAI

4 wks / engadget / Karissa Bell

Elon Musk Merges SpaceX With His A.I. Start-Up xAI

4 wks / nytimes / Ryan Mac, Kate Conger, Maureen Farrell and Rob Copeland

Elon Musk's SpaceX to merge with xAI

4 wks / axios / Axios

Correction, what I meant to say was: "And it now seems inevitable that xAI merges with one of them IN FOUR DAYS to be able to continue on in this race..." https://spyglass.org/the-anyone-but-google-ai-alliance/

4 wks / bsky / @mgsiegler.com

Elon Musk merges SpaceX with xAI (and X)

4 wks / theverge / Jay Peters

xAI joins SpaceX

4 wks / ycombinator

Reading between the lines on the latest SpaceX merger report and Musk’s cryptic tweet

4 wks / sherwood / Nate Becker

Orbital AI Infrastructure

SpaceX Acquires xAI to Build Orbital Data Center Constellation

4 wks / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

SpaceX acquires xAI in a bid to make orbiting data centers a reality — Musk plans to launch a million tons of satellites annually, targets 1TW/year of space-based compute capacity

4 wks / tomshardware

SpaceX acquires xAI at $1.25T for space data centers

4 wks / dataconomy / Emre Çıtak

Elon Musk merges xAI into SpaceX with plans for space-based AI infrastructure

4 wks / techspot

SpaceX Buys xAI To Move AI Into Space: What We Still Don’t Know

4 wks / medianama / Aakriti Bansal

Musk's xAI needs SpaceX deal for the money. Data centers in space are still a dream

4 wks / cnbc

SpaceX Acquires xAI to Pursue AI Data Centers in Space

4 wks / reddit / /u/i-drake

Musk Folds xAI Into SpaceX, Cites Limits on Earth-Based AI Infrastructure

4 wks / decrypt / Jason Nelson

SpaceX Aims for Data Centers in Orbit as AI Strains Infrastructure

4 wks / pymnts / PYMNTS

SpaceX Acquires xAI to Enable Solar-Powered, Space-Based AI

4 wks / pymnts / PYMNTS

SpaceX Is buying xAI—and turning the rocket company into an AI infrastructure giant

4 wks / fastcompany / Emily Price

Elon Musk confirms SpaceX has acquired xAI to accelerate his space-based data center plans

4 wks / siliconangle / Mike Wheatley

Elon Musk Officially Merges SpaceX and xAI to Build AI Data Centres in Space

4 wks / iphoneincanada / Austin Blake

Elon Musk’s SpaceX officially acquires Elon Musk’s xAI, with plan to build data centers in space

4 wks / techcrunch / Sean O'Kane

Elon Musk merges AI company xAI with rocket company SpaceX to build AI in space

4 wks / coindesk / Stephen Alpher

SpaceX acquires xAI, plans 1 million satellite constellation to power it

4 wks / arstechnica / Eric Berger

Other

OpenAI takes aim at Anthropic's coding mojo

4 wks / sources / Alex Heath

All Other Stories

The Financial Times just reported some interesting revenue numbers: "SpaceX told investors that its annual revenue had grown to $16bn[...] By contrast, last year xAI’s revenue was in the low hundreds of millions of dollars." www.ft.com/conten

4 wks / bsky / @luisequaritsch.bsky.social / luisequaritsch.bsky.social

Come da attese e previsioni, Musk incorpora xAI (che brucia cassa come un altoforno) in SpaceX e punta per giugno a una IPO record da 50 miliardi di dollari, battendo sul tempo OpenAI e Anthropic. Seguirà incorporazione di Tesla? www.ft.com/content/9d2

4 wks / bsky / @phastidio.net / phastidio.net

Elon Musk folded SpaceX into his loss-making AI startup xAI to build a $1.25 trillion company by leveraging scale and control to outcompete rivals and pursue a major IPO.

4 wks / bsky / @druce.ai / druce.ai

SpaceX Acquires xAI in $1.25 Trillion All-Stock Deal https://slashdot.org/story/26/02/03/0346252/spacex-acquires-xai-in-125-trillion-all-stock-deal?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

4 wks / bsky / @slashdot.org / slashdot.org

space based data centers are the new humanoid robot that can be your babysitter-surgeon-crime-preventer. www.cnbc.com/2026/02/02/m...

4 wks / bsky / @lorak.bsky.social / lorak.bsky.social

SpaceX and xAI Are Merging Into a Very Silly-Sounding Conglomerate. Take It Seriously https://gizmodo.com/spacex-and-xai-are-merging-into-a-very-silly-sounding-conglomerate-take-it-seriously-2000716461

4 wks / bsky / @gizmodo.com / gizmodo.com

SpaceX has bought xAI, Elon Musk told employees in a memo: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/b...

4 wks / bsky / @kateconger.com / kateconger.com

Elon Musk slår ihop rymdbolaget SpaceX med AI-satsningen xAI. Affären skapar världens högst värderade onoterade bolag, skriver New York Times (upplåst artikel).

4 wks / bsky / @esbjorn.bsky.social / esbjorn.bsky.social

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4 wks / bsky / @arstechnica.com / arstechnica.com

"“This marks not just the next chapter, but the next book in SpaceX and xAI’s mission: scaling to make a sentient sun to understand the Universe and extend the light of consciousness to the stars!” But my Lord, why are you risking everything on such

4 wks / bsky / @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social / exiledsocscientist.bsky.social

4 wks / bsky / @whoa-magic.lol / whoa-magic.lol

OMG “SpaceX has acquired xAI to form the most ambitious, vertically-integrated innovation engine on (and off) Earth, with AI, rockets, space-based internet, direct-to-mobile device communications and the world’s foremost real-time information and free spe

4 wks / bsky / @beanjammin.bsky.social / beanjammin.bsky.social

Doing this so you can IPO and be forced to report out exactly how much money X is losing every quarter is very funny www.theverge.com/tech/872619/...

4 wks / bsky / @reckless.bsky.social / reckless.bsky.social

Between this and his Tesla robot army, it does seem like Elon is intending to build Skynet.

4 wks / bsky / @goldy.horsesass.org / goldy.horsesass.org

Todas as empresas debaixo dum guarda-chuva que recebe bilhões em subsídios do governo pra exploração espacial

4 wks / bsky / @rlivre.cc / rlivre.cc

Space X acquires xAI www.theverge.com/tech/872619/...

4 wks / bsky / @timkellogg.me / timkellogg.me

SpaceX wants to launch a constellation of a million satellites to power AI needs

Jackson Chen / engadget - Elon Musk and his aerospace company have requested to build a network that's 100 times the number of satellites that are currently in orbit. On Friday, SpaceX filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to launch a million satell…

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Emergency satellite fixes amid orbital challenges

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FCC filings outline orbital data center plans

SpaceX formalizes plan to build 1 million satellite Orbital Data Center System — FCC filing sketches out plans, but over-packed orbits could be limiting factor

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SpaceX seeks federal approval to launch 1 million solar-powered satellite data centers | TechCrunch

4 wks / reddit / /u/Gloomy_Nebula_5138

SpaceX seeks federal approval to launch 1 million solar-powered satellite data centers

4 wks / techcrunch / Anthony Ha

SpaceX wants to put 1 million solar-powered data centers into orbit

4 wks / theverge / Terrence O’Brien

SpaceX Asks to Put One Million Data Centers in Orbit. The Math Says Otherwise.

4 wks / implicator / Harkaram Grewal

SpaceX wants to launch a constellation of a million satellites to power AI needs

4 wks / engadget / Jackson Chen

Musk's SpaceX applies to launch 1m satellites into orbit

4 wks / bbc

Musk’s AI merger and rival visions emerge

Musk's Star Wars vision: SpaceX to launch million AI supercomputers. What will they do? - India Today

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Musk’s SpaceX–xAI Merger Plan Puts Orbital Data Centers at the Center of the AI Infrastructure Race - FinTech Weekly

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China's Gigawatt-Class Orbital AI Data Centers and Space Tourism Challenge Musk's SpaceX Plans in - spacetime24.com

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SpaceX seeks FCC approval for 1 million AI data center satellites

4 wks / dataconomy / Emre Çıtak

SpaceX wants 1m extra satellites

4 wks / advanced-television / Colin Mann

SpaceX seeks FCC approval to launch 1 million data center satellites

4 wks / reddit / /u/app1310

SpaceX has filed a request with the Federal Communications Commission to launch a constellation of up to 1 million solar-powered satellites that it said

4 wks / bsky / @techcrunch.com / techcrunch.com

someone tell elon the ai is supoosed to do the paperclip thing, you’re not supposed to do it for them www.theverge.com/tech/871641/...

4 wks / bsky / @reckless.bsky.social / reckless.bsky.social

This will not end well. www.theverge.com/tech/871641/...

4 wks / bsky / @ianbetteridge.com / ianbetteridge.com

Muskrat and other rich men and their obsession with trashing space www.engadget.com/science/spac...

4 wks / bsky / @djnoneya.bsky.social / djnoneya.bsky.social

Jeff Bezos’s Rocket Company Blue Origin Pauses Space Tourism to Focus on the Moon

Kenneth Chang / nytimes - The New Shepard rocket from Blue Origin, which brought 92 people on trips to the edge of space, will cease flying for at least two years as the company prioritizes NASA contracts.

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Blue Origin Announces Two-Year Pause in Space Tourism - to Focus on the Moon

4 wks / slashdot / EditorDavid

Blue Origin is pausing its space tourist flights to work on lunar landers for NASA

4 wks / engadget / Mariella Moon

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Jeff Bezos’s Rocket Company Blue Origin Pauses Space Tourism to Focus on the Moon

5 wks / nytimes / Kenneth Chang

Here's why Blue Origin just ended its suborbital space tourism program

5 wks / arstechnica / Eric Berger

Blue Origin pauses space tourism flights to focus on the moon