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How Elon Musk is rewriting the rules on founder power

Watch as Equity dives into this new era of the "everything" business, whether we'll see others like Sam Altman follow suit, and more of the week's headlines.

Elon Musk is merging SpaceX and xAI to build data centers in space

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SpaceX acquires xAI, plans to launch a massive satellite constellation to power it

“This marks not just the next chapter, but the next book in SpaceX and xAI’s mission.”

Space-Based AI: Musk's Plan for AI Data Centres on the Moon

Elon Musk's companies SpaceX and xAI are merging to create the most valuable private company in the world, thought to be worth more than US$1tn

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

The merger creates the world's most valuable private company, and paves the way for Musk to try and prove out the usefulness of space-based data centers.

How far will Elon Musk take the ‘everything’ business as SpaceX and xAI merge?

Elon Musk is building something bigger than a single company. Equity breaks down the SpaceX and xAI merger, the rise of the personal conglomerate, Waymo’s $16B raise, AI chip wars, and more.

Elon Musk is getting serious about orbital data centers

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

Elon Musk merges SpaceX with xAI (and X)

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xAI joins SpaceX

SpaceX announced today that it has acquired xAI.

With co-founders leaving and an IPO looming, Elon Musk turns talk to the moon

According to The New York Times, which reports that it heard the meeting, Musk told employees that xAI needs a lunar manufacturing facility, a factory on the moon that will build AI satellites and fling them into space via a giant catapult.

Elon Musk's SpaceX, Tesla, and xAI in talks to merge, according to reports

This merger would bring the Grok chatbot, Starlink satellites, and SpaceX rockets together under one corporation.

SpaceX acquires xAI, plans to launch a massive satellite constellation to power it

“This marks not just the next chapter, but the next book in SpaceX and xAI’s mission.”

Is the SpaceX / xAI / X public offering just going to be a bailout funded by index funds?

Maybe combining Musk’s companies is really about space AI data centers. But reports from Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal indicate that SpaceX’s IPO pursuit includes a push to have major index providers find a way around the usual waiting periods before they’ll add newly listed companies.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX and xAI might merge into one company

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This Week's Top Five Stories in AI

AI Magazine takes a look at some of the top stories from the past few days, featuring the likes of Magnum, Anthropic, IBM, xAI, Dassault and NVIDIA

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

"I really want to see a mass driver on the moon that is shooting AI satellites into deep space."

xAI lays out interplanetary ambitions in public all-hands

On Wednesday, xAI took the rare step of publishing its full 45-minute all-hands presentation to the X platform, making it widely available.

Why the economics of orbital AI are so brutal

A 1 Gw orbital data center would cost roughly $42.4B—almost three times its ground-bound equivalent.