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SpaceX to acquire Cursor for $60B in stock, days after record IPO
Business

SpaceX to acquire Cursor for $60B in stock, days after record IPO

The all-stock deal closes a path Musk laid out in April, when SpaceX agreed to buy Cursor or pay a $10B break-up fee.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
SpaceX opens at $150 as Anthropic and OpenAI line up for IPO summer
Business

SpaceX opens at $150 as Anthropic and OpenAI line up for IPO summer

SpaceX popped 11% on debut while Anthropic and OpenAI prepare to follow, ending the FAANG era and ushering in what insiders are calling MANGOS.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Grok still hosting sexualized deepfakes of celebrities and a US lawmaker
Security

Grok still hosting sexualized deepfakes of celebrities and a US lawmaker

A WIRED review found dozens of nonconsensual explicit images on Grok.com days before SpaceX's IPO, despite xAI's January safeguard pledges.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Ex-xAI engineer Devin Kim sues over alleged firing for Grok safety complaints
Security

Ex-xAI engineer Devin Kim sues over alleged firing for Grok safety complaints

Suit filed in California state court days before SpaceX's IPO targets xAI co-founder Jimmy Ba, not Musk, over Grok safety pushback.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Spin founder raises $5M to build space data centers at Orbital
Business

Spin founder raises $5M to build space data centers at Orbital

Euwyn Poon's new company plans 10,000 satellites delivering a gigawatt of inference compute — once Starship is flying commercially.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
S&P 500 refuses to bend rules for SpaceX, blocking OpenAI and Anthropic too
Business

S&P 500 refuses to bend rules for SpaceX, blocking OpenAI and Anthropic too

S&P Dow Jones Indices kept its profitability and seasoning rules intact, denying $14B in passive buying to SpaceX and shutting the door on AI IPOs.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Business

Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month to rent xAI compute capacity

The 32-month deal covers 110,000 Nvidia GPUs and lands one week before SpaceX's $1.75 trillion IPO on the Nasdaq.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Business

Anthropic files to go public at $965B, beating OpenAI to the IPO window

Anthropic, SpaceX-owned xAI, and OpenAI are all racing to list — and San Francisco realtors are now pricing homes in pre-IPO stock.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
xAI moves to unmask Grok deepfake plaintiffs in California federal court
Security

xAI moves to unmask Grok deepfake plaintiffs in California federal court

Four pseudonymous claimants say revealing their names would invite doxing; xAI argues the case lacks the privacy interests that justify anonymity.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Impulse Space raises $500M Series D, bets on human engineers over AI
Business

Impulse Space raises $500M Series D, bets on human engineers over AI

Tom Mueller's in-space mobility startup will hire up to 200 engineers, citing thin training data for hardware design.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Grok barely appears in federal AI records as agencies favor OpenAI and Anthropic
Models

Grok barely appears in federal AI records as agencies favor OpenAI and Anthropic

Reuters reviewed 400+ government AI deployments and found xAI's chatbot in just three entries.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
SpaceX pitches $26.5T AI market as Grok lags OpenAI and Anthropic
Business

SpaceX pitches $26.5T AI market as Grok lags OpenAI and Anthropic

The company's IPO filing projects orbital data centers while Grok holds 0.174% paid consumer share.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
SpaceX commits $2.8B to gas turbines for xAI data centers as IPO filing reveals energy bet
Business

SpaceX commits $2.8B to gas turbines for xAI data centers as IPO filing reveals energy bet

The investment covers turbines through 2029 as xAI faces lawsuits over unpermitted generators at Colossus 2.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
xAI burned $6.4B in 2025 as SpaceX IPO filing reveals widening losses
Business

xAI burned $6.4B in 2025 as SpaceX IPO filing reveals widening losses

Musk's AI unit lost twice its revenue last year; capex hit a $30.8B annualized run rate in Q1 2026.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Anthropic will pay xAI $1.25B per month for compute through May 2029
Business

Anthropic will pay xAI $1.25B per month for compute through May 2029

The deal secures 300 megawatts from xAI's Colossus 1 data center in Memphis, potentially $40B in total revenue.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
xAI commits $2.8B to turbine purchases as NAACP lawsuit challenges Memphis generators
News

xAI commits $2.8B to turbine purchases as NAACP lawsuit challenges Memphis generators

SpaceX's IPO filing reveals xAI will buy $2B in mobile gas turbines—the same kind it's being sued over in Tennessee.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Business

OpenAI targets September IPO with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley

Sam Altman aims for a fall public offering just as SpaceX prepares its own blockbuster debut.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Former OpenAI staffers warn xAI safety record could complicate SpaceX IPO
Security

Former OpenAI staffers warn xAI safety record could complicate SpaceX IPO

A new watchdog group says xAI's safety incidents are disproportionate to its market share and should trigger investor disclosures.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Google and SpaceX discuss orbital data centers ahead of $1.75T IPO
Business

Google and SpaceX discuss orbital data centers ahead of $1.75T IPO

The talks tie Google's Project Suncatcher to SpaceX's launch capacity, with prototype satellites slated for 2027.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Cowboy Space raises $275M to build its own rockets for orbital AI data centers
Business

Cowboy Space raises $275M to build its own rockets for orbital AI data centers

Robinhood co-founder Baiju Bhatt's startup is going vertical — rockets and satellites — to beat a launch-capacity bottleneck by 2028.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
SpaceX Commits $55bn to Texas AI Chip Fab, With Spend Potentially Reaching $119bn
Business

SpaceX Commits $55bn to Texas AI Chip Fab, With Spend Potentially Reaching $119bn

A Grimes County filing reveals SpaceX's TerraFab project, tied to Elon Musk's plan for 200 gigawatts of Earth compute and one terawatt in space.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
SpaceX Commits Up to $119 Billion for Texas AI Chip Plant
Business

SpaceX Commits Up to $119 Billion for Texas AI Chip Plant

Elon Musk's rocket company files for tax breaks on TerraFab, a Grimes County compute facility, while leasing its first Memphis data center to Anthropic.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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Business

Anthropic taps SpaceX's 220,000-GPU Colossus to lift Claude Code limits

Deal gives Anthropic 300 megawatts of new capacity from SpaceX's Memphis data center, enough to double Claude Code windows for Pro and Max users.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
SpaceX weighs $119B 'Terafab' chip plant in Texas to feed xAI and Tesla
Business

SpaceX weighs $119B 'Terafab' chip plant in Texas to feed xAI and Tesla

A Grimes County filing pegs initial spend at $55B, with Intel and Tesla joining a fab targeting 1 terawatt of chip output per year.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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