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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman famously don’t agree on much.The latest point of contention: data centers in space. Musk has made it a priority. Altman thinks it’s a fantasy, at least for now.”I honestly think the idea with the current landscape of putting data centers in…
At xAI’s Palo Alto headquarters, engineers cheered.It was February 2, and they’d just received a memo from Elon Musk, informing them the AI startup would be acquired by his rocket company, SpaceX. In a Slack channel for the team that trains the company’s chatbot Grok, memes flowed, and a few…
XAI cofounder Jimmy Ba said he left Elon Musk’s startup on Tuesday.”It’s time to recalibrate my gradient on the big picture. 2026 is gonna be insane and likely the busiest (and most consequential) year for the future of our species,” Ba wrote on X.Ba reported directly to Musk. He ran…
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To the world’s richest man, all things eventually end in outer space.As countries pour billions into new Earth-bound data centers in a global race for AI dominance, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk thinks the best way to conserve energy, money, and space is to put data centers in, well, space.”In the…
It’s official: Elon Musk is combining SpaceX and xAI as he overhauls his sprawling business empire.Musk told workers in a Monday memo that SpaceX has acquired xAI, his AI company, sources familiar with the matter confirmed to Business Insider.The CEO wrote that the deal would create “the most ambitious, vertically-integrated…
Elon Musk recently said that saving for retirement could become “irrelevant” in the next decade, as new technologies promise to create such an abundance of resources that nobody will need a nest egg.Dario Amodei warned this week that achieving a plentiful future won’t be easy. The CEO of Anthropic, the…
Elon Musk once called Davos “boring af.” After his first appearance, some attendees might agree with him.The billionaire took to the stage at the World Economic Forum in a surprise appearance on Thursday for an interview that touched on many points of his sprawling business empire — but offered few…
Elon Musk wants to see your results, not your résumé.The Tesla CEO this week requested that people who want to work on the company’s Dojo3 AI chip email three bullet points describing the “toughest technical problems you’ve solved.”Musk’s just-the-facts approach, outlined in a post on X, reflects a focus on…
Jeff Bezos has unveiled his plans for a massive satellite network, mounting a direct challenge to Elon Musk’s grip on internet infrastructure in orbit.The project, called TeraWave, would deploy 5,408 satellites into orbit to serve data centers, governments, and businesses worldwide, Bezos’s space venture, Blue Origin, said in a statement…
