SpaceX deal for xAI puts Elon Musk to test
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Musk's memo announcing SpaceX and xAI's merger is full of space jargon. Here's your cheat sheet to bring the wonky language back down to Earth.
Elon Musk just became the first person ever worth $800 billion or more after his rocket maker SpaceX acquired his artificial intelligence and social media company xAI. Forbes estimates that the deal, which values the combined company at $1.25 trillion, boosted Musk’s fortune by $84 billion, to a record $852 billion.
The revelations that Musk sought an invite to Epstein’s island add risk to his plans to merge SpaceX with xAI, and then take the combined company public, experts say.
SpaceX has successfully cut off the Russian military from having “unauthorized” access to the Starlink satellite systems that had been used to attack Ukraine, Elon Musk said Sunday. Musk, the SpaceX CEO,