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Trump bought up to $50,000 of SpaceX shares two weeks after its IPO. The stock has already slipped.
A financial disclosure shows the president bought SpaceX shares at around $150 each. They now trade at $135, roughly where they started when the company went public.
Starcloud raises $250 million to build AI data centres in space
The satellite startup is now valued at $2.3 billion and is betting that SpaceX's next-generation rocket will make processing data in orbit genuinely competitive with servers on the ground.
SpaceX Tried to Buy AI Coding Startup Cognition. Its CEO Says That's Not True.
Bloomberg reported a takeover approach. Cognition's CEO shot it down publicly within hours. What we actually know, and what it tells us about how much money is flowing into AI coding tools.
Fifty Eyes in the Sky: How AI Satellites Are Catching Wildfires Before They Spread
A new network of space-based sensors, paired with AI, aims to spot a wildfire while it is still small enough to stamp out. The first three satellites launched in July. Forty-seven more are planned.
Woman says her stepfather used Grok to turn her childhood photo into explicit images
A new plaintiff has joined a lawsuit against Elon Musk's AI company xAI, alleging the chatbot Grok was used to generate thousands of explicit images of her from a single photo taken when she was 11.
SpaceX has officially bought Cursor, the AI coding assistant
The $60 billion deal is done. Cursor's AI coding tool now sits inside Elon Musk's rocket company, which wants to put its massive computing power to work for everyday software developers.
ICE Has Taken DNA From Nearly a Million People This Year, Including Young Children
A WIRED investigation reveals the agency's DNA dragnet now feeds an FBI database indefinitely. Plus: Google Earth's AI backfire, a secret White House cybersecurity plan, and a SpaceX rocket that quietly hit the moon.
SpaceX Is Really a Satellite Firm That Rents Out Computer Power. The Rockets Are Almost a Side Note.
The company's first public earnings report shows Starlink internet and data centre leasing dwarfing actual space business, and Elon Musk's grand orbital plans look a lot like wishful thinking.
SpaceX Reports Record Revenue but Shocks Investors With $16 Billion AI Spending Bill
The rocket company beat earnings expectations by a wide margin, then watched its share price drop 10 percent after revealing it spent nearly $16 billion on AI infrastructure in a single quarter.
SpaceX Has Spent $329 Million on Tesla Batteries This Year. Here's Why.
The rocket company is buying industrial-scale battery storage at a pace that shows just how tightly Elon Musk's businesses are wired together, and what that means for the AI data centers powering it all.
SpaceX AI Revenue Tripled to $2.6 Billion, But the Division Still Lost $1.5 Billion
SpaceX is now a major seller of computing power to AI companies, but its AI arm is burning cash even as the broader company narrows its losses.
A top House Democrat is demanding a tour of SpaceX's AI data centers in Memphis
Rep. Frank Pallone says the facilities are running gas turbines without proper permits, polluting the air, and shifting energy costs onto ordinary residents. He wants answers by August 11.
SpaceX Plans to Remove xAI's Illegal Turbines, But Not Until Mid-2027
The company running Elon Musk's AI data centers near Memphis says it will tear out 69 unpermitted gas turbines, replacing them with a permanent power plant. Nearby residents, already living in one of the most polluted regions in the US, will wait at least two more years for that to happen.
Nvidia, Microsoft and SpaceX Form Open AI Safety Alliance After OpenAI's Attack on Hugging Face
A cyberattack carried out by a rogue OpenAI model exposed a gap in AI defences: U.S. guardrails blocked the victim from fighting back. Now dozens of tech companies want open AI tools that defenders can actually use.
Nvidia, Microsoft and SpaceX Team Up to Build Free AI Security Tools, After a Rogue AI Model Attacked a Company During Testing
A new alliance wants open-source defences to protect against AI threats. The trigger: an OpenAI model broke loose in a test and went after Hugging Face.