Elon Musk says SpaceX will rename its AI unit from SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI to match Trump's preferred term, 'super intelligence'. The pledge came without a date or any disclosed contract or revenue showing the merged SpaceX-xAI business moving closer to Washington.
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Tesla is moving its Austin robotaxi cutoff from 10 p.m. to 11 p.m., with Elon Musk naming pets that are hard to see at night as the main problem to solve. Each added hour after dark now overlaps an open federal review of how well Tesla's cameras spot hazards in poor visibility.
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Tesla delivered 486,532 vehicles in the third quarter, about 24,500 more than analysts expected, almost all of them Model 3s and Model Ys. With US buyers pulling back, that volume now rests on Europe and China while Tesla's pitch moves to robotaxis and trucks.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave the Project Meridian study 120 days to report on what US forces need to fight future wars. Defense-tech vendors now have a report date to plan around, co-written by two executives whose companies already sell drones and satellites to the government.
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Tesla nearly quadrupled its authorized Cybercab fleet in Texas to 169 in a month, against Waymo's 1,154 autonomous vehicles in the state. With the shares down 18% this year, the stock depends on that pace holding for many more months.
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xAI won an 8th Circuit order pausing Minnesota's HF 1606, a nudification law with penalties of up to $500,000 per occurrence, while its First Amendment suit proceeds. The stay defers the state's claim on AI image generators until the court rules on the merits.
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Google's orbital compute paper needs Starship to lift 370,000 tons to reach $200-a-kilogram launches, about 180 flights a year for a decade. Its first TPU in orbit will run in 15-minute bursts while Google tests whether a satellite can supply a kilowatt of steady power and keep the chip cool.
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Anthropic pays SpaceX $1.25 billion a month for compute through May 2029 on terms either side can end with 90 days' notice. That notice period covers about $3.75 billion of the roughly $45 billion the contract is worth if it runs to term.
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Donald Trump spent hours questioning Musk's Grok at a December 2025 Oval Office meeting, a month before the Maduro raid, Time reports. The only answer made public is a forecast about Venezuelan street reaction that turned out right, a thin record for the high opinion of Grok he reportedly took away.
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Five tech executives, including OpenAI's Greg Brockman, have said artificial general intelligence is already here. One of the term's earliest users calls it marketing, and the skill he says AI still lacks, learning a new job quickly, is the one a staffing plan rests on.
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United is matching the elite status of Delta and American fliers and pitching Starlink Wi-Fi, on about a third of its fleet, as the reason to switch. That puts in-flight connectivity at the center of the fight for the carriers' most valuable fliers, though the evidence that it moves them is so far limited to social-media posts.
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Google's Project Suncatcher is launching four processors that can run Gemini for only 15 minutes before they must shut down to cool. Heat, launch mass and downlink stand between that payload and the orbital data centers SpaceX pitched when it went public in June.
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SpaceXAI is weighing a four-tier X and Grok subscription, from free to a $100-a-month Ultra plan, according to a company document Bloomberg viewed. The draft prices X by how much Grok you use and keeps the checkmark at today's cost.
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Six AI companies signed a two-page White House accord on 29 September that pledges audits and board review but sets no penalty for breaking it. A close reading of the text finds it is the nearest thing the US has to national AI safety policy, two months after Europe switched its rules on.
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Google is flying four TPUs, roughly one server's worth of compute on a kilowatt of solar power, in Project Suncatcher's first orbital test. The satellite can show whether the chips survive heat and radiation in orbit, a smaller question than whether computing there is cheaper.
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Sell ratings on Tesla have fallen to 13.1% of 61 analyst calls, the smallest bearish share since April 2023, according to Bloomberg data. The calls leaving sell are landing in hold as the stock lags, so analysts are backing off the bear case with no sign yet that they are paying for Musk's robotaxis.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth named Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich to lead a 120-day study of where the US military falls short. Two of the three run companies that hold Pentagon contracts, so the military's suppliers will help draft the first list of what it lacks.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced AUTOWARCOM, a four-star command for autonomous and robotic warfare with "service-like authorities" he did not define. Defense suppliers now have a command to plan around before anyone has said whether it will hold money or sign contracts.
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SpaceX flew Starship to orbit for the first time on September 28, deploying 26 Starlink V3 satellites despite one of the upper stage's six engines going out at liftoff. The flight moves the vehicle closer to the operational heavy-lift launcher NASA and SpaceX are counting on.
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Trump and six tech bosses signed a "morally binding" AI accord at Tuesday's White House summit that makes each company responsible for its own models' safety. Until its auditors and oversight board are named, buyers have the vendor's word and their own testing.
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Product · August 26, 2026 · 2 publishers
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Invest · August 26, 2026 · 1 publisher
- Jane Doe 1 sues xAI alleging Grok's nudify feature was trained on real CSAM
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Build · September 4, 2026 · 2 publishers
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Build · September 25, 2026 · 1 publisher
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Invest · September 15, 2026 · 13 publishers
- Anthropic and OpenAI ship cheaper frontier models in the week their CEOs urge an AI slowdown
Invest · September 25, 2026 · 1 publisher
- Amodei, Altman, Musk and Hassabis all say the latest LLMs are not safe
Product · September 15, 2026 · 1 publisher