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Elon Musk's SpaceX acquiring AI startup xAI ahead of potential IPO

cnbc - Musk is combining rocket maker SpaceX with his AI startup, the largest tie-up in his expansive business portfolio.


Crypto & Recruiting

Elon Musk’s xAI opens crypto expert role amid $1.25 trillion SpaceX merger

4 wks / theblock / Brian Danga

Elon Musk's xAI is hiring crypto specialists to train its AI models

4 wks / coindesk / Shaurya Malwa


Mega IPO & Valuation

Musk's xAI, SpaceX combo is the biggest merger of all time, valued at $1.25 trillion

4 wks / cnbc

Musk Negotiates With Musk. Software Bleeds Out.

4 wks / implicator / Marcus Schuler

How Musk used SpaceX to rescue xAI and build a $1.25tn colossus

4 wks / ft

Musk merges xAI and SpaceX to form $1.2T company

4 wks / semafor / Tom Chivers

Elon Musk merges money-losing xAI into SpaceX before mega IPO

4 wks / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

Elon Musk’s SpaceX lands $1.25trn valuation after xAI acquisition

4 wks / siliconrepublic / Suhasini Srinivasaragavan

Musk Merged SpaceX With xAI. His Investors Paid the Bill.

4 wks / implicator / Marcus Schuler

Musk's SpaceX–xAI mega deal sharpens focus on bitcoin accounting ahead of IPO

4 wks / coindesk / Shaurya Malwa

SpaceX Acquires xAI in $1.25 Trillion All-Stock Deal

4 wks / slashdot / msmash

SpaceX acquires xAI in $1.25 trillion deal, creating world's most valuable private company

4 wks / implicator / Harkaram Grewal

SpaceX + xAI = $1 Trillion Empire

4 wks / theresanaiforthat / There's An AI For That

Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceX—Creating the World’s Most Valuable Private Company

4 wks / wired / Maxwell Zeff

SpaceX acquiring AI startup xAI ahead of potential IPO

4 wks / reddit / /u/Luka77GOATic

Elon Musk's SpaceX acquiring AI startup xAI ahead of potential IPO

4 wks / cnbc

Musk wants to merge SpaceX with xAI, then take it public

4 wks / pivot-to-ai / David Gerard

Elon Musk’s SpaceX to Combine With xAI Ahead of Mega IPO

4 wks / reddit / /u/MysteriousEdge5643

SpaceX to merge with xAI, seek an IPO valuation of $1.25 trillion, Bloomberg reports

4 wks / sherwood / Nate Becker

SpaceX Reportedly in Talks to Merge with xAI to Form $1T Tech Giant

4 wks / iphoneincanada / Austin Blake


Merger Announcements

The xAI-SpaceX merger, Palantir earnings, China's frowning horses and more in Morning Squawk

4 wks / cnbc

The Morning After: Elon Musk’s SpaceX is buying his AI company, xAI

4 wks / engadget / Mat Smith

Elon Musk’s SpaceX acquires Elon Musks xAI, including social media platform X

4 wks / mashable

xAI joins SpaceX in mega-merger

4 wks / therundown / Zach Mink

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Acquires AI Start-Up xAI

4 wks / startuprise / Kailee Rainse

Musk merges SpaceX with xAI

4 wks / advanced-television / Editor

SpaceX and xAI Are Merging Into a Very Silly-Sounding Conglomerate. Take It Seriously

4 wks / gizmodo / Mike Pearl

Elon Musk merges xAI into SpaceX to spread universal consciousness via a sentient sun

4 wks / theregister / Tobias Mann

SpaceX to take over Elon Musk's AI firm

4 wks / bbc

Elon Musk Merges SpaceX With His A.I. Start-Up xAI

4 wks / nytimes / Ryan Mac, Kate Conger, Maureen Farrell and Rob Copeland

SpaceX buys xAI to unite crucial parts of Musk’s empire

4 wks / ft

Elon Musk says he is merging SpaceX with artificial-intelligence company xAI

4 wks / go

Elon Musk Says SpaceX Has Acquired xAI

4 wks / wsj / Micah Maidenberg

Elon Musk's SpaceX has acquired his AI company, xAI

4 wks / engadget / Karissa Bell

Elon Musk Merges SpaceX With His A.I. Start-Up xAI

4 wks / nytimes / Ryan Mac, Kate Conger, Maureen Farrell and Rob Copeland

Elon Musk's SpaceX to merge with xAI

4 wks / axios / Axios

Correction, what I meant to say was: "And it now seems inevitable that xAI merges with one of them IN FOUR DAYS to be able to continue on in this race..." https://spyglass.org/the-anyone-but-google-ai-alliance/

4 wks / bsky / @mgsiegler.com

Elon Musk merges SpaceX with xAI (and X)

4 wks / theverge / Jay Peters

xAI joins SpaceX

4 wks / ycombinator

Reading between the lines on the latest SpaceX merger report and Musk’s cryptic tweet

4 wks / sherwood / Nate Becker


Orbital AI Infrastructure

SpaceX Acquires xAI to Build Orbital Data Center Constellation

4 wks / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

SpaceX acquires xAI in a bid to make orbiting data centers a reality — Musk plans to launch a million tons of satellites annually, targets 1TW/year of space-based compute capacity

4 wks / tomshardware

SpaceX acquires xAI at $1.25T for space data centers

4 wks / dataconomy / Emre Çıtak

Elon Musk merges xAI into SpaceX with plans for space-based AI infrastructure

4 wks / techspot

SpaceX Buys xAI To Move AI Into Space: What We Still Don’t Know

4 wks / medianama / Aakriti Bansal

Musk's xAI needs SpaceX deal for the money. Data centers in space are still a dream

4 wks / cnbc

SpaceX Acquires xAI to Pursue AI Data Centers in Space

4 wks / reddit / /u/i-drake

Musk Folds xAI Into SpaceX, Cites Limits on Earth-Based AI Infrastructure

4 wks / decrypt / Jason Nelson

SpaceX Aims for Data Centers in Orbit as AI Strains Infrastructure

4 wks / pymnts / PYMNTS

SpaceX Acquires xAI to Enable Solar-Powered, Space-Based AI

4 wks / pymnts / PYMNTS

SpaceX Is buying xAI—and turning the rocket company into an AI infrastructure giant

4 wks / fastcompany / Emily Price

Elon Musk confirms SpaceX has acquired xAI to accelerate his space-based data center plans

4 wks / siliconangle / Mike Wheatley

Elon Musk Officially Merges SpaceX and xAI to Build AI Data Centres in Space

4 wks / iphoneincanada / Austin Blake

Elon Musk’s SpaceX officially acquires Elon Musk’s xAI, with plan to build data centers in space

4 wks / techcrunch / Sean O'Kane

Elon Musk merges AI company xAI with rocket company SpaceX to build AI in space

4 wks / coindesk / Stephen Alpher

SpaceX acquires xAI, plans 1 million satellite constellation to power it

4 wks / arstechnica / Eric Berger


Other

OpenAI takes aim at Anthropic's coding mojo

4 wks / sources / Alex Heath


All Other Stories

The Financial Times just reported some interesting revenue numbers: "SpaceX told investors that its annual revenue had grown to $16bn[...] By contrast, last year xAI’s revenue was in the low hundreds of millions of dollars." www.ft.com/conten

4 wks / bsky / @luisequaritsch.bsky.social / luisequaritsch.bsky.social

Come da attese e previsioni, Musk incorpora xAI (che brucia cassa come un altoforno) in SpaceX e punta per giugno a una IPO record da 50 miliardi di dollari, battendo sul tempo OpenAI e Anthropic. Seguirà incorporazione di Tesla? www.ft.com/content/9d2

4 wks / bsky / @phastidio.net / phastidio.net

Elon Musk folded SpaceX into his loss-making AI startup xAI to build a $1.25 trillion company by leveraging scale and control to outcompete rivals and pursue a major IPO.

4 wks / bsky / @druce.ai / druce.ai

SpaceX Acquires xAI in $1.25 Trillion All-Stock Deal https://slashdot.org/story/26/02/03/0346252/spacex-acquires-xai-in-125-trillion-all-stock-deal?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

4 wks / bsky / @slashdot.org / slashdot.org

space based data centers are the new humanoid robot that can be your babysitter-surgeon-crime-preventer. www.cnbc.com/2026/02/02/m...

4 wks / bsky / @lorak.bsky.social / lorak.bsky.social

SpaceX and xAI Are Merging Into a Very Silly-Sounding Conglomerate. Take It Seriously https://gizmodo.com/spacex-and-xai-are-merging-into-a-very-silly-sounding-conglomerate-take-it-seriously-2000716461

4 wks / bsky / @gizmodo.com / gizmodo.com

SpaceX has bought xAI, Elon Musk told employees in a memo: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/b...

4 wks / bsky / @kateconger.com / kateconger.com

Elon Musk slår ihop rymdbolaget SpaceX med AI-satsningen xAI. Affären skapar världens högst värderade onoterade bolag, skriver New York Times (upplåst artikel).

4 wks / bsky / @esbjorn.bsky.social / esbjorn.bsky.social

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4 wks / bsky / @arstechnica.com / arstechnica.com

"“This marks not just the next chapter, but the next book in SpaceX and xAI’s mission: scaling to make a sentient sun to understand the Universe and extend the light of consciousness to the stars!” But my Lord, why are you risking everything on such

4 wks / bsky / @exiledsocscientist.bsky.social / exiledsocscientist.bsky.social

"“This marks not just the next chapter, but the next book in SpaceX and xAI’s mission: scaling to make a sentient sun to understand the Universe and extend the light of consciousness to the stars!”"

4 wks / bsky / @whoa-magic.lol / whoa-magic.lol

OMG “SpaceX has acquired xAI to form the most ambitious, vertically-integrated innovation engine on (and off) Earth, with AI, rockets, space-based internet, direct-to-mobile device communications and the world’s foremost real-time information and free spe

4 wks / bsky / @beanjammin.bsky.social / beanjammin.bsky.social

Doing this so you can IPO and be forced to report out exactly how much money X is losing every quarter is very funny www.theverge.com/tech/872619/...

4 wks / bsky / @reckless.bsky.social / reckless.bsky.social

Between this and his Tesla robot army, it does seem like Elon is intending to build Skynet.

4 wks / bsky / @goldy.horsesass.org / goldy.horsesass.org

Todas as empresas debaixo dum guarda-chuva que recebe bilhões em subsídios do governo pra exploração espacial

4 wks / bsky / @rlivre.cc / rlivre.cc

Space X acquires xAI www.theverge.com/tech/872619/...

4 wks / bsky / @timkellogg.me / timkellogg.me

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Indonesia conditionally lifts ban on xAI’s Grok chatbot

Kerem Gülen / dataconomy - Indonesia’s Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs has conditionally lifted its ban on xAI’s chatbot Grok after X sent a letter outlining concrete steps for service improvements and the prevention of misuse. The decision follows bans imposed by Sou…

#ai #techpolicy #genai #government #asia #censorship #contentmoderation #xai #elonmusk #grokai

Grok ban: Organizations ask U.S. government to halt chatbot use, Indonesia lifts block

4 wks / mashable

Elon Musk’s Grok is still undressing men

4 wks / theverge / Robert Hart

Indonesia conditionally lifts ban on xAI’s Grok chatbot

4 wks / dataconomy / Kerem Gülen

Indonesia lets Elon Musk's Grok back online under tight supervision

4 wks / go

Back to Top / Monday, February 2, 2026, 3:20 am / permalink 18655 / 4 stories in 4 wks


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