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SpaceX Acquires xAI to Enable Solar-Powered, Space-Based AI
Musk announced the acquisition in a Monday (Feb. 2) update on the SpaceX website, noting that the deal brings together AI, rockets, space-based internet, direct-to-mobile device communications and the social media platform X. Currently, advances in…
The sun just unleashed its most powerful solar flare in years
The sun is experiencing a violent solar storm, releasing one of the strongest solar flares seen in the past 30 years Join Our Community of Science Lovers! I agree my information will be processed in accordance with the Scientific American and…
Sun Releases 4 Strong Solar Flares - NASA Science
The Sun emitted three strong solar flares on Feb. 1, peaking at 7:33 a.m. ET, 6:37 p.m. ET, and 7:36 p.m. ET. The Sun emitted a fourth strong solar flare on Feb. 2, peaking at 3:14 a.m. ET. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the Sun…
Elon Musk Merges SpaceX With His A.I. Start-Up xAI
SpaceX's rocket facility in Boca Chica, Texas.Credit...Callaghan O'Hare for The New York Times Listen to this article · 7:58 min Learn more SpaceX, the rocket and satellite maker led by Elon Musk, said on Monday it had acquired xAI, the…
Elon Musk's SpaceX buys xAI in stunning deal valued at $1.25 trillion ahead of looming IPO
Elon Musk's rocket company SpaceX has acquired xAI, the artificial company founded by Musk three years ago, in a massive, and unconventional, deal that combines the two privately held firms into a company with an astounding $1.25 trillion reported…
Musk's Reasons for Creating Musk Inc. Look Banal
Owning Tesla Inc. is essentially a bet on whatever Elon Musk says he will do next. One thing he might do next, according to Bloomberg News, is merge Tesla with his unlisted rockets shop, Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX. Or…
'Solar Is Everything': Tesla's Elon Musk Says Other Energy Sources Are a Waste of Time, Like 'a Caveman Throwing Some Twigs Into the Fire'
Bottom Line Up Front: In a wide-ranging 2026 interview with entrepreneur Peter Diamandis, Tesla (TSLA) and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk argued that solar power is not just another energy source, but the foundation of all future energy systems. Musk…
SpaceX Just Bought Elon Musk's CSAM Company
On Monday, Elon Musk's rocket company SpaceX bought his AI firm xAI, whose most notable contribution to humankind has been enabling the mass digital undressing of women and children with its chatbot Grok. The acquisition, according to the New York…
The Future Looks Dim for Big Oil in the Motor Vehicle Industry
Just as American consumers closed out the horse-and-buggy era at the start of the 1900s with the arrival of gas-run vehicles, carriage makers saw the handwriting on the wall and gradually moved capital, labor, and creative efforts elsewhere. Big…
China's mysterious battery king who built a $21b fortune
Cao Renxian is one of China's richest men in an industry the world can't live without, yet almost no one outside the business knows his name. That obscurity may not last much longer. The 57-year-old founder of Sungrow Power Supply has built a…
Elon Musk merges SpaceX with artificial intelligence company xAI
Elon Musk's aerospace firm SpaceX has acquired his artificial intelligence business xAI, in a merger that consolidates part of Musk's empire as SpaceX prepares to go public later this year, at a valuation likely to exceed $1tn. The two companies…
Women's Bank will soon be ready for business -Mahama - The Ghanaian Chronicle
President John Dramani Mahama has announced that plans are far advanced for the establishment of a Women's Bank. He explained that Vice President Professor Jane Naana Opoku‑Agyemang, who has been leading the initiative, had informed him that…
Michael Jantzen Just Turned Solar into a 16-Arm Moving Sculpture
Most renewable energy systems hide in plain sight. Rooftop solar panels blend into shingles, batteries sit in containers behind fences, and wind turbines spin in distant fields. They quietly do their jobs without helping anyone understand what…
Musk joins his rocket and AI businesses into a single company before an expected IPO this year
FILE – Elon Musk attends a memorial for conservative activist Charlie Kirk, Sunday, Sept. 21, 2025, at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Ariz. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File) By BERNARD CONDON and MATT O'BRIEN NEW YORK (AP) —…
SpaceX Acquires Musk's xAI to Fuel Orbital Data Center Plans
SpaceX is merging with Elon Musk's xAI ahead of a planned initial public offering and the billionaire's effort to create orbiting data centers. The IPO is expected to generate tens of billions of dollars, giving xAI a new source of funds. Musk also…
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