Rocket firm merges with AI

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🎓 Aric Rindfleisch	35%	38	21.6%

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by David Rothschild

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David Rothschild

@davmicrot.bsky.social

SpaceX (which “bought” X and XAI yesterday) owns & operates the most prolific child-porn deepfake production & distribution platform in the world, very reasonable for countries to worry about that.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 18h

France getting serious with Musk.

Paris prosecutors raid France offices of Elon Musk’s X – Europe live

The raid is linked to a year-long investigation into alleged abuse of algorithms and fraudulent data extraction by X

www.theguardian.com

February 3, 2026 at 11:59 PM

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makena kelly

@makenakelly.bsky.social

NEW: Elon Musk's X is awarding Nick Shirley—the creator who boosted the fraud allegations that led to ICE's Minneapolis surge—$100,000 for his "coverage.
x.com/XCreators/st...

February 3, 2026 at 11:43 PM

by Paul Davies

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Scholar power: 23.7%

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Paul J Davies

@pauljdavies.bsky.social

So the rocket company now owns Twitter too? I guess one way to get your social network nightmare to meet its debt payments is wrap into a vastly larger fantasy.

SpaceX buys xAI in $1.25tn deal to unite crucial parts of Elon Musk’s empire

www.ft.com/content/8ee7...

SpaceX buys xAI in $1.25tn deal to unite crucial parts of Elon Musk’s empire

Rocket company boosts valuation to $1tn and pays $250bn to acquire AI start-up as Musk envisions data centres in space

www.ft.com

February 3, 2026 at 7:45 AM

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Rodney Brooks

@rodneyabrooks.bsky.social

Merging xAI with SpaceX is not good for US capability in space. Argument is SpaceX will launch 1TW of electricity producing solar + data centers (modulo unsolved thermal physics) per year, on a so far 11 flight rocket that has not gotten to orbit. US needs Falcon 9 to be stable workhorse. Danger.

February 3, 2026 at 6:00 AM

by Tim Stephens

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Tim Stephens

@proftimstephens.bsky.social

“Prosecutors have raided the French headquarters of Elon Musk’s social media platform X and summoned the tech billionaire and the company’s former chief executive for questioning as part of an investigation into alleged cybercrime.”

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

French headquarters of Elon Musk’s X raided by Paris cybercrime unit

Prosecutors’ announcement comes amid a hardening of European attitudes to social media firms

www.theguardian.com

February 3, 2026 at 10:43 PM

by Paul Davies

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Paul J Davies

@pauljdavies.bsky.social

One* of the head scratchers here is Meta makes >13 times the revenue of SpaceX and yet it worth just 40% more? I’ll astounded if this thing IPOs anywhere near that anytime soon.

*there are a lot of confusing things in this whole … thing.

Paul J Davies @pauljdavies.bsky.social · 9h

SpaceX is the anti-Google! Lol at @matt-levine.bsky.social

www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...

If you had told me in 2016 "my company will build rockets and send them to Mars
in order to generate free cash flow to subsidize a capital-intensive money-losing website that will use machine learning algorithms to answer people's questions," I would have been like: No no no, the other way. You subsidize the space exploration with money from the website. The websiteis cheap and lucrative and scalable; the space explorationis the expensive bit with uncertain commercial prospects.

February 3, 2026 at 7:56 PM

by Sue Crengle

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Sue Crengle

@tieke.bsky.social

Do either spacex or xai make a profit? Tesla’s tanking. Hope potential investors recognise this as the rort it is and run like the wind… www.the guardian.com/science/2026/feb/02/elon-musk-spacex-xai-merger?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Elon Musk merges SpaceX with xAI at $1.25tn valuation

Aerospace business and artificial intelligence firm to unite for IPO as world’s most valuable private company

www.theguardian.com

February 3, 2026 at 8:36 AM

by Hugh Pemberton

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Scholar power: 4.5%

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🎓 Hugh Pemberton	4%	14	4.5%

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Hugh Pemberton

@hugh-pemberton.bsky.social

Episode #95 in the blockbuster series "The Long Con".

How Elon Musk used SpaceX to rescue xAI and build a $1.25tn colossus - www.ft.com/content/9d2b... via @FT

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

Billionaire folds rocket maker into a lossmaking AI start-up, betting scale and control can beat rivals to blockbuster IPO

www.ft.com

February 3, 2026 at 3:53 PM

by Paul Davies

23%

Scholar power: 23.7%

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Paul J Davies

@pauljdavies.bsky.social

SpaceX is the anti-Google! Lol at @matt-levine.bsky.social

www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...

February 3, 2026 at 7:31 PM

Reposted by Henry Jones

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Raw Story

@rawstory.com

Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who owns the social media platform X, had his offices in France raided Tuesday as part of an ongoing criminal probe into the potential "dissemination of child pornography," The Wall Street Journal reported.

Elon Musk’s French offices raided in child pornography investigation: report

Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who owns the social media platform X, had his offices in France raided Tuesday as part of an ongoing criminal probe into the potential “dissemination of child pornography,” The Wall Street Journal reported. The investigation stems from the social media platform’s ability to gene...

bit.ly

February 3, 2026 at 12:55 PM

by Timothy Graham

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🎓 Timothy Graham	5%	18	6.4%

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Timothy Graham

@timothyjgraham.bsky.social

Can’t wait to see all the politicians and opinion leaders crying outrage over the widespread child abuse and misogyny on X, from their still-active X accounts www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

French police raid X offices in Paris as Musk summoned to hearing

A widening probe into the platform is investigating alleged abuse of algorithms and fraudulent data extraction.

www.abc.net.au

February 3, 2026 at 1:48 PM

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