Musk creates trillion dollar company

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Ryan Mac 🙃

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A memo just went out to employees at two of Musk's companies: SpaceX has acquired xAI.

February 2, 2026 at 9:38 PM

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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 · 1d

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

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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

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Paul J Davies

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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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Stephen C. Smith

@wordsmithfl.bsky.social

#Space #NASA

From Yahoo Finance: #SpaceX acquires #xAI to build data centers in space.

"Musk said the big push behind the merger are data centers in space and space-based AI."

finance.yahoo.com/news/musk-co...

Musk confirms SpaceX merger with xAI ahead of IPO

SpaceX will merge with xAI in a deal that consolidates two of Elon Musk's biggest private startups.

finance.yahoo.com

February 2, 2026 at 11:16 PM

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Rodney Brooks

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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

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Jo Wolff

@jowolff.bsky.social

“The billionaire cited the need to build data centers in space as one of the main drivers for the transaction.”

Elon Musk Merges SpaceX With His A.I. Start-Up xAI www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/b...

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

www.nytimes.com

February 2, 2026 at 10:08 PM

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Amir Attaran

@amirattaran.bsky.social

Forget the business of it. The physics of it are stupid. It is EXTREMELY difficult to cool things in the vacuum of space, least of an AI data centre which runs hot like a volcano. Anyone with science literacy smells a fraud here.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

Breaking News: Elon Musk merged SpaceX with his A.I. start-up, xAI, creating the world’s most valuable private company.

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

The deal would further intermingle Mr. Musk’s companies and create the most valuable private company on earth.

nyti.ms

February 2, 2026 at 10:53 PM

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Brian JM Quinn

@bjmquinn.bsky.social

Ok, so this deal only makes sense in one way. Tesla is “about” AI and autonomy. xAI should have merged with Tesla (also stupid, but whatevs). Unless, you are desperate for xAI to get an exit without to much fuss, then it makes sense. Kind of. It’s all dumb.

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 1d

So X was acquired by xAI in March of last year. And now xAI is being acquired by SpaceX? Interesting.

Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 1d

A memo just went out to employees at two of Musk's companies: SpaceX has acquired xAI.

February 2, 2026 at 11:44 PM

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Anadarko

@anadarkocapital.bsky.social

So in the last 3 months, X was bought out by xAI, xAI got bought out by SpaceX?

February 2, 2026 at 10:36 PM

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Stephen C. Smith

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By the way ... Because Zombie Twitter is owned by xAI, this means that Zombie Twitter is now owned by SpaceX. 😱

Wrap your brain around that ...

Stephen C. Smith @wordsmithfl.bsky.social · 1d

#Space #NASA

From Yahoo Finance: #SpaceX acquires #xAI to build data centers in space.

"Musk said the big push behind the merger are data centers in space and space-based AI."

finance.yahoo.com/news/musk-co...

Musk confirms SpaceX merger with xAI ahead of IPO

SpaceX will merge with xAI in a deal that consolidates two of Elon Musk's biggest private startups.

finance.yahoo.com

February 2, 2026 at 11:18 PM

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Sue Crengle

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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

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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 · 1d

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

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kate conger

@kateconger.com

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

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

www.nytimes.com

February 2, 2026 at 10:03 PM

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The New York Times

@nytimes.com

Breaking News: Elon Musk merged SpaceX with his A.I. start-up, xAI, creating the world’s most valuable private company.

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

The deal would further intermingle Mr. Musk’s companies and create the most valuable private company on earth.

nyti.ms

February 2, 2026 at 10:03 PM

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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

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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

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