Elon Musk Pivots to the Moon, Calls It the Fastest Path to Saving Civilization

Elon Musk shifts SpaceX’s focus from Mars to building a self-growing city on the moon, citing speed, strategy, and rising competition from China.
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Amazon Supercharges Space Internet Plans With 4,500-Satellite Expansion

The FCC approved 4,500 more Amazon LEO satellites, expanding its constellation to 7,700 as it ramps up competition with SpaceX’s Starlink.
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX Merges With xAI in $1.25T Deal

The vision? Relocate the most resource-intensive parts of AI development off Earth and into orbit.
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SpaceX Eyes Mergers With Musk Companies as IPO Nears

Such a deal would combine SpaceX with xAI, which owns the X social media platform and develops the Grok chatbot.
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Vital Lyfe Gets Vital Lift for Water Technology Ambitions

California-based startup will use funding for the development of portable, autonomous water-making systems designed to work anywhere in the world.
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Elon Musk‘s SpaceX IPO Targets $1.5T Valuation

SpaceX‘s public offering strategy will raise more than $30 billion—three times more than the company has raised in its entire 23-year existence since 2002.
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Trump Says Tech Billionaire Isaacman Will ‘Lead NASA Into a Bold New Era’

President Trump renominates tech billionaire and private astronaut Jared Isaacman to lead NASA, signaling a bold fusion of politics, business, and space.
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Sen. Hassan wants to hear from SpaceX about scammers abusing Starlink

It’s time for SpaceX to take strong action against scammers abusing the company’s Starlink internet service, Sen. Maggie Hassan said in a letter to CEO Elon Musk on Monday. The New Hampshire Democrat cited evidence accumulating over the past two years that some Southeast Asian fraudsters scamming billions of dollars from U.S. citizens have leaned […]

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xAI Dev Leaks API Key for Private SpaceX, Tesla LLMs

A employee at Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI leaked a private key on GitHub that for the past two months could have allowed anyone to query private xAI large language models (LLMs) which appear to have been custom made for working with internal data from Musk’s companies, including SpaceX, Tesla and Twitter/X, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Continue reading xAI Dev Leaks API Key for Private SpaceX, Tesla LLMs

Whistleblower: DOGE Siphoned NLRB Case Data

A security architect with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) alleges that employees from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) transferred gigabytes of sensitive data from agency case files in early March, using short-lived accounts configured to leave few traces of network activity. The NLRB whistleblower said the unusual large data outflows coincided with multiple blocked login attempts from an Internet address in Russia that tried to use valid credentials for a newly-created DOGE user account. Continue reading Whistleblower: DOGE Siphoned NLRB Case Data