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Elon Musk’s Mars illusion

A look at the science behind Elon Musk’s goal of a million-person city on Mars, and why planetary scientists say terraforming the planet to make it habitable would take centuries, if it’s possible at all. The revenue Musk says will pay for the Mars effort comes from Starlink, the satellite network SpaceX designs and builds in Redmond. Read More

SpaceX leapfrogs Amazon and briefly tops Microsoft in market value on Cursor acquisition news

Shares of SpaceX surged Tuesday, pushing the Elon Musk-led company above Amazon and into a neck-and-neck race with Microsoft for the title of the world’s fourth-most valuable public company less than a week after its blockbuster $75 billion IPO. Read More

Opinion: SpaceX is no Tesla

Seattle AI veteran Oren Etzioni argues that SpaceX’s record-setting IPO valuation prices in three unproven bets at once — and that the Tesla playbook doesn’t apply at this starting point. Read More

SpaceX is churning out 70 Starlink satellites a week in Redmond, and other tidbits from its IPO filing

SpaceX disclosed in its S-1 filing that its Redmond, Wash., facility produces approximately 70 Starlink satellites per week, putting hard production numbers on the operation for the first time. The filing also reveals Starlink’s financials and names several Pacific Northwest companies as competitors. Read More

Inside the courthouse as Elon Musk’s suit against OpenAI and Microsoft goes to trial

Amid the feud between two of tech’s most polarizing personalities, Elon Musk and Sam Altman, Microsoft might seem like a subplot, but its actions are at the heart of the case. We’re at the courthouse in Oakland as jury selection begins. Read More

Inside OpenAI’s new Bellevue office: A swanky statement about AI’s impact on the Seattle region

OpenAI marked the grand opening its new office in downtown Bellevue, Wash., its largest outside of San Francisco, with room to grow to 1,400 employees. Read More

Pre-trial fight in OpenAI case focuses on Elon Musk’s dual role as Microsoft partner and plaintiff

Pre-trial motions in Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft focus in part on his company’s business dealings with the Redmond company, and what that means for his credibility as a witness. Read More

Elon Musk’s xAI lands in Bellevue, joining OpenAI in growing Eastside AI corridor

Elon Musk’s xAI is setting up shop in downtown Bellevue, with job listings showing the office will go beyond infrastructure to serve as a hub for core AI model development. Read More

What is an AI ‘superfactory’? Microsoft unveils new approach to building and linking data centers

Microsoft unveiled its first AI “superfactory,” linking data centers in Wisconsin and Atlanta through a high-speed fiber network. It will use hundreds of thousands of Nvidia GPUs to train and run advanced AI models for key Microsoft partners such as OpenAI, and for Microsoft’s own internal models. Read More

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Elon Musk’s Mars illusion

SpaceX leapfrogs Amazon and briefly tops Microsoft in market value on Cursor acquisition news

Opinion: SpaceX is no Tesla

SpaceX is churning out 70 Starlink satellites a week in Redmond, and other tidbits from its IPO filing

Inside the courthouse as Elon Musk’s suit against OpenAI and Microsoft goes to trial

Inside OpenAI’s new Bellevue office: A swanky statement about AI’s impact on the Seattle region

Pre-trial fight in OpenAI case focuses on Elon Musk’s dual role as Microsoft partner and plaintiff

Elon Musk’s xAI lands in Bellevue, joining OpenAI in growing Eastside AI corridor

Elon Musk’s xAI plans Seattle hub with engineering jobs paying up to $440k

Did Elon Musk really intern at Microsoft? Plus: AI agents, job cuts, and an economic warning

Microsoft expands AI roster with Anthropic and xAI integrations, looking beyond OpenAI alliance

Elon and Satya, together again: Microsoft brings Musk’s xAI models to Azure, despite OpenAI feud