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Tue, Sep 29
Nvidia launches the Open Agent Safety Platform, pairing a CPU sandbox with DPU hardware monitoring to keep AI agents contained, with 100+ partners
The stronger the agent, the more it needs a supervisor it cannot reach, and that gives security a hardware product line that can carry a price tag.
SpaceX's Starship reaches orbit for the first time and deploys 26 Starlink V3 satellites, roughly ten times a Falcon 9 launch's added capacity
How much a rocket can carry is not the point; whether it can fly every week decides if that capacity is a number on paper or a real cost.
Thu, Sep 17
Musk leaves open a SpaceX–Tesla merger, while Terafab already puts both companies inside one chip project
Terafab proves the companies can build assets together, but governance costs make an equity merger far harder than technical cooperation.
Sat, Sep 12
SpaceX Reportedly Reworks Data-Center Strategy Around Power and Cooling Redundancy
SpaceX is shifting from raw construction speed toward reliability, making power and cooling redundancy hard constraints on expansion.
Mon, Aug 31
Cursor's co-founder responds: OpenAI is 5% of traffic; Musk "couldn't care less"
One line — "I thought it was neutral" — demoted model supply from infrastructure back to a commercial relationship.
Musk says SpaceX is casting its own blades, pulling gas turbines forward by 18 months
Only one bottleneck separates building rockets from casting turbine blades; the AI capacity race has reached heavy industry.
Thu, Aug 20
Anthropic Prepares Super-Voting Shares for Founders, Paving the Way for a Possible September IPO
A company that wrote safety into its mission is going public — the hardest thing to negotiate was never valuation; it's who gets to press the stop button when things are at their worst.
SpaceX Approached AI Coding Company Cognition, Founder Says It's Not for Sale
Coding-tool acquisition prices have risen high enough for a rocket company to buy twice in a row, and deciding whether to sell is becoming the most expensive option a founder carries.
Sat, Aug 15
Anthropic's Q2 Revenue Tops $11.5 Billion, Adjusted Operating Profit Turns Positive for the First Time
The early arrival of the breakeven point does more to hold up the $2 trillion pricing table than the doubling of revenue.
SpaceX Closes $60B Cursor Acquisition, Team Folds Into SpaceXAI
The decisive edge in coding tools has shifted from product experience to the compute and parent-company distribution behind them.
Nvidia Filings Disclose ~$21B Stake in SpaceX, $30B in Intel
The 13F provides, for the first time, a verifiable ledger of how much of Nvidia's downstream demand comes from customers it funds.
Saudi Sovereign Fund Opens SpaceX Position in Q2, $26.34B Becomes Its Largest US Holding
Sovereign funds are no longer routing their AI exposure through funds and startups; they are buying the largest names directly in public markets.
Mon, Aug 10
SemiAnalysis Estimates: SpaceX to Build ~10GW Compute by End of 2027, Annual Revenue Run Rate Up to $300B
The real bet in this estimate comes down to a single variable: whether the 3–5 month delivery cycle can be replicated at GW scale — if it can, pricing power follows delivery speed.
Musk: Starlink V3 Satellites Deliver 100x the Bandwidth of the V2 System; Starlink Revenue to Hit $20 Billion This Year
The $20 billion is this year's realized revenue; the $200 billion is a promissory note payable once capacity is delivered — and what separates the two is precisely Starship's production ramp.
Sat, Aug 8
SemiAnalysis Says SpaceX to Build ~10GW of Compute by End of 2027, Microsoft Is Largest Buyer
Ten gigawatts is not a power problem; it's a production-scheduling problem.
SpaceX's $60 Billion Acquisition of Cursor Could Close Next Week, Cursor Brand May Be Dropped
What the $60 billion buys is not an editor—it's millions of real programming trajectories every day.
A Discarded SpaceX Falcon 9 Upper Stage Hit the Moon's Far Side on August 5
The far side of the moon has one more crater, and no document on Earth needs to sign off on it.
Thu, Aug 6
Meta debuts first coding agent Muse Code, with output priced at $4.25 per million tokens
The coding-model price war is on — the first shot lands on competitors' margins, and the ammunition is data.
Musk says SpaceX will use only Nvidia chips, betting on Vera Rubin architecture
A single sentence — "only Nvidia" — has already set aside a large chunk of next year's GPU production schedule.
Wed, Aug 5
SpaceX Q2 Capital Expenditures Surge to $18.4B, $15.8B to AI, Shares Slide Over 6% After Hours
The romance of launching compute into orbit ultimately has to be paid off on the depreciation schedule.