Spacex

SpaceX is a privately owned aerospace company founded in 2002 by Elon Musk. SpaceX has successfully launched numerous missions for both private and government clients. The company's key executives include Elon Musk as CEO and Gwynne Shotwell as President and COO. Competitors in the industry include Boeing, United Launch Alliance, and Blue Origin.
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SpaceX’s Musk Lauds Its Soaring Cloud Business and Possible Tesla Merger

By Nick Wingfield · Oct 20, 2026 5:01pm PDT
SpaceX put on a bit of a show for shareholders today—and I’m not referring to the sizzle reel of rocket and space videos it showed on its earnings call. No, the big attention grabber was the update from CEO Elon Musk on the progress of SpaceX’s contemplated merger with Tesla and just how involved—or not involved he is in the whole affair. ... SpaceX put on a bit of a show for shareholders today—and I’m not referring to the sizzle reel of...
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Cursor Staff Investigated Whether Confidential Data Reached SpaceX for AI Training

By Grace Kay · Oct 15, 2026 6:00am PDT
In the weeks before SpaceX’s AI unit in August introduced Grok Bot, its version of a personal AI agent, engineers at Cursor discovered a potential problem. Cursor, the AI coding startup SpaceX was then in the process of acquiring, was developing Grok Bot, and as part of that process, employees across Cursor were using the tool extensively for... In the weeks before SpaceX’s AI unit in August introduced Grok Bot, its version of a personal AI...
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How SpaceX’s AI Unit Turned Itself Into an AI Cloud Firm

By Grace Kay · Oct 1, 2026 6:01am PDT · 1 comment
SpaceX’s AI unit held talks over the summer about leasing computing capacity to Microsoft, say people familiar with the matter, a sign of how fully Elon Musk has embraced the neocloud business after his initial reluctance. Selling computing power has quickly become one of SpaceX’s most lucrative businesses, generating billions of dollars a month... SpaceX’s AI unit held talks over the summer about leasing computing capacity to Microsoft, say...
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Anthropic, SpaceX and Meta Cash Grabs

By Nick Wingfield · Oct 26, 2026 5:06pm PDT
If it feels like it’s getting stuffy, that’s because the AI industry’s biggest names are doing their best to suck all the air out of the room. On Monday, Anthropic, SpaceX and Meta Platforms all unveiled their respective plans for raising gobs of cash to fund their AI ambitions, which could collectively add up to almost a quarter of a trillion... If it feels like it’s getting stuffy, that’s because the AI industry’s biggest names are doing...
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How Musk Kept Bankers Guessing in Sprint to SpaceX IPO

By Valida Pau · Jun 12, 2026 12:43pm PDT · 1 comment
High up in Goldman Sachs’ downtown Manhattan headquarters Thursday afternoon, bankers from Goldman and Morgan Stanley, together with SpaceX executives, toasted the pricing of SpaceX’s IPO over glasses of Champagne. In many ways, it was a replay of hundreds of other such celebrations. But the SpaceX IPO was anything but normal. For seven months,... High up in Goldman Sachs’ downtown Manhattan headquarters Thursday afternoon, bankers from...