07 May 2026
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Plans $55 Billion Investment to Make AI Chips
The scale of Elon Musk’s ambitious plan to build a giant computer chip plant in Texas is becoming clear — and it is stunning. The first stage of the chip manufacturing project led by his rocket company, SpaceX, will cost at least $55 billion, according to a public hearing notice filed on Wednesday in Grimes County, Texas, where the factory will be located.
07 May 2026
Elon Musk’s lawsuit is putting OpenAI’s safety record under the microscope
Elon Musk’s legal effort to dismantle OpenAI may hinge on how its for-profit subsidiary enhances or detracts from the frontier lab’s founding mission of ensuring that humanity benefits from artificial general intelligence.
07 May 2026
OpenAI trial: Mother of Musk's children says he offered Altman a Tesla board seat
Shivon Zilis, former board member of OpenAI Inc., arrives at the federal court in Oakland, California, US, on Wednesday, May 6, 2026. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images The high-stakes trial in Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will conclude its second week of proceedings on Thursday.
07 May 2026
Roadmap for a space-to-space economy
Launch is the foundation of the space industry, to the point that many conflate it with the space industry in entirety because it is literally the loudest, most spectacular element we see. But the quietly orbiting satellites overhead are what really drive the space economy.
07 May 2026
Oakland: Jury Hears Testimony From Musk Advisor & Mother Of His Children In Openai Case
At the federal courthouse in Oakland Wednesday -- the seventh day in the trial of Elon Musk's lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI -- the jury heard the testimony of Shivon Zilis, a former OpenAI board member with a close and complicated relationship with Musk.
07 May 2026
SpaceX to cut Falcon 9 launches as focus shifts to Starship
SpaceX is reducing the share of launches by its workhorse Falcon 9 rocket and reorganising its launch system around the next-generation heavy-lift Starship.
06 May 2026
SpaceX is starting to move on from the world's most successful rocket
It is far too soon to mention retirement, but astute observers of the space industry have noticed SpaceX’s workhorse Falcon 9 rocket is not launching as often as it used to.
06 May 2026
A Proposed Billionaire Tax Exposes The Dual-Share Racket: Justin Fox
An underappreciated aspect of the one-time 5% billionaire wealth tax likely to go before California voters in November is that for several of the state’s most prominent billionaires, the rate might be far higher than 5%.
05 May 2026
OpenAI co-founder says he feared Musk would ‘physically attack’ him
Greg Brockman, a co-founder of OpenAI, testified Tuesday that he feared Elon Musk would "physically attack" him during a heated 2017 meeting where Musk opposed equal equity shares in a proposed for-profit OpenAI arm.
