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15 stories in the last two weeks

Bloomberg ·

OpenAI, Meta, and SpaceXAI may be able to put pressure on Anthropic by emphasizing cost efficiency, as business customers increasingly scrutinize AI spending

Three prominent artificial intelligence developers released new models over the past week. They all promise to be more advanced …

Axios ·

Grok 4.5 is available in Grok Build, in Cursor, and from the SpaceXAI console, but not in the EU; it costs $2 per 1M input tokens and $6 per 1M output tokens

Elon Musk's SpaceXAI is launching Grok 4.5, its smartest model yet, and its first release since going public and acquiring the AI coding startup Cursor.

New York Times ·

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is raising $10B at a $130B pre-money valuation, its first outside funding round, including $4B from Coatue and $2B from Bezos

The rocket company founded by Jeff Bezos is set to take on external investors for the first time, at a $130 billion valuation.

Grace Kay / The Information ·

Memo: SpaceXAI and Cursor plan to launch their first jointly developed AI model as soon as Wednesday, after pushing back the launch to improve model efficiency

SpaceXAI and Cursor plan to launch their first jointly developed AI model as soon as Wednesday, according to a memo sent to staff.

Kelsey Vlamis / Business Insider ·

XAI rebrands to SpaceXAI and unveils a new logo; Elon Musk said in May that xAI would be dissolved as a separate company and become the AI products from SpaceX

- xAI has officially been rebranded to SpaceXAI.

Jeremie Eliahou Ontiveros / SemiAnalysis ·

Meta could use its compute for its own models, ad scaling, SpaceX-like neocloud deals, and hosting 3rd-party models; it may be close to an Anthropic deal

Zuck Takes Plan B? SpaceX 2.0, Bedrock 2.0, MSL Isn't Giving Up, Scaling RecSys by 10x... ClusterMAX ranking coming soon?

Wall Street Journal ·

How Jeff Bezos' changing relationship with President Trump has helped Amazon and Blue Origin, such as more federal contracts awarded during Trump's second term

Space company has booked rapid growth under this administration, after founder spent president's first term being 'hated'

Thomas Ricker / The Verge ·

Amazon says Leo now has 396 satellites in low-Earth orbit, following a July 1 launch, which is "enough to support continuous service across initial latitudes"

Early adopters of Amazon Leo should temper expectations. … Amazon says it now has enough satellites operating …

Wall Street Journal ·

SpaceX showed investors a handset-like device prototype with AI tech from xAI, a proprietary OS, a Snapdragon chip, and a design slimmer than an iPhone

The sleek, handset-like prototype was designed to integrate AI technology from SpaceX's xAI

Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg ·

SpaceX cuts monthly Starlink prices in half in the Memphis area, as it endures blowback and legal challenges from opponents of its Colossus data centers

SpaceX is offering discounts for Starlink internet plans in Memphis, Tennessee, as the Elon Musk-led company endures blowback …

Semafor ·

The Trump administration has talked with SpaceX about donating shares to Trump Accounts, which provide children with tax-advantaged savings accounts

THE SCOOP

Emma Roth / The Verge ·

Rocket Lab plans to acquire Iridium for $8B and combine Rocket Lab's launch services with Iridium's satellite-based communications network to rival SpaceX

Iridium's constellation of 66 satellites provides communications for 2.5 million subscribers.

Tripp Mickle / New York Times ·

Intel has promised to deliver SpaceX and Apple a toolkit this fall to test its 14A node before they make final commitments to produce chips with Intel

At a tech conference in San Francisco this week, admirers surrounded Lip-Bu Tan, the chief executive of Intel …

Kelcee Griffis / Bloomberg ·

SpaceX and Charter have held executive-level talks on a consumer mobile phone offering, which would help SpaceX become a DTC mobile phone provider

SpaceX and Charter Communications Inc. have held executive-level talks about partnering on a consumer mobile phone offering, according to people familiar with the matter.

Samantha Subin / CNBC ·

SpaceX announces an offering of senior unsecured notes and discloses it has ~$100.8B in cash; SPCX closes down 16.43% in its third consecutive losing session

SpaceX on Monday announced a senior unsecured notes offering and disclosed about $100.8 billion in cash.

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