Elon Musk’s last co-founder reportedly leaves xAI
All but two of Musk’s 11 xAI co-founders departed before this week.
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Bluetti’s Sora 500 solar panel is incredibly powerful for its size
We don’t review many solar panels at The Verge, but the tech inside Bluetti’s incredibly portable Sora 500 panel makes it worth a deeper look. The new N-Type panels made by Bluetti and others give you more bang for the buck, pound, and square inch. That’s a big deal for vanlifers like me who depend […]
The improved battery-powered Starlink Mini is here
My Starlink Mini has radically changed the way I live. It’s the biggest reason I can work remotely from my converted van, providing fast and reliable internet in places that traditional 4G and 5G data signals don’t reach. Peakdo’s latest LinkPower battery makes the smallest Starlink terminal even better by setting it free from power […]
This SpaceX veteran says the next big thing in space is satellites that return to Earth
The company’s first demonstration mission is expected in early 2027.
Freeform raises $67M Series B to scale up laser AI manufacturing
“I think we’re the only quote-unquote manufacturing company out there that has H200 clusters in a data center on site.”
Are Elon Musk’s Mars plans finally coming back down to Earth?
Maybe you’ve heard, but Elon Musk is apparently a Moon fan now. He has historically been the ultimate cheerleader for human missions to Mars, and as recently as last year, he said his aim was to go straight to the red planet and that the Moon was “a distraction.” Now, he has apparently changed his […]
SpaceX vets raise $50M Series A for data center links
Mesh aims to mass-produce optical transceivers for AI data centers.
Why the economics of orbital AI are so brutal
A 1 Gw orbital data center would cost roughly $42.4B—almost three times its ground-bound equivalent.