Elon Musk’s SpaceX might invest $2 billion in Musk’s xAI
One Elon Musk business might be making a big investment in another.
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Former SpaceX manager alleges harassment, retaliation, and security violations in lawsuit
Previous lawsuits against SpaceX have alleged similar stories of bias against female employees and a hostile work environment that enabled gender-based harassment.
Congress just greenlit a NASA moon plan opposed by Musk and Isaacman
The $10 billion addition to the Artemis architecture, which includes funding for additional Space Launch System rockets and an orbiting station around the moon called Gateway, is a rebuke to critics who wished to see alternative technologies used instead.
Trump says he’ll look into deporting Musk as fight over bill escalates
President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s fighting over the “big, beautiful” domestic policy bill has returned to the spotlight, with the president telling reporters on Tuesday that “we’ll have to take a look” into deporting the billionaire. He also proposed targeting Musk via the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), saying, “We might have to put […]
SpaceX Starship explodes again, this time on the ground
Late Wednesday night at about 11PM CT, SpaceX was about to perform a static fire test of Ship 36, ahead of a planned 10th flight test for its Starship, when there was suddenly a massive explosion at the Massey’s Testing Center site. SpaceX says “A safety clear area around the site was maintained throughout the […]
Let’s all do a dramatic reading of Trump and Musk’s mean posts
Donald Trump and Elon Musk, two of the most media-addled personalities of our time, are publicly torching their relationship by posting on the public social media networks they each respectively own. I have seen theories that this is kayfabe, and I don’t buy it. Trump and Musk have publicly shit-talked people, including each other, before […]
Trump pulls Musk ally’s NASA Administrator nomination
Just one day after Elon Musk’s public departure from his role as a White House employee, the Trump Administration pulled its nomination of Musk ally Jared Isaacman to become the new NASA Administrator. First reported earlier on Saturday by Semafor, citing anonymous sources, the move has been confirmed by White House spokesperson Liz Huston. The […]
SpaceX rockets keep exploding. Is that normal?
With yet another failed Starship test this week, in which the ambitious heavy rocket exploded once again, you might reasonably suspect that luck has finally run out for SpaceX. But this degree of failure during a development process isn’t actually unusual, according to Wendy Whitman Cobb, a space policy expert with the School of Advanced […]
Elon Musk sure does want everyone to think he’s leaving politics
For the past several months, it seemed like President Donald Trump and Elon Musk were inseparable. The tech billionaire and “First Buddy” championed Trump on his reelection campaign trail, slept at the White House, attended deal-making dinners at Mar-a-Lago, and chainsawed a giant hole in the government with firings and spending cuts through DOGE. Now, […]