
NY Post - 11 hours 38 min ago
SpaceX boosted its target initial public offering valuation above $2 trillion, according to Bloomberg.

Ars Technica - 13 hours 8 min ago
Some banks "agreed to spend tens of millions on the chatbot," NYT reports.

Engadget - 14 hours 23 min ago
Cutthroat capitalism sure does bring out the best in humanity. Take, for example, Elon Musk. He reportedly set a condition for banks, law firms, auditors and advisors who want to work on the SpaceX IPO. They're required to subscribe to the bastion of nonconsensual deepfakes and occasional Hitler praise known as Grok. Surely the best and brightest banks our nation has to offer would refuse such a pay-to-play demand, right? Well, no. The New York Times reports that some of them have agreed to...

Forbes - 15 hours 31 min ago
The offering is expected to be the largest in history.

Digital Music News - 15 hours 41 min ago
Major music publishers' long-running copyright infringement lawsuit against X is now on hard pause following the Supreme Court's Cox v. Sony Music decision. The presiding judge made that pause official in a recent order, after the publishers and the Elon Musk-owned social platform asked the court to "stay all current deadlines." And the stay request […]...

Mother Jones - 16 hours 20 min ago
If you have the good fortune of not spending time on Elon Musk's X, it is hard to grasp just how blatant the anti-Muslim hate coming from GOP lawmakers and tolerated by their leaders has become. Take Rep. Andy Ogles, the Tennessee Republican who declared last month that "Muslims don't belong in American society." Since that post, […]...

New York Times - 16 hours 39 min ago
Elon Musk has promoted Grok, his A.I. chatbot, as the antidote to political correctness.

Newser - 18 hours 55 min ago
Banks looking for a piece of SpaceX's blockbuster stock debut are finding there's a condition attached: Sign up for Elon Musk's chatbot. According to people familiar with the talks, Musk is telling banks, law firms, auditors, and other advisers that if they want in on SpaceX's expected $50 billion-plus initial...

Newser - 22 hours 55 min ago
Elon Musk's rocket company may be lining up one of the world's biggest investors for one of the market's biggest debuts. SpaceX has held talks with Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF) about the kingdom's sovereign wealth fund potentially putting about $5 billion into SpaceX's planned IPO, two sources tell...