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xAI Blasts Off: SpaceX Acquires xAI, Musk Wants Data Centers in Space
SpaceX acquired xAI to form the world's most valuable private company ($1.25 trillion). Beyond giving xAI cash to compete with OpenAI and friends, Musk wants to build solar-powered data centers in space — but the physics of heat dissipation and space debris might be harder problems than training LLMs.
February 7, 2026: The Singularity Is Managing Its Own Headcount (And Pigs Are Flying)
Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross's daily tech briefing: AI agents as full-time employees in China, OpenAI banning human coding, Claude Opus 4.6 topping benchmarks, rabbit brain cryopreservation, $1 trillion chip sales, SpaceX dismantling the Moon for data centers — and a pig that actually flew