Google launches Project Suncatcher’s first prototype satellite on SpaceX’s Transporter-18 mission to test Trillium AI chips in low Earth orbit, ahead of a 2027 two-satellite laser-link demonstration for orbital TPU clusters.
Physical Superintelligence (PSI) launches from stealth with $58M in seed funding, unveiling its AI physics platform Emmy and partnering on a privately funded interstellar mission to Alpha Centauri, proving a small AI-native team can tackle challenges once reserved for national laboratories.
Elon Musk is pushing to launch AI data centers into orbit, claiming unlimited solar power could make space-based computing cheaper than Earth-based systems within three years, though experts warn massive technical and cost hurdles make his aggressive timeline highly unlikely.
SpaceX and Nvidia are partnering to launch orbital AI data centers by Q4 2027, Thomson Reuters debuts a proprietary legal AI model outperforming top competitors, and Chinese state-linked hackers have more than doubled their cyberattacks after weaponizing DeepSeek's low-cost, low-guardrail capabilities.
SpaceX shares fall after the company reveals a staggering $28.5 billion in AI capital expenditures in the first half of 2026, more than four times last year's spending, alarming investors despite strong inaugural earnings that beat Wall Street expectations.
SpaceX makes history with the largest IPO ever, surging 19% to close at $161 per share and hitting a $2 trillion valuation, driven by its $250 billion xAI acquisition and orbital AI data center plans, even as critics warn a massive AI valuation bubble may be forming in real time.
Jeff Bezos calls space-based data centers 'very realistic' but pushes back on Elon Musk's aggressive 2-3 year timeline, as Blue Origin targets a 2027 launch for 'Project Sunrise,' a bold plan to deploy 51,600 data center satellites into low Earth orbit, while space stocks surge amid SpaceX's anticipated IPO at …
Google and SpaceX are in active talks to launch orbital data centers in space, though current analysis suggests terrestrial data centers remain far more cost-effective once satellite construction and launch costs are factored in.
Elon Musk merges xAI into SpaceX, dissolving it as an independent company and creating a new internal division called SpaceXAI to oversee X and Grok, deeply integrating AI across SpaceX's operations and connecting it to the company's $119 billion TERAFAB semiconductor fab and upcoming Starship V3.
Anthropic secures a massive deal with SpaceX for 220,000 Nvidia GPUs and 300 megawatts of compute power, lifts usage caps for paid subscribers, and explores building orbital AI data centers in space as AI demand continues to surge.