Tag: Elon Musk

SpaceX Is Moving Into Wireless. Telecom Giants Have a New Problem.
News • October 26, 2026

SpaceX Is Moving Into Wireless. Telecom Giants Have a New Problem.

For years, Starlink had a fairly straightforward relationship with the mobile industry. SpaceX launched satellites, traditional carriers operated cellular networks, and the two could cooperate to bring connectivity to places where building cell towers made little economic sense. That arrangement is becoming considerably less comfortable for Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile. On October 8, 2026, SpaceX […]

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Elon Musk Says Neuralink Could Restore Sight to the Blind. Scientists Say It’s Not That Simple.
Future Tech • October 23, 2026

Elon Musk Says Neuralink Could Restore Sight to the Blind. Scientists Say It’s Not That Simple.

Elon Musk wants to give blind people their sight back. Eventually, he wants to give them something better than ordinary human vision: the ability to perceive infrared, ultraviolet and even information collected by radar. His company Neuralink is developing a brain implant called Blindsight that would bypass the eyes and deliver electrical signals directly to […]

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Tesla Wants to Be an AI Giant. Its Investors Still Have to Pay for It.
AI • October 22, 2026

Tesla Wants to Be an AI Giant. Its Investors Still Have to Pay for It.

Tesla is about to report another quarter of car sales, margins and cash flow. Yet the company’s most consequential financial question concerns products that barely contribute to its revenue today: autonomous taxis, humanoid robots and the artificial intelligence infrastructure needed to make them work. For years, Tesla’s investment case rested on an ambitious but recognizable […]

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Blue Origin Wants to Go Public. Its Real Challenge Is Proving It Can Scale.
Future Tech • October 12, 2026

Blue Origin Wants to Go Public. Its Real Challenge Is Proving It Can Scale.

Jeff Bezos has spent 26 years building a space company with the financial patience of a billionaire and the ambitions of a national space program. Now Blue Origin is preparing for something that could fundamentally change how the business operates: outside shareholders. On October 8, Bezos confirmed that Blue Origin had completed its first external […]

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Starship Finally Made Orbit. Now SpaceX Has to Make It Routine.
Future Tech • September 29, 2026

Starship Finally Made Orbit. Now SpaceX Has to Make It Routine.

Starship finally did the thing that every orbital launch vehicle is ultimately built to do. On September 28, SpaceX’s enormous rocket reached Earth orbit for the first time and released 26 operational Starlink V3 satellites, turning its fourteenth integrated flight into something fundamentally different from the thirteen that came before it. It was also an […]

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How Big Tech Became Too Big to Regulate and What It Means for Your Money
Big Tech • September 27, 2026

How Big Tech Became Too Big to Regulate and What It Means for Your Money

In Blade Runner, Eldon Tyrell does not spend much time worrying about governments. His corporation manufactures the artificial workers on which an entire off-world economy depends. Tyrell does not operate within the system so much as occupy one of the layers holding it together. We used to watch that and think: dystopian science fiction. We […]

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AI Safety Just Became a Market Variable.
AI Industry • September 14, 2026

AI Safety Just Became a Market Variable.

AI safety used to sit in a separate box from the AI investment thesis. One conversation was about alignment, misuse, regulation and existential risk. The other was about GPUs, cloud revenue, data centers and how many billions of dollars the hyperscalers could spend before somebody finally asked for a receipt. On September 14, those boxes […]

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Elon Musk Is the Closest Thing We Have to Eldon Tyrell
Movies & TV • September 4, 2026

Elon Musk Is the Closest Thing We Have to Eldon Tyrell

In Blade Runner, Eldon Tyrell is not simply a billionaire. He is the architect of a civilization. His corporation manufactures the artificial workers that keep an entire economic system running. His monumental pyramid rises above Los Angeles like the headquarters of a new form of sovereignty. Tyrell is not elected. He is not accountable to […]

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SpaceX Doesn’t Just Need Wall Street Anymore. It Needs Gas.
Future Tech • September 1, 2026

SpaceX Doesn’t Just Need Wall Street Anymore. It Needs Gas.

SpaceX spent June proving that Wall Street was willing to fund Elon Musk’s next act. Now comes the harder part: building the industrial machine behind it. The company’s new $100 billion Starbase Louisiana project is designed to operate on a scale that looks less like a conventional launch site and more like a vertically integrated […]

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