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Fake OpenAI and SpaceX events used to steal Microsoft and Google accounts
Hackers run fake registration pages for AI events that integrate Kali365 device-code phishing and VoidProxy AiTM to capture credentials and sessions.
SpaceX cuts Grok Bot quotas after Musk praises it as fastest-growing product
SpaceX slashes Grok Bot usage limits weeks after Musk called it his fastest-growing product.
Musk throttles Grok Bot limits over unsustainably high costs
Some users saw weekly quotas jump to 100% over Halloween; Musk has not said how limits will change next.
SpaceX locks in $40B GPU financing deal with Apollo
An Apollo entity will buy Nvidia Vera Rubin chips and servers, then lease them to SpaceX for about five years.
Tesla leans on FSD subscriptions after ceding EV lead to BYD
Supervised Full Self-Driving has 1.7 million subscribers, but fully autonomous approval is still pending.
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SpaceX and Tesla form committees to discuss a merger
SpaceX reported $7.56 billion in Q3 AI-division revenue, mostly compute rental, while Tesla profits fell again.
SpaceX reports AI revenue growth and a return to profit
A cited filing put quarterly revenue at $14.6 billion, with 1.7 GW of neocloud compute and $19.6 billion in spending.
Anthropic plans equity-backed fund for workers as IPO nears
The fund would be a wholly owned LLC, and extra share grants stay at the board's discretion.
Silicon Valley is falling in line with Trump’s attempt to rename AI
Tech CEOs including Nadella, Huang, Musk, and Benioff adopt Trump’s “super intelligence” renaming of AI.
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Google thinks SpaceX’s Starship has to launch 1,600 times before space data centers get off the ground
Google launched a TPU into orbit on SpaceX to test Project Suncatcher's space data-center concept.
Satlyt, founded by a former Google and SpaceX product manager, raises $8M to run AI on satellites
Satlyt raised an $8 million seed round to run AI workloads on third-party satellites.
Google's Suncatcher project aims to put AI data centers in orbit powered by solar energy
Google will launch a refrigerator-size satellite on October 1 to test solar-powered AI computing in orbit.
Google is sending an AI satellite into space next week
Google will launch a TPU satellite on a SpaceX Falcon 9 on October 1 to test AI compute in orbit.
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Following OpenAI, Anthropic is also reportedly postponing its IPO
Anthropic reportedly delayed its IPO from October to November 2026, aiming for stronger Q3 results, with investors expecting a $2 trillion valuation.
Besxar is building an orbital semiconductor factory, one SpaceX rocket at a time
Besxar, founded by a former OpenAI staffer, raised ~$14M to prototype semiconductor manufacturing in orbit using SpaceX Falcon 9 booster flights.
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Nobody Is Saying Why OpenAI and Anthropic Had Outages Today
OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI chatbots suffered brief simultaneous outages; OpenAI cited a routing error and SpaceX a Memphis compute center outage.
[AINews] OpenAI shuts off Cursor
OpenAI cut off API access to coding tool Cursor after its SpaceX acquisition, citing contract violations by Elon Musk's companies.
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Threat Actors Abuse Cursor Agent AI to Assist Ransomware Operations
Aurora ransomware operators are using SpaceX-owned Cursor's AI agent to perform reconnaissance and exploitation tasks during intrusions.
Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX
OpenAI is winding down its contract supplying models to Cursor after Cursor's acquisition by SpaceX.