SpaceX’s AI business is beating expectations

SpaceX’s AI business is beating expectations

SpaceX’s data centers and Grok agents were more profitable than investors expected in the third quarter of the year, as the company leaves its roots as a space company behind to focus on artificial intelligence, which now makes up 52% of its income. CEO Elon Musk’s deep tech conglomerate reported $14.6 billion in third-quarter revenue…

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Japanese space tech startup Letara expands beyond satellite thrusters with $16M

Japan is pouring billions of dollars into its burgeoning space industry and easing restrictions on defense exports, efforts designed to build a homegrown aerospace sector filled with domestic startups that have a global reach. Letara, a Sapporo-based startup developing hybrid propulsion systems for spacecraft, is looking to capitalize on that push. After focusing on hybrid…

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Elon Musk repeatedly one-upped his execs on SpaceX’s first earnings call

Elon Musk repeatedly one-upped his execs on SpaceX’s first earnings call

Elon Musk spent SpaceX’s first earnings call making some out-of-this-world claims about the company’s business and future prospects, while his fellow executives kept trying to bring his ideas closer to Earth — providing a hint of what’s to come now that his rocket-launching, compute-leasing, satellite-based telecom is public. The conference call, held Tuesday, was the…

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