The Orbital Data Center Hype Machine Is Already in Orbit
The Orbital Data Center Hype Machine Is Already in Orbit

“The lowest-cost place to put AI will be in space, and that will be true within two years, maybe three at the latest,” SpaceX founder Elon Musk told the World Economic Forum in Davos this past January, as his company was preparing to go public.Later t…

Tesla poaches 17-year Intel veteran to lead its ‘Terafab’ chip plant
Tesla poaches 17-year Intel veteran to lead its ‘Terafab’ chip plant

Tesla has hired a 17-year Intel manufacturing veteran to serve as “Director, Terafab,” the first named leadership hire tied to the automaker’s ambitious Austin chip fab project.
The executive, who started at Tesla this month, most recently ran tool ins…

Meet the lawyer who beat Elon Musk — twice
Meet the lawyer who beat Elon Musk — twice

Watching Elon Musk fulminate at Bill Savitt during Musk v. Altman – the case in which Musk sued Sam Altman and OpenAI instead of seeing a therapist about his AI failures – was a bit like watching a toddler have a temper tantrum at his nursery school teacher. Savitt’s questions were “designed to trick me,” […]

Tesla has a battery theft problem

A WIRED investigation reveals organised gangs repeatedly stole Tesla battery shipments from its Nevada factory, prompting tighter security and raising concerns over supply chain vulnerabilities.

Survey Sunday: with nearly a trillion dollars, will Elon try to make things right?
Survey Sunday: with nearly a trillion dollars, will Elon try to make things right?

Last week, we asked Electrek readers a simple whether they believed that Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, after becoming the world’s first trillionaire, would finally make good on the ambitious promises he spent years making about accelerating sustainab…

Elon Musk’ Starlink could soon offer mobile services as a US carrier

SpaceX may be preparing its boldest Starlink expansion yet. Instead of just supporting mobile carriers, it could soon become one, and that could shake up the entire wireless industry.

Elon suffers another day short of trillionaire status

Right now he’s merely a several-hundred-billionaire, according to Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index.

Valor Equity Partners looks to raise a $2.5B Fund VII, per Bloomberg

New details have emerged about Valor’s latest fund, which last year announced it was raising an unspecified amount of capital.

Elon Musk and the plot to hijack America’s broadband
Elon Musk and the plot to hijack America’s broadband

At 9PM ET on the night of May 28th, a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket sat on the launchpad at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The craft was in the middle of a hot-fire test awaiting the arrival of Amazon Leo satellites, the first of 24 batches to be shuttled into low Earth orbit […]