They both are privately held by the same owner! So, with whom are they talking? :-)

Oh good, orbital rockets and simulated child porn under the same roof. I hate this timeline.

Why would you pollute SpaceX’s valuation by coupling it with a toxic asset like xAi?

Tesla invests $2B in xAI, SpaceX merges with xAI. It's just blatant self-dealing all the way down to artificially prop up valuations.

Elon Musk in negotiation with himself.

What does the process look like, exactly?

Elon doing some financial engineering to engineer a 1T valuation for himself? :-D

MechaHitler now has space launch capabilities

I don’t understand the point of this stuff, Musk already has infinite money why does he need to play shenanigans with shuffling things between his various holdings?

> Last year, SpaceX agreed to invest $2 billion in xAI as part of the startup’s $5 billion equity fundraising, the Wall Street Journal reported at the time.

Sometimes you just need to get the founders in a room together to hash things out and magic can happen.

Are the talks just Elon with a sock puppet on each hand while Grok runs in the background doing the voices?

Sounds like schizophrenia.

He's really shuffling the X purchase debt around.

So, somehow, Twitter will end up being (partially) public again!

What are we doing here

This makes total sense his DC in Memphis will be his Houston. That DC will control all space flights and space robots.

This makes sense based on his recent talk about putting solar powered AI data centers in space. I was expecting this announcement soon and it makes perfect sense if that's the goal.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/bezos-and-musk-race-to-bring-data-c...

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/01/technology/space-data-cen...

> Reuters could not determine the value of the deal, its primary rationale, or its potential timing.

grifters gonna grift

Buying Twitter was a financially disastrous decision. It had reportedly lost at least 80% of its value [1]. The loans were secured against Tesla shares so there was the real risk of a margin call and a forced sell off.

And then along came xAI where a bunch of people gave Elon money and he "merged" Twitter and xAI, basically siphoning off billions of the investment funds ti bail himself out. If securities law had teeth, he probably should've gone to prison for this.

At the ssame time, why weer people giving this charlatan man-child billions to invest in AI?

The problem is they weren't buying AI. IMHO they were buying a seat at the table and an influence in the administration, a bit like the Saudi sovereign fund's "investment" in Jared Kushner.

Thing is, this isn't the first time he's done this. Elon used one of his companies (Tesla) to buy another of his companies (SolarCity) who was essentially insolvent but owed a lot of money to a third of Elon's companies (SpaceX). There was a lawsuit but it was dismissed. If you're sufficiently wealthy, the law basically doesn't apply to you [2].

I knew before even clicking on this that the justification would be orbital data centers (and it is). They make no sense becaus eof launch costs, cooling and cosmic rays and solar radiation.

Is this the continuation of the Twitter buyout shell game?

[1]: https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/02/business/elon-musk-twitter-x-...

[2]: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50695593

Will one real/valuable company (SpaceX) be enough to save all the other grift company (X, xAI, Tesla) valuations?

> Deal would support Musk's plan to put data centers in space

What a load of absolute horseshit. At what point do people start opening their eyes?

Elon in talks with Elon to save one of his broken companies

> would give fresh momentum to SpaceX’s effort to launch data centers into orbit as Musk battles for supremacy in the rapidly escalating AI race against tech giants like Google, Meta and OpenAI.

Still haven't seen a successful PoC datacenter in orbit. If you own the rockets, maybe get that done tomorrow? I do assume your investors will want one working before they dump even more cash into the idea. But what do I know.

Isn’t this just a ‘rich’ person version of floating a bad check to cover last weeks payday loan?

A lot of people are getting very irate over this, but I think this is more or less fine. Everyone in these companies know perfectly well they're just part of the Elon Musk extended universe. He hasn't behaved like they're separate companies for quite some time. Was it a financially wise move for xAI to buy twitter? Well, no, but everyone in twitter was quite happy they got a price that was the same as the inflated original purchase price, so that was quite clear, and everyone involved in xAI is the Elon train so they've got nothing to complain about and if you squint the rationale of training data and distribution kind of makes sense. With SpaceX again, it's a private company, if they want to go along with Elon Musk's non-economic moves because they want to be onboard the Elon train? Sure, why not, they've followed him this far and he genuinely has delivered an incredibly ambitious feat with SpaceX.

I think the only exception is Tesla where it's a public company and Musk has an obligation to the shareholders, but honestly, this seems like it would be SpaceX bailing out Tesla & xAI, not the other way around.

I guess what I'm saying is "Who is actually invested in any of these Elon Musk ventures who isn't happy to give Musk a blank cheque to operate however he wants?"

It’s a damn shame that SpaceX is being entangled with the absolute trash that is X and xAI.

So Elon talking to Elon?