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SpaceX (SPCX) made its historic debut on Friday, opening at $150 per share. Investors' expectations for the stock were sky-high going into the start of trading. The company, which aims to put AI data centers in space, priced its shares at $135 each, raising about $75 billion and giving it an anticipated market capitalization of $1.77 trillion. On paper, CEO Elon Musk became the world's first trillionaire. Meanwhile, US stocks rose modestly as investors assessed reports that the US and Iran are closing in on an interim peace deal. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) and the S&P 500 (^GSPC)...

SpaceX IPO will create 4,400 new Millionaires, from engineers to Cafeteria workers. God bless Capitalism.

Iran will treat all of Elon Musk’s companies in the Middle East, including SpaceX’s Starlink internet service, as military targets as it retaliates against the U.S., Iranian state media outlet Fars reported Thursday. Iran is targeting “all interests related to economic holdings managed by Elon Musk in West Asia,” including a regional Starlink ground station, according to a translated post on Fars’ Telegram page. Starlink has played a key role in U.S. military operations against Iran, supporting high-tech ordnance ranging from aerial attack drones to unmanned surveillance and strike vessels. Iran asserts the U.S. has committed war crimes against it...

Alice Smith reposted Nina Wysocka @realninawysocka Elon Musk to Starmer: “Murderous migrants beheading innocent people in their hometown is what’s making people angry, not social media!”

Musk predicts AI will write machine code directly by year-end, a shift TSLA's autonomy roadmap and MSFT's $37B AI business are already built around. Anthropic reports Claude authored over 80% of its merged code by May 2026, with engineers merging 8x more code daily than in 2024. AI-related layoffs in 2026 have already surpassed all of 2025's total, with software engineers and tech workers cut first. SNIP

The wife of a federal judge who blocked President Donald Trump’s decision to shutter government websites that promoted gender ideology founded an organization that received funds from the United States Agency for International Development, an agency that the administration is currently targeting. U.S. District Judge John Bates issued a decision on Tuesday ordering federal health agencies to restore pages about transgenderism they had pulled after a Trump executive order about “gender ideology extremism.” ... “No backend remedy could ameliorate the inability to provide all required care during an appointment time to a patient who cannot return in the future,” Bates...

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has secured a massive infrastructure agreement with Google just days before its planned IPO, with the search giant agreeing to pay $920 million per month for AI computing capacity. CNBC reports that according to a regulatory filing, Google will utilize approximately 110,000 Nvidia graphics processing units along with central processors, memory, and additional components located within SpaceX data center facilities. The contract runs from October 2026 through June 2029 at the full monthly rate of nearly a billion dollars a month, with capacity scaling up through September at a discounted fee. A Google Cloud spokesperson communicated to...

This video (Episode 330 of Best in Tesla News) covers significant growth and developments for Tesla and SpaceX as of June 2026. Tesla Global Sales and Market Performance: Strong Global Growth: Tesla is seeing record-breaking sales in 2026. Specifically, in Germany, sales were up 322% in May, putting the company on track for a potential record year (1:24 - 3:12). Similar positive trends were reported in New Zealand, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Japan (3:12 - 5:47). Ford's Struggles: In contrast to Tesla, Ford is experiencing sales declines in the U.S. and has liquidated a major joint venture in China...

SpaceX has just announced that they have entered into a $920 million per month agreement with Google to provide compute capacity, according to a new filing. "On June 5, 2026, we entered into a Cloud Service Agreement with Google with respect to access to compute capacity. The customer has agreed to pay us $920 million per month from October 2026 through June 2029, with capacity ramping up through September at a reduced fee. The compute capacity provided includes approximately 110,000 NVIDIA GPUs, CPUs, memory, and other related components. After December 31, 2026, the agreement may be terminated by either party...

Why is Elon Musk so obsessed with what’s going on in Britain? The billionaire owner of Tesla and X has been busy posting on his social media platform about the murder of Henry Nowak and what it says about the state of British policing. What does Musk actually know about policing in this country? What the tech mogul definitely does know about is how to stir the pot. According to a report in the Financial Times, Musk has written more than 110 posts, retweets and replies about British politics since last Wednesday on X. This is almost three times the...

Starlink V3 satellites Bandwidth per Satellite: • V2: 96 Gbps • V3: 1,024 Gbps Bandwidth per Launch: V2: 2,600 Gbps V3: 61,000 Gbps Deployment per Launch: • V2: 27 satellites (on Falcon 9) • V3: 60 (on Starship) Starlink V3 satellites will begin to be deployed in late 2026 on Starship.Starlink V3 satellites Bandwidth per Satellite: • V2: 96 Gbps • V3: 1,024 Gbps Bandwidth per Launch: V2: 2,600 Gbps V3: 61,000 Gbps Deployment per Launch: • V2: 27 satellites (on Falcon 9) • V3: 60 (on Starship) Starlink V3 satellites will begin to be deployed in late 2026 on...

Elon Musk has stoked outrage on social media over the Henry Nowak case as police face backlash after arresting the dying 18-year-old amid bogus racism allegations from his Sikh killer. The tech billionaire, 54, has retweeted several posts which have criticised both Hampshire Police as well as the press for an alleged lack of coverage regarding Mr Nowak's murder on December 3, 2025. Earlier this week, Vickrum Digwa, 23, was found guilty of murder after stabbing the university student to death with an eight-inch ceremonial knife as he walked home from a night out in Southampton. During a trial at...

A new Texas law allows companies with SAE Level 4 or higher autonomous vehicles to offer commercial driverless transportation. Tesla wasted no time in self-certifying their vehicles. On the same day the law went into effect, Tesla officially self-certified their FSD software on their robotaxi vehicles as Level 4 compliant. For years, Tesla’s Autopilot and FSD software, even in Texas, has navigated the consumer market under the constraints imposed by a Level 2 driver-assist system. And while Tesla now operates in Texas as a level-4 system, this does not change the level-2 designation for consumer vehicles. Taking Responsibility While many...

@XFreeze SpaceX just became even more central to America’s next-generation defense architecture In one week, the U.S. Space Force awarded SpaceX $6.45 BILLION to build the future of space-based military sensing and communications That includes: • $4.16B for SB-AMTI: a space-based tracking system designed to detect and track aircraft, cruise missiles, drones, and other airborne threats from orbit, with initial capability projected by 2028 • $2.29B for the Space Data Network Backbone: a high-speed, low-latency military data network designed to connect sensors, weapons platforms, and warfighters globally Put simply: SpaceX is being asked to help build the sensing layer and...

Reform UK’s Nigel Farage has criticised Elon Musk over his support for Restore Britain, warning the tech billionaire will “split the right” in the Makerfield by-election. The Tesla boss posted a series of messages backing Restore Britain on his social media platform X. Labour’s Andy Burnham hopes to use the Makerfield contest to return to Westminster and potentially launch a bid to replace Sir Keir Starmer as Prime Minister. Reform’s Robert Kenyon came second in the seat in 2024 and an opinion poll suggested Mr Burnham has a lead of just three percentage points over him. But with Restore Britain’s...

Elon Musk has thrown his support behind Rupert Lowe’s new party after it pledged to ‘dismantle’ the establishment. The Tesla founder – who is based in the US – has been a fierce critic of the current Labour government, using his platform on X to attack its political record. In his latest intervention in British politics, Musk showed approval for the right-wing party Restore Britain.

This video from Black Conservative Perspective addresses recent viral claims that Elon Musk used Starlink satellites to interfere with or "steal" the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election on behalf of Donald Trump. Key takeaways: The Accusations: The host discusses claims made by Ashley St. Clair, a former political influencer and mother of one of Musk's children. She alleged in an interview that Musk spoke to her about releasing an "anomaly in the matrix" using space-based laser technology (satellites) shortly before the election (0:00-0:50, 5:44-6:35). The Left's Reaction: The creator argues that liberal commentators are using these unverified theories to cope with...

Elon Musk has revealed plans to float SpaceX in the US, paving the way for the largest stock market float in history set to make him a trillionaire. The rocket, satellite and AI firm filed its highly anticipated prospectus with US regulators on Wednesday, which revealed SpaceX had chosen Nasdaq to make its debut under the ticker SPCX. The filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission did not reveal the exact amount SpaceX was looking to raise. Reports suggest Musk is looking at raising about $75billion at a $1.75trillion valuation. That would put Musk on track to become the first...

Speaking virtually Monday at the Samson International Smart Mobility Summit in Tel Aviv, Musk said Neuralink’s work restoring speech, movement, and eventually vision amounts to “Jesus-level technologies.” The comments arrived alongside fresh timelines for Neuralink’s expansion, including a new prediction that the company could implant its vision-restoration device, Blindsight, into a human patient before the end of this year.For investors, this was more than another headline-grabbing Musk appearance. It was a reminder that one of the world’s richest men is trying to build an entirely new medical and computing industry at the same time the AI boom is reshaping capital...

After less than two hours of deliberations, a jury rejected Elon Musk’s claims against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, ending a dramatic chapter in the bitter rivalry between the two tech billionaires, who were once close friends. The court, led by U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, agreed with the advisory jury’s determination that Altman and OpenAI were not liable, and that “claims of breach of charitable trust and unjust enrichment are dismissed as untimely.” Addressing the judge, Musk’s lead counsel, Steven Molo, reserved his client’s right to appeal, though Gonzales Rogers said she’s prepared to dismiss an appeal “on the...