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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told Yahoo Finance at GTC Berlin that the company's AI accelerators can stay productive for eight years or more, far outlasting the traditional four-year GPU lifecycle. He said lending against Nvidia hardware carries 'the lowest' risk of any asset because the chips hold strong resale and reuse value across different customers and workloads.
Ukraine has depended heavily on SpaceX's Starlink for civilian communications and military drone operations throughout the war with Russia, with the US and European allies funding terminals and subscriptions. Recent unexplained service disruptions, reportedly tied to Elon Musk's political stances, have pushed Ukraine and European partners to examine alternatives to the network. A BlueBird Tech hardware engineer told Ars that Starlink remains unmatched in cost, availability and ease of use, though access to the US military-grade Starshield variant has also been extended to Ukraine's defense sector.
Elon Musk told Tesla shareholders he had already said all he would on a possible SpaceX-Tesla merger, and Tesla's investor relations chief said executives would not address the topic. This follows Musk's comments a day earlier on SpaceX's earnings call, where he said both companies had formed special committees to explore a deal and that he personally favored it. Tesla's own results showed declining auto and energy revenue, with Tesla shares down 3% and SpaceX down 9% the day after Musk's remarks.
Elon Musk has said he will give every child in America a stake in SpaceX next year, a giveaway involving roughly 72 million shares worth about $10.5 billion at current prices. Divided among the country's children, that works out to roughly $146 per child. The pledge comes amid a broader trend of large philanthropic promises from Silicon Valley's wealthiest tech figures.
SpaceX disclosed in a quarterly SEC filing that its ownership stake in Elon Musk's Boring Co. generated a $561 million investment gain in the third quarter, making up more than half of SpaceX's other income for the period. The gain helped push SpaceX's net income to just over $4 billion. The filing also showed SpaceX spent $151 million on Tesla Megapack energy storage systems during the quarter.
President Trump spoke with Elon Musk about lifting speed caps currently placed on Starlink satellite internet service used in Ukraine, according to a report. The conversation touched on Ukraine's reliance on the Starlink network, which has faced restrictions affecting connection speeds for users there.
Elon Musk has reportedly put $1 billion into Warner Bros. Discovery, the parent company of HBO, which is slated to air a documentary about him directed by Alex Gibney. Gibney has said he was assured the film would air on HBO despite the subject matter.
Elon Musk has committed about $366 million to the 2026 election cycle across more than 40 races, with at least $276 million flowing to Republican groups and his America PAC since July, according to CNBC's analysis of FEC filings. Meanwhile SpaceX has secured $6.78 billion in federal contracts through October 1, nearly double its 2024 total, per research firm FedScout, as Tesla, SpaceX and Musk's AI ventures face pending government decisions on defense spending, launch licenses, spectrum, autonomous vehicles and data centers.
Elon Musk has put roughly $1 billion into Skydance, the newly merged media company, according to a Semafor report. The investment followed Paramount's $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery and came alongside equity contributions from other investors, including board member Laurene Powell Jobs. Skydance, led by co-CEOs David Ellison and Ynon Kreiz, has pledged to cut $6 billion in costs over three years.
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Ukrainian officials say SpaceX abruptly throttled speeds on its Starshield service, disrupting internet connectivity for drones and aircraft moving faster than 100 mph. A senior Ukrainian commander told The New York Times the restrictions cost his unit over $1 million and delayed missions by three days, while reports differ on whether Elon Musk or the Trump administration ordered the change.
On Tesla's Wednesday earnings call, Elon Musk said the company is 'aiming for' 5 million vehicle deliveries annually by around 2030, calling it achievable. Tesla's deliveries have actually declined recently, from a 2023 peak of 1.81 million to 1.64 million in 2025.