SpaceX to Pentagon: Pay Up
SpaceX alleges the Pentagon has been underpaying for Starlink services that power Russian‑controlled drones in Ukraine and U.S. LUCAS kamikaze drones in Iran, prompting the company to demand higher rates. Reuters reports the Pentagon is now weighing an additional purchase of more than 3,500 Starshield terminal subscriptions, a move that could add hundreds of millions of dollars in annual taxpayer spend. At the same time, SpaceX landed a $2.29 billion contract with the U.S. Space Force to build a globe‑spanning, high‑speed military data network. Elon Musk dismissed the report as false and blamed SpaceX for allowing military use of Starlink.
Musk’s Sweetheart Deal
Elon Musk settled the SEC’s lawsuit over his delayed Twitter‑stock disclosure by paying a $1.5 million fine, a penalty far smaller than the $150 million gain the SEC says he saved. At the same time, Meta faces a massive copyright suit alleging...
The Zuckerberg Rules
Meta faces a wave of adolescent‑addiction lawsuits alleging its platforms are designed to maximize teen screen time. In the Los Angeles bellwether case K.G.M. v. Meta, a jury awarded the plaintiff $6 million, finding Meta liable for emotional harm. Zuckerberg testified,...
The Humiliating Cross-Examination of Elon Musk
Elon Musk’s high‑stakes lawsuit against OpenAI opened in Oakland, where he seeks $134 billion in damages and a return to a nonprofit structure after contributing $38 million in its early days. His cross‑examination highlighted contradictory statements about Tesla’s AI ambitions and revealed...
An Oligarch’s Dystopian Scheme to Discredit Journalism with AI
A Peter Thiel‑backed startup, Objection AI, launched this month offering an AI‑driven "jury" that grades journalists with an "Honor Index" and arbitrates media disputes for a $2,000 fee. Founded by Aron D’Souza, the lawyer who led the Thiel‑funded Gawker lawsuit, the service blends...
Big Tech’s Prescription: One Chatbot, Taken Daily
Big tech firms are launching AI chatbots that promise medical advice as U.S. healthcare costs rise and insurance coverage falls. Elon Musk’s Grok, OpenAI’s ChatGPT Health, Amazon’s Health AI agent, and Meta’s Muse Spark all market diagnostic and wellness services,...
SpaceX Engine Explodes as Musk Targets $2 Trillion IPO
SpaceX suffered an engine fire during a Starship test in McGregor, Texas, just days after Elon Musk announced the test flight would be delayed to early‑mid May 2026. The company still targets an initial public offering with a $2 trillion valuation,...
Are Musk and Bezos Turning the Sky Into a Landfill?
Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin have jointly filed to launch roughly 1.1 million satellites, dwarfing today’s constellations and aiming to create orbital AI data centers. A recent German‑British study detected a ten‑fold lithium spike 60 miles up after a...
The Billionaires Who Think Humanity Is Just a Warm-Up Act
A handful of tech billionaires—including Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Peter Thiel and Larry Page—are openly framing humanity as a temporary, biological stepping‑stone for a future dominated by artificial superintelligence. Musk has repeatedly called humans a "biological bootloader" and announced that...
Trump Cheers Oligarch Takeover of CNN
President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth publicly backed the Ellison family’s bid to acquire CNN as part of Paramount‑Skydance’s $110 billion purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery, while the DOJ antitrust division reviews the deal. Meanwhile, xAI faces a class‑action lawsuit alleging...