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Elon Musk has spent the past few days doing what he does best, bending markets, politics, and online discourse around his latest moves. MarketWatch reports that SpaceX is now circling a staggering eight hundred billion dollar valuation in a new secondary share sale, roughly doubling where it stood earlier this year, even as Musk publicly insists on X that the company is not “raising money at eight hundred B” and is merely running twice‑yearly stock buybacks to give employees and investors liquidity. According to that same Dow Jones and Wall Street Journal linked reporting, he is pushing a narrative that SpaceX’s value will be driven not just by rockets and Starlink’s eight million plus broadband subscribers, but by a more under‑the‑radar bet on space‑based data centers to power the energy‑hungry AI boom, a concept he hinted at in replies to investor Cathie Wood as the “most significant by far” driver of future valuation.
SatNews and MarketWatch both highlight Musk’s claim that NASA will account for less than five percent of SpaceX revenue next year, with commercial Starlink firmly in the lead, and note his aggressive push into direct‑to‑cell service, backed by a nearly twenty billion dollar spectrum deal with EchoStar and a potential Starlink Mobile brand that could eventually compete with terrestrial carriers. These moves, if they play out as described, are the kind of strategic pivots biographers will mark as the moment SpaceX morphed from launch company into infrastructure backbone for global connectivity and AI.
On the political and regulatory front, Politico recently detailed Musk’s virtual appearance at a DOGE reunion in Texas, where he predicted a “great twelve‑year span” of Republican dominance under Donald Trump and JD Vance, a rare glimpse into his long‑range political expectations. In Europe, outlets from Mirror Now to Pluralistic report that Brussels has fined X roughly one hundred twenty to one hundred forty million dollars under the Digital Services Act over its blue‑check practices, prompting Musk to erupt on X and even call for the European Union to be “abolished,” rhetoric EU officials dismissed as provocative grandstanding but that underscores his escalating war with regulators.
Social‑media‑wise, X‑tracker data shows Musk is still posting at a blistering pace, often using the platform to swat down SpaceX valuation rumors in real time and to amplify his free‑speech battles with the EU. Some YouTube channels are packaging ominous “December warnings” in his name, but those highly dramatized videos openly blend facts, rumors, and fiction and should be treated as speculative entertainment, not verified biography.
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Elon Musk has spent the past few days doing what he does best, bending markets, politics, and online discourse around his latest moves. MarketWatch reports that SpaceX is now circling a staggering eight hundred billion dollar valuation in a new secondary share sale, roughly doubling where it stood earlier this year, even as Musk publicly insists on X that the company is not “raising money at eight hundred B” and is merely running twice‑yearly stock buybacks to give employees and investors liquidity. According to that same Dow Jones and Wall Street Journal linked reporting, he is pushing a narrative that SpaceX’s value will be driven not just by rockets and Starlink’s eight million plus broadband subscribers, but by a more under‑the‑radar bet on space‑based data centers to power the energy‑hungry AI boom, a concept he hinted at in replies to investor Cathie Wood as the “most significant by far” driver of future valuation.
SatNews and MarketWatch both highlight Musk’s claim that NASA will account for less than five percent of SpaceX revenue next year, with commercial Starlink firmly in the lead, and note his aggressive push into direct‑to‑cell service, backed by a nearly twenty billion dollar spectrum deal with EchoStar and a potential Starlink Mobile brand that could eventually compete with terrestrial carriers. These moves, if they play out as described, are the kind of strategic pivots biographers will mark as the moment SpaceX morphed from launch company into infrastructure backbone for global connectivity and AI.
On the political and regulatory front, Politico recently detailed Musk’s virtual appearance at a DOGE reunion in Texas, where he predicted a “great twelve‑year span” of Republican dominance under Donald Trump and JD Vance, a rare glimpse into his long‑range political expectations. In Europe, outlets from Mirror Now to Pluralistic report that Brussels has fined X roughly one hundred twenty to one hundred forty million dollars under the Digital Services Act over its blue‑check practices, prompting Musk to erupt on X and even call for the European Union to be “abolished,” rhetoric EU officials dismissed as provocative grandstanding but that underscores his escalating war with regulators.
Social‑media‑wise, X‑tracker data shows Musk is still posting at a blistering pace, often using the platform to swat down SpaceX valuation rumors in real time and to amplify his free‑speech battles with the EU. Some YouTube channels are packaging ominous “December warnings” in his name, but those highly dramatized videos openly blend facts, rumors, and fiction and should be treated as speculative entertainment, not verified biography.
Thank you for listening. Be sure to subscribe so you never miss an update on Elon Musk, and search the term Biography Flash for more great biographies.
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This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI
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