The AI Race Just Got a SpaceX-Sized Twist
SpaceX is acquiring XAI in a $1.25 trillion merger, positioning orbital data centers as the future of AI compute, while OpenAI launches the Codex app, a GUI-based agent orchestration tool that signals a shift from coding assistants to full-scale AI work orchestration.
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