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Elon Might Just Merge All His Companies Into One

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🗓️ 30 January 2026

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Apple does a big acquisition. OpenAI is racing to IPO. Elon might just merge all his companies into one. Google’s Project Genie is the latest thing that will make you say, gee, AI can do that?! And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions. Apple buys Israeli start-up Q.AI for close to $2bn in race to build AI devices (FT) OpenAI Plans Fourth-Quarter IPO in Race to Beat Anthropic to Market (WSJ) SpaceX in merger talks with other Musk companies ahead of IPO (Reuters) Elon Musk’s SpaceX Said to Consider Merger With Tesla or xAI (Bloomberg) Google’s AI helped me make bad Nintendo knockoffs (The Verge) Moltbot Gets Another New Name, OpenClaw, And Triggers Security Fears And Scams (Forbes) Weekend Longread: To avoid accusations of AI cheating, college students are turning to AI (NBCNews) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Apple, oh, and I hope.

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Welcome to the TechBrew, right home for Friday, January 30th, 2026. I'm Brian McCullough today. Apple does a big acquisition. Open AI is racing the IPO. Elon might just merge all his companies into one. Google's Project Genie is the latest thing that will make you say, gee, AI can do that. And of course, the weekend long-grade suggestions. Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

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1:49.2

Man, a bunch of news came in yesterday afternoon.

1:52.2

It was one thing after another where I was like, oh, I'll lead the show with that, I'll

1:55.8

lead the show with that.

1:57.4

Let's start with Apple, who had earnings, which were fine.

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