TNB Tech Minute: SpaceX Acquires xAI
WSJ Tech News Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 3 February 2026
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:37.0 | Journal. |
| 0:45.3 | Elon Musk announced SpaceX has acquired X-AI. SpaceX confirmed the deal yesterday, posting a memo Musk sent out. Financial terms of the agreement weren't disclosed. People familiar with the |
| 0:51.1 | matter said the combined company is valued at $1.25 trillion. |
| 0:56.3 | An email viewed by the journal said shares in XAI will be converted into 0.1433 shares of SpaceX stock. |
| 1:04.8 | Employees will have the option to cash out and sell their XAI shares back to the company. |
| 1:10.3 | Combining SpaceX and XAIA-I is the latest example |
| 1:13.5 | of Musk bringing different parts of his business empire together. Last year, he merged XAI with X. |
| 1:20.7 | Speaking of X, French authorities raided the social media platform's Paris office. Cybercrime |
| 1:26.5 | prosecutor said today they were searching |
| 1:28.6 | X's office as part of an investigation opened early last year. The probe initially focused on |
| 1:34.8 | alleged bias in X's content algorithm, but has since expanded to examine the platform's |
| 1:40.7 | grok chatbot producing sexualized deep fake images. Prosecutors said they are also |
| 1:46.0 | investigating other potential charges against X, including dissemination of child pornography and |
| 1:52.1 | Holocaust denial, which is illegal in France. The raid came as French officials said they |
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