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SpaceX sends 4 astronauts to the International Space Station on a record-fast 8-hour trip

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Amanda Gerut

Investors thought they were buying pre-IPO OpenAI and SpaceX shares. Their cash went to strip clubs, Bloomingdale’s, and shopping on Amazon, SEC alleges

/2026/09/30/openai-spacex-private-fund-advisers-charged/

‘We’re being extremely cautious here’: Starship reaches orbit for first time, but SpaceX cut its planned 10-hour trip after 3 hours

/2026/09/28/spacex-starship-orbit-space-10-hour-three-launch/

Preston Fore

Elon Musk says money might ‘not even matter’ in the future—but tells Gen Z to study arts, sciences, and engineering to know what to ask AI and robots

/2026/09/28/elon-musk-money-wont-matter-gen-z-education-advice-study-arts-sciences-engineering-promot-humanoid-robots-billioniare-tesla-spacex-ceo/

Allie Garfinkle

Your 401(k) is funding the AI boom. Here’s what that means for your retirement

/2026/09/28/how-ai-stock-market-concentration-could-put-401k-retirement-savings-at-risk/

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Jacqueline Munis

'Don't look at the résumé': Elon Musk admits he's 'fallen prey' to flashy credentials and says conversation matters most when hiring

https://fortune.com/article/elon-musk-hiring-advice-spacex-resume-micromanagement/?itm_source=parsely-api

Joshua Hong

Everything’s bigger in Texas: Musk’s planned $16.8 billion chip factory is five times bigger than the world’s current largest building

https://fortune.com/2026/08/10/elon-musk-chip-factory-spacex-tesla-texas/?itm_source=parsely-api

https://fortune.com/2026/09/28/how-ai-stock-market-concentration-could-put-401k-retirement-savings-at-risk/?itm_source=parsely-api

As SpaceX goes public, a $100 billion shadow market faces a reckoning

https://fortune.com/2026/06/11/as-spacex-goes-public-a-100-billion-shadow-market-faces-a-reckoning/?itm_source=parsely-api

Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez

Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, says he’s living in an Airstream trailer to oversee xAI’s biggest expansion yet

https://fortune.com/2026/09/15/elon-musk-airstream-trailer-memphis-xai-colossus-data-center-sleeping-factory-floor-twitter-tesla-production-hell/?itm_source=parsely-api

Jack Kubinec

SpaceX’s $1.4 billion Bitcoin hoard is a strategic reserve—and an accounting headache

https://fortune.com/2026/06/01/spacexs-1-4-billion-bitcoin-hoard-is-a-strategic-reserve-for-its-cash-and-an-accounting-headache/?itm_source=parsely-api

‘Pure insanity’—Elon Musk details SpaceX’s plan to turn the moon into its newest manufacturing site

https://fortune.com/2026/08/06/pure-insanityelon-musk-details-spacexs-plan-to-turn-the-moon-into-its-newest-manufacturing-site/?itm_source=parsely-api

From OpenAI's GPT-5.6 rollout to Illinois’ landmark AI safety law, backlash around Meta Ray-Bans, and whether China is moving to restrict access to its best models, Fortune AI Editor Jeremy Kahn and AI Reporter Bea Nolan unpack some of the biggest developments shaping artificial intelligence this week.

Why Meta's Ray-Bans Sparked a Huge Privacy Debate | Fortune AI Weekly

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A hidden market for shares of the world's hottest private companies has quietly grown to an estimated $112 billion, and most of it happens off the books. As SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic edge toward going public, the investors who poured billions into pre-IPO shares may not actually know what they own. Larry Aschebrook founded G Squared in 2011, when trading secondaries made you a "bottom feeder" who got cease-and-desist letters. Today the firm manages north of $8 billion and holds stakes in SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic. Fortune's Allie Garfinkle sits down with Larry to talk about the shadow market behind the biggest names in tech, why layered SPVs could leave investors with nothing, and the reckoning he sees coming when these companies finally go public.

The Investor Who Bet on SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic Before You Could | Term Sheet

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Everyone is racing to put satellites in orbit. Far fewer are building what it takes to make them useful. As constellations scale and data volumes surge, the bottleneck is shifting to the ground. Without the infrastructure to move that data, it goes nowhere. Bridgit Mendler left entertainment, earned degrees from MIT and Harvard, and bet everything on one of the least visible and most critical problems in space. What does it take to build the layer everything else depends on?

Bridgit Mendler, Co-Founder and CEO, Northwood 
Alyson Shontell, Editor-in-Chief and Chief Content Officer, Fortune

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The AI arms race runs on electricity, and right now, America does not have enough of it. As global conflicts reshape energy supply chains and the grid strains under unprecedented demand, a new generation of founders is doing what Washington has struggled to: actually build. Zach Dell is hardening the grid after watching Texas go dark. Doug Bernauer left SpaceX to mass-produce nuclear microreactors. They discuss how energy independence is no longer just an infrastructure problem, but a national security imperative.

Zach Dell, Co-Founder and CEO, Base Power Company
Tori Shivanandan, President, Radiant Industries
Allie Garfinkle, Senior Writer, Fortune 

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