Elon Musk Plans the Largest Merger in History

Three Musk companies are in play for a potential merger. Bloomberg reports SpaceX and Tesla could combine. Reuters says SpaceX and xAI (which already owns X) might merge ahead of a planned IPO, bringing Grok, X, Starlink, and rockets under one roof. Two shell companies just registered in Nevada, suggesting this is more than 2am speculation.

Space-based AI data centers. Musk says orbit offers unlimited solar energy and radiative cooling, where heat just radiates into the vacuum of space. Tesla's energy storage could power the infrastructure, while Starlink provides global reach. SpaceX is already valued at $800 billion, xAI at $230 billion. The combined IPO is targeting around $1.5 trillion. Whether any of this actually happens by mid-2026 is another story. Musk timelines are famously... optimistic.

DeepMind upgraded Gemini 3 Flash so it doesn't just glance at images anymore, it investigates them. The new "Think, Act, Observe" loop lets the model run Python code to zoom in, crop sections, and annotate what it sees before answering. Instead of guessing at blurry serial numbers or small text, it can now verify details step by step.

Yep. Google says this delivers a 5-10% quality boost across vision benchmarks. The model can now count objects reliably and catch details older versions would hallucinate. Future updates will auto-rotate images and cross-reference findings with web search. The line between chatbot and actual agent keeps getting blurrier.

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Challenge: Use AI to bring a historical figure to life using ChatGPT or Nano Banana for the portrait, then Sora 2 or Veo 3.1 for the video.

Steps:

🎁 Step 1: Choose your historical figure and write the persona. Then, ask your LLM for a physical description plus a 20 to 30 second answer bank: three short answers the figure would give to three modern questions.

🍪 Step 2: Generate a front facing portrait in ChatGPT Images or Nano Banana. Do 3 variants, pick one, then refine that exact one.

🎬 Step 3: Upload the portrait to Sora 2 or Veo 3.1. Prompt subtle motion only: blinking, tiny head turns, light breathing. Locked camera, no scene changes.

🎙️ Step 4: Interview it (pick one)

Option A: You ask, AI answers
Record yourself asking 3 quick questions. Upload that audio, then generate the figure’s responses in Sora 2 or Veo 3.1 with natural pauses and synced delivery.

Option B: AI does both voices, you write the questions
Write 3 questions yourself. Paste them into Sora 2 or Veo 3.1 and prompt two voices: interviewer is modern and neutral, the figure is period accurate. Keep it tight.

Will space be the final frontier for AI data centers, and will agentic vision be the latest AI buzzword? We want to hear your thoughts!