The reason so many people fear AI is that the only story they have been told about it is dystopian. If the only future you can imagine is Terminator, of course you'll be terrified.
The first space economy will not look like science fiction at all, it'll be something so new it'll be seen as alien!
If the price of a trip to orbit fell to the price of a great vacation, would you go? I most certainly would.
Only AI can keep up with AI. That's what will guide the entire security model of the next decade.
Peter: "I heard you say you might want a mini woolly mammoth. Is that true?"
Elon: "Yeah, I think it would be really cool to have a pet miniature woolly mammoth. That'd be pretty epic."
Peter: "I'll put a word in with you for you with with with Ben [Lamm]."
Elon: "That'd be adorable. Little things just running around trumpeting away and it's like look at the be a great little pet."
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Alibaba allegedly ran 28.8 million fraudulent API exchanges across 25,000 fake accounts to steal Claude's intelligence. If confirmed, it's the largest AI model theft ever attempted. The same week, the White House restricted GPT 5.6 to 20 companies, OpenAI delayed its IPO, and Neuralink announced it may attempt brain-to-brain telepathy this year.
-- GPT 5.6 launches in three tiers: Sol, Terra, Luna all throttled by the White House.
-- Chinese proxy services offer Western frontier models at 90% discount. The trade: your reasoning traces get harvested for distillation.
-- OpenAI won't IPO below $1 trillion. Revenue is at $40–50B annually but they're burning $26B.
-- Elon's endgame for Neuralink is I/O layer for the singularity, allowing humans to couple with AI directly.
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We're sending data centers to space because we live in a planet that cannot generate enough power fast enough to satiate the need.
Orbit can solve what Earth cannot.
The pessimists complaining about someone else's billions have probably never put a dollar of their own at the same risk.
A trillion sensor in space, in the air and on the ground will allow us to know anything, anywhere, at any time. There will be no hiding.. A good thing... Humans behave better when they’re being watched.
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Abundance isn’t just more compute and more energy. It’s more minds. More people free to invent, create, and solve. The ceiling on human genius has always been the size of the human population, and their access to tools and resources. As humanity moves into space we shatter all limitations.
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*Humanity's goal for the next century is... prevent WW3.*
Elon: "Okay, this is going to sound pretty crazy."
"I'd say the economy is 10 times the its current size in 10 years. Greater than. I feel like that's actually a fairly comfortable prediction."
"Obviously if there's like World War III or something. that that could put a kink in those plans or those expectations. In the absence of World War II, if current trends continue, I would say the the economy 10xes in 10 years and have a base on the moon."
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We are the first generation that can credibly plan to become a multi-planetary species, and possibly the last that gets to decide whether we will. No pressure.
I've known
@elonmusk for 26 years, and there's lots of noise about him becoming a trillionaire. If one thing defines him, it's that he's NOT driven by money, but instead by solving our world's toughest problems.
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The second you reach for the words “ban,” “stop,” or “eliminate” as your policy, you're on the wrong side of history.
Shape the technology toward the goal, don't try to outlaw the future.
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Pessimists sound smart.
Optimists build the world.
I've watched Elon build SpaceX from a rented warehouse in El Segundo to a $1.75 trillion valuation. Every expert said it was impossible — too expensive, too risky, government would never allow it. Today it prices for the largest IPO in history. Never bet against Elon! Some lessons cost real money to learn.
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SpaceX starts trading on Nasdaq tomorrow. Amazon 1997. Tesla 2010. SpaceX 2026. Looking back from 2040 — which IPO do you wish you'd held? I'll answer for myself: all of them. But SpaceX might be the only one that keeps humanity alive.
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ELON MUSK:
“We’re going to have universal high income.
We’ll basically just issue money to people."
"AI and robots are going to make so much stuff and provide so many services that they’ll run out of things to do for humans."
"Money will stop being relevant at some point in the future."
"AI won’t use human currency. It will care about power and mass: wattage and tonnage.”
ME:
“So just as you’re becoming a multi-trillionaire, money starts to have less value?”
ELON:
“Yeah, pretty much.”
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People ask me how I stay so optimistic. The honest answer: I read the data, not the headlines.