AI just hit its COVID shutdown moment

Tech Insider : Business, Travel
Photo collage featuring SpaceX Falcon 9 reusable rocket booster on display outside the company's facilities in Hawthorne, Open AI logo and NVIDIA stock price on May 20, 2026.

Samuel Boivin; Ethan Swope/Bloomberg via Getty Images; Alyssa Powell/BI

I happened to be on the toilet both times everything changed.

The first was March 11, 2020, the day America's eyes were opened to COVID.

The craziest part of SpaceX's IPO is also the most important

Tech Insider : Business, Technology
SpaceX Starship Flight 8 launches from Orbital Launch Pad A at Boca Chica beach on March 06, 2025 in Boca Chica Beach, Texas.
SpaceX Starship Flight 8 launches from Orbital Launch Pad A at Boca Chica beach on March 06, 2025 in Boca Chica Beach, Texas.

Brandon Bell/Getty Images

SpaceX bought Tesla Megapacks and $131 million worth of Cybertrucks, its IPO filing shows

Tech Insider : Business
A driver sits inside a Tesla Cybertruck near a SpaceX launch site.
SpaceX spent hundreds of millions of dollars on Tesla products in 2025.

SERGIO FLORES/AFP via Getty Images

We finally know how much Elon Musk's X is making in ad revenue — and how that's changed over time

Tech Insider : Business, Politics, Style
Elon Musk onstage at the World Economic Forum.
Elon Musk.

WEF

SpaceX strikes $60 billion deal for the right to buy coding startup Cursor

Tech Insider : Business
A composite image of Elon Musk speaking in front of a mic and Michael Truell speaking at an event wearing a wireless mic
Elon Musk's space company SpaceX is partnering with Cursor, a coding startup co-founded by Michael Truell.

Fabrice Coffrini and Big Event Media/Getty Images

Subscribe to space-x-ipo