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On 2 Feb 2026, Elon Musk folded his cash-hungry AI startup xAI into SpaceX via an all-stock deal, welding the two private giants into a single entity valued at roughly $1.25 trillion before a planned public listing later this year.
Apple quietly shut down its standalone AI health-coach project this week and will instead drip-feed its features into the iOS Health app over the next year.
On 3 Feb 2026, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said Spain will table legislation next week banning under-16s from social networks and criminalising platform executives who ignore illegal content, drawing an immediate rebuke from Elon Musk.
Elon Musk folded debt-laden xAI into SpaceX in an all-stock transaction completed 3 Feb 2026, positioning the enlarged group for a record IPO later this year.
A spike in liquid-hydrogen leakage during the 2 Feb 2026 wet-dress rehearsal forced NASA to abandon the test at T-5:15 and slip the first crewed lunar mission since 1972 out of its February window to no earlier than March.
On 4 Feb 2026, Nintendo’s Tokyo-listed shares sank about 10-11 % when Q3 earnings undershot forecasts and management gave no upgrade to Switch 2 sales guidance amid rising memory chip prices and a thin software slate.
Elon Musk folded his AI firm xAI into SpaceX in an all-stock deal, positioning the $1 trillion rocket company to build solar-powered AI data-centre constellations and seek a public listing later in 2026.
Beijing’s new national safety standard requires every passenger vehicle sold after 1 Jan 2027 to replace flush, power-actuated door handles with interior and exterior mechanical releases, giving already-approved models a grace period until 1 Jan 2029.
On 3 Feb 2026, momentum leapt from Australia’s December 2025 under-16 social-media blackout to Europe as Spain unveiled a matching bill and Greece signalled an imminent under-15 restriction, marking the first multinational cascade of such laws.
On 3 Feb 2026 Elon Musk folded his AI startup xAI into SpaceX, setting up a single private firm worth roughly $1.25 trillion and tasking it with deploying solar-powered data-centre constellations in orbit ahead of an anticipated IPO this year.
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