{"id":230561,"date":"2026-02-05T05:20:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T11:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/exclusive-musks-spacex-in-merger-talks-with-xai-ahead-of-planned-ipo-source-says"},"modified":"2026-02-05T05:20:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T11:20:40","slug":"exclusive-musks-spacex-in-merger-talks-with-xai-ahead-of-planned-ipo-source-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/exclusive-musks-spacex-in-merger-talks-with-xai-ahead-of-planned-ipo-source-says","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: Musk\u2019s SpaceX in merger talks with xAI ahead of planned IPO, source says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/exclusive-musks-spacex-in-merger-talks-with-xai-ahead-of-planned-ipo-source-says2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The merger would bring Musk\u2019s rockets, Starlink satellites, the X social media platform and Grok AI chatbot under one roof and could boost his efforts to launch data centers into orbit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The merger would bring Musk\u2019s rockets, Starlink satellites, the X social media platform and Grok AI chatbot under one roof and could boost his efforts to launch data centers into orbit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,6,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-robotics-ai","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}