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The Watchdogs Are Barking Themselves Hoarse (Atlantic, The)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Mon, 08/10/2026 - 10:19AI companies are stripping universities of their best researchers. (Atlantic, The)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 07/23/2026 - 06:17Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster (Atlantic, The)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 07/15/2026 - 10:45The End of Reading is Here (Atlantic, The)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 07/10/2026 - 06:20The Myth of SpaceX
SpaceX had its initial public offering. Elon Musk is a trillionaire on paper. But what is SpaceX? On one level, of course, SpaceX is a company that builds rockets and spacecraft and launches them into space. (Occasionally the rockets explode.) It is also the company that birthed Starlink, a satellite-internet business that generated more than $11 billion in revenue last year. But the company can be defined in many ways. SpaceX is a financial instrument for Musk.