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1. SpaceX is in talks with the Defense Department about providing the agency with access to data-center capacity for running AI models.

They’re discussing an arrangement in which Elon Musk’s company would provide computing capacity at a cost of up to several billion dollars, people familiar with the matter said. SpaceX signed similar deals with Anthropic and Google in recent months and is planning to greatly expand its cloud-computing efforts, people familiar with those plans said. The Pentagon relies on SpaceX for launching rockets and managing satellites for communications and missile tracking.

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