Elon shot: will Musk’s mega-merger work?

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The Intelligence from The Economist

2026-02-06

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This week Elon Musk announced the merger of two of his companies: SpaceX and xAI, which makes chatbots. Is the new firm viable? As migrant workers return home for lunar new year, the Chinese Communist Party tells migrant workers not to stay for too long. And our culture editor’s hot take on “Heated Rivalry”. Listen to what matters most, from global politics and business to science and technology—Subscribe to Economist Podcasts+ For more information about how to access Economist Podcasts+, please visit our FAQs page or watch our video explaining how to link your account.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  • The Economist.

  • Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.

  • I'm Jason Palmer.

  • And I'm Rosie Blau.

  • Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

  • Each year hundreds of millions of Chinese workers return to their hometowns for Lunar New Year.

  • This year the government issued an unusual warning, telling people not to stay at home for long.

  • We ask what's changed that has the government so spooked.

  • And what should you watch this weekend?

  • I thought our culture editor was very refined until she recommended this extremely steamy TV show.

  • Stay tuned for what you should view and what you shouldn't.

  • And I've been asked to warn you, it gets a bit explicit.

  • But first.

  • Sprawling conglomerates had rather fallen out of fashion in America.

  • Then along came Elon Musk.

  • One of the things we'll be doing with SpaceX within a few years is launching solar-powered AI satellites.

  • At Davos last month his ambitions, as ever, were clearly of a planetary scale.

  • Space is really the source of immense power.

  • And then you don't need to take up any room on Earth.

  • There's so much room in space.