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Odaily News: SpaceX has grand plans for Starship. If all goes according to plan, this 407-foot-tall rocket will one day be used to build an orbital AI data center network and send humans to the Moon and Mars. But first, the company plans to use Starship to send a new, improved money-making machine into space—Starlink satellites.SpaceX plans to send its first batch of V3 satellites into orbit during a critical Starship test flight mission as early as next week. Getting Starship to operate as envisioned is crucial for SpaceX and its shareholders. The company needs Starship not only to revitalize its own Starlink communications network—which contributed nearly 55% of the company's revenue in the second quarter—but also to launch satellites for a range of commercial purposes. Then perhaps its most lucrative mission: sending a futuristic orbital data center into space, which SpaceX says could help tap into a total addressable AI market worth $26.5 trillion. (Bloomberg)
According to Odaily, SpaceX's stock price has recently been fluctuating within a narrow range, but a new wave of buying may arrive soon as the Nasdaq 100 Index undergoes its quarterly rebalancing later this month. Due to lock-up restrictions, SpaceX has a relatively low proportion of freely floating shares, which currently gives it a weight of only 1.25% in the Nasdaq 100 Index, ranking 19th. Despite its market capitalization exceeding $2 trillion, placing it sixth among the index's constituents.Following the next index rebalancing, SpaceX's weight is expected to increase. The adjustments will be announced after the market close on Friday and take effect on September 21. This is partly because more than 1 billion shares have already been unlocked, raising SpaceX's free-float shares from less than 10% of total shares outstanding shortly after the IPO to nearly 30%.According to a report released Tuesday by J.P. Morgan Securities strategists including Min Moon, SpaceX's weight could rise to 1.51% after the rebalancing, which would trigger approximately $12.4 billion in passive net buying of SpaceX shares by index funds and ETFs. Nasdaq data shows that as of the end of the second quarter, approximately $1.7 trillion in assets were tracking the Nasdaq 100 Index, including the Invesco QQQ Trust Series 1 exchange-traded fund, widely known by its ticker QQQ.
Odaily News: SpaceX is advancing its lunar industrialization strategy, planning to build automated factories driven by humanoid robots on the Moon in the future, aiming to explore new models for space manufacturing and lunar resource utilization.It is reported that SpaceX envisions deploying humanoid robots to handle tasks such as infrastructure construction, equipment maintenance, and resource processing on the lunar surface, reducing reliance on long-term human astronaut presence and establishing sustainable production capabilities for future deep-space exploration.This plan aligns with SpaceX's long-standing vision of a space economy. The company aims to lower the cost of accessing space through reusable rockets and gradually build space infrastructure encompassing lunar bases, resource development, and interplanetary transportation.Industry insiders believe that the Moon's low-gravity environment and abundant mineral resources make it a key candidate for future space manufacturing. Utilizing robots for remote or autonomous operations is regarded as a critical technological direction to reduce lunar development costs and improve mission efficiency.Currently, SpaceX has not disclosed a specific timeline, investment scale, or robot deployment details for the lunar factory project, and the related plans remain in the long-term technological exploration phase.
: Yesterday, Dark Side of the Moon (Moonshot AI) released its latest open-source AI model, Kimi K3. It ranked first on the Frontend Code Arena test website with a score of 1,679, surpassing the Claude Fable 5 model. Following an evaluation of the K3 model by Artifacial Analysis, Elon Musk once again praised the Kimi model from Dark Side of the Moon, stating that the K3 model's benchmark performance is impressive.In March of this year, when Kimi published the research paper "Attention Residuals: Rethinking the Aggregation of Depth Direction," it received praise from Musk, who said, "Kimi's research work is impressive." Previously, he also stated that the Zhipu GLM model could surpass the Claude Mythos model (i.e., Fable 5) by Q1 2027. In response, Zhipu founder Tang Jie replied, "It won't take that long."
the 0G Chinese community has officially announced the launch of the "0G AI Alliance Carnival" campaign, collaborating with multiple AI ecosystem projects to drive the expansion of the 0G ecosystem through online tasks, community activities, and offline exposure.Participating projects in this campaign include: AI prediction market NeoSoulAI, AI Agent infrastructure Ghast AI, AI Meme Agent project moonfun_ai, privacy verification protocol Primus Labs, and AI Agent economy platform gm.town. Rewards for the campaign include NeoSoul tokens, Moon Points, SBTs, and early access invitation codes.0G stated that more ecosystem projects will join in the future. This campaign is supported in terms of marketing by the 0G ecosystem project lighthouse_2026.
According to ZDNet, the South Korean government plans to impose taxes on virtual assets starting in January next year, but faces opposition from the opposition party, increasing policy uncertainty. Moon Kyung-ho, head of the Income Tax Division at the Ministry of Economy and Finance, made the government’s first official statement on the matter during a National Assembly discussion, affirming that taxation on virtual assets will proceed as scheduled beginning January 1, next year, emphasizing that “income must be taxed.” Under the current amendment to the Income Tax Act, gains exceeding 2.5 million KRW from the transfer or lending of virtual assets are subject to a 22% tax rate. However, the opposition People Power Party argues that taxing only virtual assets—while abolishing the financial investment income tax—is unfair, and is advancing a bill to abolish the virtual asset income tax. This bill has already been submitted to the National Assembly’s Committee on Strategy and Finance and will be discussed by its Tax Subcommittee. Analysts believe that, ahead of next year’s local elections, the ruling party may join discussions on delaying or scrapping the tax to win support from younger voters.