SpaceX plans a $55 billion Terafab AI chip plant in Austin, Texas, with potential expansion to $119 billion. The project aims to support massive computing power for AI, robotics, and space data centers.
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The Ninth Circuit has affirmed an order that keeps a lawsuit by eight former SpaceX employees in court. The ruling applies a 2021 federal law on sexual harassment disputes and does not decide whether the company harassed or wrongfully fired anyone.
SpaceX has said it plans to invest more than $74 billion in supercomputing campuses at Starbase in Texas and in Cochise County, Arizona. The Arizona campus still needs county approval, and the Texas site would generate its own power.
Anthropic launched Claude for Manufacturing on November 12, a plugin with 17 skills and connectors to Autodesk Fusion, Infor, Microsoft 365, and Oracle NetSuite. A person reviews the draft before it goes to a customer or a supplier. It does not run factory equipment.
The FCC has accepted for filing applications to transfer control of 546 paired 800 MHz licenses to a SpaceX subsidiary. The November 10 notice is not a grant.
SpaceX is targeting Friday, November 13 for Starship Flight 15, according to SpaceX vice president of launch Kiko Dontchev. The company plans to attempt its first ship catch on that flight; the date is a target, not a guarantee, and SpaceX has not posted a mission page or FAA Flight 15 license listing yet.
