Subj : SpaceX merger 🚀, OpenAI races Anthropic IPO 💰, AI replacing SaaS 👨‍💻 To : All From : TLDR Date : Fri Jan 30 2026 11:23 am --HEQT47yB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable SpaceX may potentially merge with Tesla and xAI. 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SpaceX is considering a= n IPO in June around Elon Musk's birthday.=20 OPENAI PLANS FOURTH-QUA= RTER IPO IN RACE TO BEAT ANTHROPIC TO MARKET (3 MINUTE READ) [6]=20 O= penAI is holding informal talks with Wall Street banks about a potential = initial public offering in the fourth quarter of this year. 2026 is expec= ted to be a blockbuster year for stock market debuts after a drought. Som= e on Wall Street are speculating that this year could be the biggest year= ever for IPOs. OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceX are among the most closely = watched tech companies that could go public.=20 =F0=9F=9A=80=20 SCI= ENCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY CUSTOM MACHINE KEPT MAN ALIVE WITHOUT LU= NGS FOR 48 HOURS (6 MINUTE READ) [7]=20 An artificial lung system bui= lt by a team at Northwestern University successfully kept a critically il= l patient alive long enough to enable a double lung transplant. 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However, major companies r= ight now have too much to lose and too little to gain to bother competing= ..=20 =F0=9F=92=BB=20 PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE THE FUT= URE OF 10X ENGINEERING (2 MINUTE READ) [9]=20 Generative AI will make e= ngineers better. While it may make the gap between the median and the max= engineer shrink, the gap between the great and the best engineers is abo= ut to get much larger. The top engineers of the AI future will probably u= tilize a different skill set than the top engineers of today.=20 I RE= PLACED A $120/YEAR MICRO-SAAS IN 20 MINUTES WITH LLM-GENERATED CODE (8 MI= NUTE READ) [10]=20 It's now possible to replace services with AI-genera= ted code, if you know what you're doing. It's only going to get easier. S= aaS businesses that don't give ongoing value are at risk of being replace= d by customers. 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OpenAI Plans Fourth-Quarter= IPO in Race to Beat Anthropic to Market (3 minute read)

OpenAI is holding informal talks with W= all Street banks about a potential initial public offering in the fourth qu= arter of this year. 2026 is expected to be a blockbuster year for stock mar= ket debuts after a drought. Some on Wall Street are speculating that this y= ear could be the biggest year ever for IPOs. OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceX = are among the most closely watched tech companies that could go public.
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Custom machine kept man ali= ve without lungs for 48 hours (6 minute read)

An artificial lung system built by a te= am at Northwestern University successfully kept a critically ill patient al= ive long enough to enable a double lung transplant. The surgery involved te= mporarily replacing the patient's entire pulmonary system with a synthetic = surrogate. The patient lived for two days without lungs. They received dono= r lungs after 48 hours, when their body was no longer suffering from sepsis= .. The patient has returned to a normal, independent life with excellent lun= g function.
How do We Quantify Progress= in Robotics? (12 minute read)

Offline data sets don't work because ro= bots never do exactly the same thing. These errors compound. Robots are har= dware plus an algorithm, and hardware factors often matter more to task exe= cution than the algorithm being used. Any real benchmark by necessity shoul= d look like a human competition. There are already early versions of such e= vents, like the World Humanoid Games. However, major companies right now ha= ve too much to lose and too little to gain to bother competing.
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The future of 10x engineeri= ng (2 minute read)

Generative AI will make engineers bette= r. While it may make the gap between the median and the max engineer shrink= , the gap between the great and the best engineers is about to get much lar= ger. The top engineers of the AI future will probably utilize a different s= kill set than the top engineers of today.
I replaced a $120/year micr= o-SaaS in 20 minutes with LLM-generated code (8 minute read)

It's now possible to replace services w= ith AI-generated code, if you know what you're doing. It's only going to ge= t easier. SaaS businesses that don't give ongoing value are at risk of bein= g replaced by customers. The ease of developing these tools will mean that = buying and selling SaaS businesses will become less profitable.
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Tesla is committing automot= ive suicide (4 minute read)

Tesla's Q4 2025 earnings call made it c= lear that the company is no longer interested in being an automaker. The co= mpany has killed the Model S and Model X and has no plans for new mass-mark= et models. It is pivoting entirely to 'transportation as a service'. Tesla = will continue to focus on robotaxis, humanoid robots, and their supporting = infrastructure, especially training compute.
Amazon in Talks to Invest U= p to $50 Billion in OpenAI (3 minute read)

Amazon's CEO, Andy Jassy, is leading ne= gotiations with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman for an investment of up to $50 billio= n in OpenAI. The AI startup is seeking up to $100 billion in a funding roun= d that could value it at up to $830 billion. Amazon has deep ties with Anth= ropic, one of OpenAI's competitors. It has invested $8 billion in Anthropic= and is one of its key cloud providers. Amazon also developed an $11 billio= n data center campus for Anthropic.
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Some engineers are becoming more valuab= le than ever, while others are watching their skills depreciate in real tim= e.
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