Microsoft Stock Plummets as Elon Musk Explores SpaceX and xAI Merger

Microsoft shares fell 12% after the company reported $37.5B in capital expenditures for artificial intelligence infrastructure.Elon Musk is exploring a merger between SpaceX and xAI to build orbital data centers while Apple acquired audio startup Q.ai for $2B.Major publishers including The New York Times are blocking the Internet Archive to prevent unauthorized data scraping for model training.