Elon Musk, as tech critic Ed Zitron astutely noted, is a master plate-spinner: he always seems to keep the crowd dazzled with an ever-rotating spread of shiny toys.
The plate currently featured front and center, SpaceX, has been wobbling after an underwhelming IPO. So Musk is giving it another hearty twirl: a flashy new AI-integrated device to keep investors on the two-trillion dollar hook.
According to new reporting by the Wall Street Journal, the new device is a handset featuring a sleek design “slimmer than an iPhone,” engineered to run on a proprietary SpaceX operating system.
A prototype of the odd new gadget was first shown to select investors ahead of the company’s initial public offering earlier in June. Per the WSJ, some of the people familiar with the handset said it will integrate “AI technology” from Musk’s xAI company, using Qualcomm Snapdragon chip architecture.
