What You Need to Know About the SpaceX-xAI Merger Before the 2026 SpaceX IPO

By now you've heard the news: Elon Musk plans to IPO SpaceX in July 2026 -- just a little less than six months from now. This will happen after he already: Conducted an insider sale of SpaceX shares valuing the company at $800 billion (in December). Merged his money-losing social media platform X (formerly Twitter) into his even-more-money-losing artificial intelligence company xAI (in March). And, most recently, merged the result of that merger with SpaceX itself (just last month). The result? L ...