SpaceX and xAI have merged.

This is a structural statement about where power is migrating as the old systems visibly strain under their own weight.

When one entity controls launch capability, orbital infrastructure, satellite communications, and now a sovereign AI stack, you’re no longer talking about a company in the conventional sense, you’re talking about infrastructure that increasingly operates above borders, outside traditional choke points, and beyond the reach of slow bureaucracies that were designed for a different era.

Power has never really lived in parliaments or palaces, it lives in whoever controls the rails of civilisation, and those rails are no longer roads, ports, or even undersea cables, they’re launchpads, orbits, data flows, and computing power.

Empires collapse when they become irrelevant, and this merger tells you who understands that and who is already too late.