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Report suggests SpaceX is testing a handheld AI device, Musk says it's 'utterly false'
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- The purported gadget was reported to offer a way to access x AI's models without having to use a smartphone.
- Walter Cicchetti/Shutterstock Space X, the newly-public satellite internet company that also dabbles in rockets and CSAM-generating chatbots, might be building its own AI hardware.
- Update, July 1 2026, 4:20PM ET: Well, that was fast.
The purported gadget was reported to offer a way to access x AI's models without having to use a smartphone.
Walter Cicchetti/Shutterstock Space X, the newly-public satellite internet company that also dabbles in rockets and CSAM-generating chatbots, might be building its own AI hardware. The Wall Street Journal reports that ahead of its initial public offering, Space X demoed a handheld AI device to investors that could put the company in the same rarified air as Rabbit, or some day, Open AI.
Update, July 1 2026, 4:20PM ET: Well, that was fast. In the minutes since our article published, Elon Musk has replied to a post on X to say that the WSJ report is "utterly false." The rest of this story below covers what the original article reported.
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