{"id":497120,"date":"2026-02-24T21:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T21:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/497120\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T21:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T21:28:09","slug":"microsoft-and-spacexs-starlink-partner-on-global-internet-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/497120\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft and SpaceX’s Starlink partner on global internet effort"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elon Musk attends the 56th annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 22, 2026.<\/p>\n

Denis Balibouse | Reuters<\/p>\n

Microsoft<\/a> on Tuesday announced a collaboration with SpaceX<\/a>‘s Starlink<\/a> satellite internet service to expand connectivity across the world.<\/p>\n

It’s a sign of the software company’s willingness to collaborate with Tesla<\/a> CEO Elon Musk<\/a>‘s family of businesses, as the world’s richest person takes Microsoft partner OpenAI<\/a> to court. <\/p>\n

“Through our collaboration with Starlink, Microsoft is combining low-Earth orbit satellite connectivity with community-based deployment models and local ecosystem partnerships,” Microsoft’s chief sustainability officer, Melanie Nakagawa, wrote in a blog post<\/a>. <\/p>\n

In alliance with Starlink and an internet service provider in Kenya, Microsoft is working to connect 450 community hubs in the country, Nakagawa wrote.<\/p>\n

The work will add to demand for Musk’s space company<\/a>, which has contracts with the Department of Defense and NASA and could potentially go public this year.<\/p>\n

In his case against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman<\/a>, Musk is looking to recover as much as $134 billion from the nonprofit OpenAI Foundation, which holds over $100 billion in equity in the for-profit AI lab, according to a January legal filing.<\/p>\n

Musk cofounded<\/a> OpenAI in 2015 along with several others, including LinkedIn founder and Microsoft board member Reid Hoffman.<\/p>\n

Musk has been critical of Microsoft on his social network X and said earlier this month that the company “has a responsibility to investigate<\/a>” Hoffman’s association with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n

Hoffman said that he deeply regretted<\/a> that he knew Epstein through a fundraising relationship with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, Musk said SpaceX was merging with<\/a> his xAI startup that developed the Grok AI model and chatbot that has been gaining traction as a platform of choice for tech applications.<\/p>\n

Last year, Microsoft said its Foundry cloud software for building AI-infused applications added support<\/a> for Grok models.<\/p>\n

Microsoft has been working to connect people with technology for many years, including in the U.S.<\/p>\n

After setting a goal in 2022 to bring the internet to over 250 million people before the end of 2025, it has extended coverage to more than 299 million people, Nakagawa wrote Tuesday.<\/p>\n

WATCH: Why the U.S. and SpaceX need each other<\/a><\/p>\n

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