{"id":273497,"date":"2026-01-31T09:51:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T09:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/273497\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T09:51:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T09:51:22","slug":"elon-musks-ai-push-has-him-considering-mergers-in-search-for-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/273497\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s AI Push Has Him Considering Mergers in Search for Capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">During his surprise appearance at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Elon Musk mused about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/videos\/2026-01-22\/musk-says-reversing-ageing-may-be-possible-video\" title=\"Musk Says Reversing Ageing May Be Possible (Video)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">reversing aging<\/a>, enlisting humanoid robots to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/videos\/2026-01-22\/musk-says-everyone-on-earth-will-have-a-robot-video\" title=\"Musk Says Everyone on Earth Will Have a Robot (Video)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">look after kids<\/a> and launching solar-powered data centers into space \u2014 that last one, he said, was a \u201cno-brainer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Less obvious was how all these endeavors will be funded. Already, the staggering cost of developing artificial intelligence, then putting it to work in furtherance of Musk\u2019s manifold visions, is beginning to bend the structure of his sprawling empire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During his surprise appearance at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Elon Musk mused about reversing aging, enlisting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,72,2897,4990,15703,61,4082,60,8873,10116,1884,80,15503,44715,45379],"class_list":{"0":"post-273497","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-cash-flow","13":"tag-economics","14":"tag-elon-reeve-musk","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-infrastructure","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-mergers","19":"tag-robotics","20":"tag-startups","21":"tag-technology","22":"tag-tesla-inc","23":"tag-the-big-take","24":"tag-world-economic-forum"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}