{"id":738225,"date":"2026-07-02T04:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T04:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/738225\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T04:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T04:15:10","slug":"elon-musk-denies-a-report-about-spacexs-ai-phone-prototype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/738225\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk denies a report about SpaceX\u2019s AI phone prototype"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">The device was \u201cslimmer than an iPhone,\u201d and they were told it would run on a Qualcomm Snapdragon chip, according to the WSJ. It would also reportedly use its own AI-enabled operating system with features powered by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/872619\/elon-musk-merges-spacex-with-xai-and-x\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the SpaceX-owned xAI<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/957502\/spacex-might-compete-directly-with-att-t-mobile-and-verizon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Financial Times reported<\/a> that SpaceX chief operating officer Gwynne Shotwell told investors that the company is considering launching a mobile service in the US that would connect to its Starlink satellite network. Meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/seekingalpha.com\/news\/4607456-spacex-could-buy-t-mobile-in-pitch-to-turn-starlink-into-global-connectivity-platform\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">some analysts speculate<\/a> SpaceX could acquire T-Mobile. Starlink is currently SpaceX\u2019s only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/05\/21\/spacex-starlink-growth-profit-nasdaq-ipo.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">profitable business<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Musk has brushed off the idea of creating a phone in the past, but didn\u2019t rule it out completely. During an event in Pennsylvania last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/elon-musk-says-idea-creating-143055222.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Musk said<\/a>, \u201cthe idea of making a phone makes me want to die,\u201d but added, \u201cif we have to make a phone, we will, but we will aspire not to make a phone.\u201d In February, Musk said SpaceX is \u201cnot developing a phone\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/media-telecom\/starlink-fuels-spacex-growth-with-potential-phone-more-internet-services-2026-02-05\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">after Reuters reported<\/a> that the company is working on a phone for Starlink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The device was \u201cslimmer than an iPhone,\u201d and they were told it would run on a Qualcomm Snapdragon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":738226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[11,165,3,79,193,1513,172,74],"class_list":["post-738225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-elon-musk","tag-mobile","tag-news","tag-science","tag-space","tag-spacex","tag-tech","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/738226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}