SpaceX AI Unit Weighed Buying Data From Defunct Startups

The striking part is not the data itself but the consent gap: when a company dissolves, its customer records become an asset with no living counterparty to approve a new use, and the internal debate reportedly treated that absence as an opening rather than a blocker. That reframes the governance question around Grok's training pipeline — not whether the data is legally purchasable, but whether a defunct firm's silence should count as permission. How the AI unit resolves that internally, and whether any such purchase actually proceeds, is the open question worth watching.