Quite apart from the blatant corruption, if SpaceX's biggest problem is that its rockets keep exploding, how is an AI that you have deliberately designed to give wrong answers supposed to fix things?
Thanks to gutting NASA and science budgets, space is another area where the US will soon cede the top spot to China. They have fully developed plans for a lunar base, deep space exploration, and will likely be the next to have humans on the Moon.
BTW - to anyone who tries to argue this isn't outright corruption, via diverting and siphoning taxpayers money, I have NFTs and memecoins for a bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to interest you in.
SpaceX to invest $2 billion in Musk's xAI startup, WSJ reports
SpaceX is a private company, once it has been paid money that money is SpaceX's and is not taxpayer money any more. It's been spent. If the government hired a contractor to build a road, paid them to do so, and then the contractor took the money they'd been paid and invested it in some other company that the contractor owned, is that "corruption?"
Insert standard disclaimer here; Elon Musk is a terrible person and he's made a lot of terrible decisions, etc. and so forth. It's not going to stop me from being called a bootlicker, not sure why I bother inserting it.
Depends if the results paid for by the government are delivered.
Did the US pay for a certain number of rockets to explode this fiscal quarter?