By Mike Swift ( August 4, 2026, 23:27 GMT | Insight) -- SpaceX detailed an array of litigation challenges as it issued its first quarterly earnings report Tuesday, including content-moderation issues in Europe and the US, privacy litigation in a federal court in California, and patent disputes in Texas and elsewhere involving its xAI subsidiary and X social media platform. SpaceX said it has set aside more than $350 million for probable litigation costs.The first quarterly earnings report by SpaceX, the parent company to xAI, on Tuesday detailed a series of legal costs due to litigation over privacy, sexualized deep fake images sent by the Grok chatbot and IP disputes in the US and Europe....
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