By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON, Feb 13 (Reuters) - The space race between U.S. billionaires is heating up, with Elon Musk's SpaceX planning to build a lunar base and Jeff Bezos pushing Blue Origin's ambitions as both companies aim to return humans to the moon ahead of a planned mission by China in 2030.

Elon Musk shifts SpaceX’s focus from Mars to building a self-growing city on the moon, citing speed, strategy, and rising competition from China.

Elon Musk’s bankers are working on a potential financing plan after the merger of SpaceX and xAI that could trim some of the heavy interest costs that the billionaire racked up in recent

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is delaying Mars plans to focus on an uncrewed Moon landing by March 2027 “We're gonna go to the Moon, we're gonna have a base on the Moon, we're gonna send people to Mars and make life multiplanetary” pic.twitter.com/urwQdRMpbs

"SpaceX has already shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the Moon, as we can potentially achieve that in less than 10 years, whereas Mars would take 20+ years," Musk claimed

Elon Musk accuses Anthropic's AI models of being "misanthropic and evil," claiming competitor's Claude models exhibit racial and demographic bias.

National Labor Relations Board says it does not have legal oversight of SpaceX and dismisses case

According to The New York Times, Musk described a proposed facility that would include a massive catapult designed to launch satellites into space.