Musk confirms SpaceX and Tesla exploring merger

What the coverage shows

Most outlets converge on Musk saying he will give one SpaceX share to every child in America next year, with CNBC, Axios, Forbes Breaking News and the New York Times all treating that pledge as the core story. The main differences are in framing: Axios alone stresses the giveaway’s estimated dollar value, while the New York Times alone foregrounds Anthropic and other tech figures as context. Forbes Breaking News is the only outlet here to pair the pledge with Musk’s criticism of Anthropic’s fund plan.

Written by Crossfiled from the 9 headlines and extracts below, not from the articles themselves. It describes how the outlets framed this, not what happened. Open any headline for a summary of that article.