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Elon Musk becomes world’s first trillionaire as SpaceX begins trading
Elon Musk gestures in the gallery on the day of President Donald Trump's speech to a joint session of Congress, in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, March 4, 2025.Kevin Lamarque | ReutersElon Musk just became the…
Judge blocks DOJ’s Anti-weaponization fund for longer
Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche listens to a reporter's question during a press conference at the Department of Justice June 11, 2026 in Washington, DC. Win McNamee | Getty ImagesA federal judge in Virginia on Friday granted a…
Mistral’s Mensch on agentic AI, chips and adoption
I was in Paris in June 2023 when I heard news of a four-week-old startup called Mistral raising a funding round of over $100 million. No product. No marketing. And not much info about who they were. Over the coming months we learned more…
SpaceX needs to achieve 2 of its moonshots to keep valuation: Steve Westly
The SpaceX facility and a Falcon 9 rocket booster are shown, as the company prepares to file for an initial public offering (IPO), in Hawthorne California, U.S., April 23, 2026. Mike Blake | ReutersElon Musk's SpaceX will need to achieve…
For Warsh as Fed chair, silence may be the point
Markets head into the first Fed meeting run by new Chair Kevin Warsh with almost no idea what he thinks about the recent surge in job growth, the acceleration in inflation or the path of interest rates.And that may be by design.Warsh has…
SpaceX COO Gwynne Shotwell has a message for investors
SpaceX didn't just rewrite the playbook for aerospace and defense, it helped birth a new space economy.Now Elon Musk's company is tackling a different type of moonshot: going public. "I wasn't sure we would go public," SpaceX Chief…
SpaceX IPO: The largest in history
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is displayed outside a Space Exploration Technologies Corp. facility in Hawthorne, California, on March 26, 2026.Patrick T. Fallon | Afp | Getty ImagesHello, this is Leonie Kidd writing to you from London.…
Luxury stocks spike on proposed U.S.-Iran peace deal; LVMH up 5%
Luxury stocks saw a sharp uptick after a proposed Iran-U.S. deal outlined a reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and lifting of U.S. oil sanctions, according to Iran state media on Friday.Shares of LVMH, Gucci-owner Kering, and Hermes were…
Proposed Iran-U.S. deal would reopen Hormuz strait and lift oil sanctions,
The draft version of the Iran-U.S. memorandum of understanding includes a commitment from the U.S. to lift oil sanctions and a commitment from Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, Iranian state media reported Friday.The 14-point document…
a billion monthly app users despite souring public AI sentiment
Protesters gather with banners and placards outside the offices of Google Deepmind at a protest organized by PauseAI UK and other groups concerned in controlling the development of advanced Artificial Intelligence systems, in London on…