Elon Musk’s super PAC is putting its first midterm money behind some of the GOP’s most important election battlegrounds, spending more than $800,000 across seven Senate races and a handful of competitive House districts, according to a new Federal Election Commission disclosure. The spending by America PAC offers the clearest look yet at where the…
Former Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov is launching a defense technology company backed by Palantir CEO Alex Karp, as the former government official looks to turn Ukraine’s wartime technology experience into products for Kyiv and its allies. Karp is set to become the company’s first lead investor, according to Fedorov’s press office. The size of…
Tomohiro Ohsumi | Bloomberg | Getty Images SB Energy, the artificial intelligence power infrastructure company backed by Softbank, OpenAI and Nvidia, has filed for an initial public offering with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Among the risk factors listed in the Tuesday filing, SB Energy said it’s “substantially dependent” on the performance of OpenAI as…
My top 10 things to watch Monday, Aug. 31 1. Oil is up nearly 4% and Chevron , my crude barometer, is trading above $200. U.S. and Iran exchanged attacks for the first time since July. President Donald Trump is threatening to blow up an Iranian oil hub, growing frustrated by a slower-moving sanctions approach….
A combination photo shows CEO of OpenAI Sam Altman (L) on April 28, 2026 and Elon Musk on April 29, 2026 during the trial in Elon Musk’s lawsuit over OpenAI for-profit conversion at a federal courthouse in Oakland, California, U.S. Manuel Orbegozo | Reuters OpenAI announced late Friday that it is ending developers’ access to…
A woman holds signs during a nationwide protest against AI data center expansion outside Peace Hall in New Port Richey, Florida on July 18, 2026. Thomas Simonetti | AFP | Getty Images Silicon Valley’s technology leaders have long dreamed of making the world a better place. But now more than ever, Americans say they’re living…
After an explosive debut and equally impressive crash, SpaceX shares are now, well, hovering in midair. After debuting as the most volatile stock among its large-cap peers, Elon Musk‘s astronomic equity hasn’t moved in three weeks, with shares trading in a $10 range around the $140 level. Implied volatility, a rough measure of the costs…
Ship 40 is stacked atop Booster 20 in preparation for Flight 13 at SpaceX’s South Texas facility in Cameron County, Texas, on July 22, 2026. Reginald Mathalone | Nurphoto | Getty Images Elon Musk is continuing his push into the Southern U.S. with SpaceX, his aerospace and tech conglomerate, planning a $100 billion launch facility…
Nine thousand people working long hours, six days a week, to meet a deadline for full production of memory chips by the first quarter of 2027. The workers know they can each make $200,000, maybe more. They seem united in their mission; no Potemkin village going up in Boise, Idaho. Just two state-of-the-art fabs for…
Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, district judge of the US District Court for the Northern District of California, attends a panel discussion at the annual American Bar Association (ABA) Antitrust Spring Meeting in Washington, DC, on April 2, 2025. Drew Angerer | Afp | Getty Images It’s been a crazy four months for Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers….
