Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Kyle Dijamco is a proud member of Palantir Technologies‘ fast-growing retail investor base. The Los Angeles-based marketer has bet big on the defense tech stock, even increasing his exposure after a drawdown earlier this year. The 31-year-old’s position now stands at roughly $25,000. “It’s an exciting stock to…
Vladimir Godnik | Fstop | Getty Images For years, Braden Wallake has posted everything from business lessons to animal pictures on his LinkedIn page. A fateful midweek post on a late-summer day stopped the marketing executive in his tracks. Wallake shared a teary-eyed selfie with a message about his feelings after laying off staff. Just…
People observe an area affected by a blackout that hit about 130,000 residents, according to the Pacific Gas and Electric Company, in San Francisco on Dec. 21, 2025. Carlos Barria | Reuters Alphabet-owned Waymo has suspended its driverless ride-hail service in the San Francisco Bay Area after blackouts plagued the city Saturday afternoon. “We have…
Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, attends the Viva Technology conference at the Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris on June 16, 2023. Gonzalo Fuentes | Reuters Elon Musk‘s 2018 CEO pay package from Tesla, worth some $56 billion when it vested, must be restored, the Delaware Supreme Court ruled Friday. “We reverse…
Pickle Robot, which makes autonomous unloading robots for warehouses and distribution centers, announced a new chief financial officer just days after reports A great deal with UPS. The Charlestown, Massachusetts-based company announced its Jeff Evanson hired as its CFO on Thursday. Evanson has been consulting for the company since September and recently joined full-time. Evanson…
Billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman has been confirmed by the US Senate as the next Administrator of NASA. The private astronaut and founder of the Shift4 payment processing platform will now be in charge of an agency that faces great uncertainty under President Trump. Isaacman’s confirmation comes a little more than a year after Trump nominated…
Tesla electric vehicles (EV) in front of the company’s store in Colma, California, US, on Monday, Nov. 10, 2025. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images A California administrative law judge has ruled that Tesla’s marketing around its “Autopilot” and “Full Self-Driving” systems was deceptive, and that the company should face a 30-day suspension…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk attends the Saudi-U.S. Investment Forum, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, May 13, 2025. Hamad I Mohammed | Reuters What started off as a particularly rough year for Tesla investors is turning into quite the celebration. Following a 36% plunge in the first quarter, the stock’s worst period since 2022, Tesla shares have…
President Donald Trump has an “alcoholic’s personality” and has engaged in legal “retribution” against his enemies since his return to office, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles said in a remarkably candid series of interviews with Vanity Fair published Tuesday. Wiles said in March that she and Trump had a “loose agreement that the…
Robotaxis felt like science fiction just a decade ago, but this year, autonomous vehicles became a commonplace option for paying passengers across big cities in the U.S. and parts of Asia. Alphabet-owned Waymo kept expanding and dominates the robotaxi market in the U.S., though rivals Tesla and Amazon-owned Zoox also launched the first versions of…
