A general view of a SpaceX building and Starship rocket ahead of the SpaceX initial public offering (IPO), in Starbase, Texas, U.S., June 11, 2026. Gabriel V. Cardenas | Reuters SpaceX scrubbed the launch of its Starship mega rocket on Thursday, with CEO Elon Musk pledging to make another attempt “hopefully in a few days.”…
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, is seen in the U.S. Capitol after a meeting in the office of Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., March 26, 2026. Tom Williams | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images A coalition of current and former Meta employees have sued the social media giant, alleging that the company used…
Meta’s 5-gigawatt Hyperion data center under construction in Richland Parish, Louisiana, Jan. 9, 2026. Courtesy of Meta Meta’s massive Hyperion data center project in rural Louisiana is getting much bigger and costlier, with a big assist from the state’s government. The company said in a blog post on Monday that the site in Richland Parish,…
Master | Moment | Getty Images Chip stocks have had a blistering rally over the past year as investors bet on the semiconductor sector’s central role in the global AI infrastructure buildout. But renewed volatility around chip stocks has sparked a debate if this is a sign of broader concern about AI demand. In interviews…
People pass by The Spheres in downtown Seattle, Washington, on June 25, 2025. Juan Mabromata | AFP | Getty Images On an early morning in January, Jake Linsley woke up to a text from Amazon that was lighting up his phone. “I thought it was saying, ‘Your package is delayed,’” Linsley said in an interview….
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg attends the annual Allen and Co. Sun Valley Media and Technology Conference at the Sun Valley Resort in Sun Valley, Idaho, U.S., July 9, 2026. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Meta shares rallied on Friday, lifting their gains for the week to 15%, the best weekly performance since early 2024, as optimism…
For the past two years, the artificial intelligence race has been easy to score: bigger models, better benchmarks and whichever company could claim the lead, at least until the next launch. That scorecard is starting to look incomplete. As companies move from testing AI to using it in real products and workflows, it’s not longer…
Fidji Simo, chief executive officer of Instacart Inc., speaks during a Bloomberg Studio 1.0 interview in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Thursday, March 3, 2022. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Fidji Simo, OpenAI’s product and business chief, on Thursday announced she is stepping down from her role at the artificial intelligence company to focus…
Argentina’s forward #10 Lionel Messi kicks the ball during the Qatar 2022 World Cup final football match between Argentina and France at Lusail Stadium in Lusail, north of Doha on December 18, 2022. Kirill Kudryavtsev | Afp | Getty Images Alphabet-owned Google broke a search record thanks to the World Cup international soccer tournament. During…
OpenAI Ceo Sam Altman speaks to journalists after meeting with US House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on June 3, 2026. Brendan Smialowski | AFP | Getty Images OpenAI said it will publicly release its GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra and Luna models on Thursday, roughly two weeks after the artificial intelligence…
