Priscilla Chan (R) and her husband Mark Zuckerberg announce the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to “cure, prevent or manage all disease” by the end of the century during a news conference at UCSF Mission Bay in San Francisco. Beck Diefenbach | Reuters Biohub, a Chan Zuckerberg Initiative-funded non-profit research organization, announced Thursday that it will open…
Hello, this is Priyanka Salve, writing to you from Singapore. Welcome to the latest edition of “Inside India“ — your one-stop destination for stories and developments from the world’s fastest-growing large economy. India is seen as a laggard in the global AI race, but having the world’s second-largest workforce and relatively low labor costs has led…
Mark Zuckerberg is betting that prediction markets are the future. the new York Times report that Zuck wants Meta to have its own Polymarket-like smartphone app, and has given it permission to develop one internally, calling it “Arena”. The app will be independent from Meta’s other social media offerings, although sources told the newspaper that…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg exits Los Angeles Superior Court in Los Angeles, California, Feb. 18, 2026. Kyle Grillot | Bloomberg | Getty Images Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg has directed staff to create a prediction markets platform, a person familiar with the company’s plans who asked not to be named confirmed to CNBC. The New…
A year after spending over $14 billion to bring in Alexandr Wang and a group of his top Scale AI engineers to revamp its artificial intelligence efforts, Meta is at least back on the map in AI, though it’s still far behind OpenAI, Anthropic and Google in the market. Wang’s big accomplishment was the delivery…
A video displays Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX, after the company’s initial public offering at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York on June 12, 2026. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Shortly before the opening of Nasdaq trading on Friday, Elon Musk stepped in front of a cheerful crowd at SpaceX’s company town in…
Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., during the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, US, on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Meta is once again trying to prove it can make money by doing something other than selling ads. It’s not a strategy that’s…
Meta CEO, Mark Zuckerberg and Tesla and SpaceX CEO, Elon Musk Manuel Orbegozo | Chip Somodevilla | Reuters When SpaceX finally debuts on the Nasdaq, under the ticker symbol SPCX, it will almost certainly set a record for the largest offering ever. By a long shot. Elon Musk’s reusable rocket maker filed its long-awaited IPO…
An Elon Musk sign sits in a bush the federal courthouse during proceedings in the trial over Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI in Oakland, California, on April 30, 2026. Josh Edelson | AFP | Getty Images A progressive wing of the Democratic Party in Delaware is endorsing primary opponents to six incumbent Democratic state lawmakers…
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet. Source: Alphabet Meta and Alphabet both beat expectations in their earnings reports on Wednesday, each recording their fastest growth in years. They also lifted their guidance for capital expenditures for the year, telling investors that they’re going to keep pouring money into artificial intelligence infrastructure. But despite their similarly upbeat…
