Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) questions U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth as he testifies before the House Armed Services Committee April 29, 2026 in the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, DC. Win Mcnamee | Getty Images Potential 2028 presidential hopeful Rep. Ro Khanna challenged newly minted trillionaire Elon Musk to a televised debate on…
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…
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 Operating Officer Gwynne Shotwell told CNBC in an exclusive interview, just before the company started its…
SpaceX is officially set for the largest IPO on record. Elon Musk’s reusable rocket company is raising $75 billion, selling 555.6 million shares for $135 a piece, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The deal values SpaceX at $1.77 trillion, making it the seventh most-valuable U.S. company, ahead of Tesla, Musk’s…
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…
Drew Houston, chief executive officer and co-founder of Dropbox Inc., smiles during The Wall Street Journal Tech Live conference in Laguna Beach, California, U.S., on Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2019. Martina Albertazzi | Bloomberg | Getty Images Drew Houston founded Dropbox nearly two decades ago out at age 24, eventually becoming a household name in Silicon…
US President Donald Trump gestures as he speaks to reporters after arriving on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, on May 15, 2026. Alex Wroblewski | AFP | Getty Images President Donald Trump said Monday he is calling off a plan to attack Iran on Tuesday after the heads of three…
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk attends a state banquet for US President Donald Trump and China’s President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on May 14, 2026. Brendan Smialowski | Afp | Getty Images SpaceX, which confidentially filed for an IPO in April, is planning to disclose its prospectus…
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. For more than two decades, consecutive U.S. administrations have seen India as a counterbalance to China’s growing influence in the Indo-Pacific. But the current U.S…
tiktok is Introduction An ad-free subscription plan in the UK that costs £3.99 (about $5.44 USD) per month. The new offering is rolling out in the coming months and will be available to users 18 years of age and older. Users who sign up for the plan will not see ads on TikTok and their…
