16 Jun 2026
Elon Musk Just Made More Money in 6.5 Hours Than Warren Buffett Made in His Entire Life.
Yesterday handed Elon Musk one of the largest single-day wealth gains in recorded financial history. SpaceX shares ripped from $160.95 to $192.50, and Forbes’ real-time billionaires tracker put Musk’s one-day paper gain at $164.8 billion. Warren Buffett, who had his own “good day” with an estimated $2 billion gain, finished the session with a net worth of $146.4 billion. Read that again. In a…
16 Jun 2026
Elon Musk’s unprecendented accumulation of wealth
Hi and welcome to TechScape. Nick Robins-Early here, US tech and power reporter at the Guardian. I’m filling in for your usual host Blake Montgomery, who is out this week on vacation. Today, we’ll be talking about the historic SpaceX IPO and the US government’s surprise order to limit the use of Anthropic’s most advanced AI model over cybersecurity concerns. I’ll also share a dispatch from Web…
16 Jun 2026
Four moves to stay ahead amid geopolitics, tariffs and supply chain disruption
As global markets convulse under the pressure of geopolitical uncertainty, tariffs and supply chain disruption, the temptation is to wait for clarity. Yet according to experts from Bain & Company, that passive approach is one that comes with a strategic cost.
16 Jun 2026
Trump just found the worst way to regulate AI
In a sense, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is getting what he wanted. Amodei has long argued that AI is becoming dangerously powerful — and thus, that regulatory restrictions on the technology are urgently needed.
15 Jun 2026
20 years of Intel Macs: Why Apple switched, and why it switched again
So long, x86 Remembering the ups and downs of the Intel Mac era as it finally winds down. Apple's then-CEO Steve Jobs talking about the Mac's transition to Intel processors in 2005.
15 Jun 2026
Endurance Energy completes $54 million funding round to develop subsea geothermal technology
US-based Endurance Energy has raised $54 million in Series A funding to advance the development of their technologies for subsea geothermal systems.
15 Jun 2026
Taiwan firm unveils next-gen humanoid robot for real-world operations
AI-powered brain enables reasoning and planning, while 3D vision, LiDAR, and sensors support balance and real-time interaction. A Tawniese firm has unveiled its first humanoid robot capable of interacting with the physical world.
15 Jun 2026
Monday Morning Commentary: Why Inequality Still Matters
In a recent essay titled “The Trouble with Inequality Politics,” writers Jerusalem Demsas and Milan Singh argue that Americans are focusing on the wrong problem when they obsess over Elon Musk becoming the world’s first trillionaire.
15 Jun 2026
Hundreds of hidden earthquakes discovered beneath Antarctica — and they're happening in a very odd location
Artificial intelligence (AI) has revealed hundreds of previously unknown earthquakes beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, including some in an unexpected place: in the middle of a tectonic plate, far from a plate boundary.
