13 Jun 2026
How the military-industrial complex built the first trillionaire
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Wall Street valued SpaceX as a private company, but its rise was built on government research, military contracts and the U.S. war budget.
13 Jun 2026
How rich is a trillionaire? Elon Musk can sponsor IPL for 17,000 years, spend Rs 1 crore daily for 23,500 years
When most people hear the word 'trillion', it is difficult to grasp just how large that number really is. A million sounds huge. A billion sounds almost unimaginable. But a trillion is an entirely different scale. The question has taken centre stage after Elon Musk became the world's first trillionaire, a milestone driven by soaring valuations of his companies, including Tesla, SpaceX and xAI.…
13 Jun 2026
Photos of key moments in SpaceX history, from the scrappy startup days to milestone rocket launches
SpaceX's valuation has grown exponentially since its 2002 founding. Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Nearly 25 years ago, a mariachi band played at a SpaceX party while Elon Musk posed for a photo. The rocket company's head count was single digits back then. Today, it's over 22,000. SpaceX started with two long-shot goals: make rockets cheaper to launch and, eventually, send…
13 Jun 2026
Why it’s nearly impossible to build a robot without China
A boxing robot demonstration at Unitree in Hangzhou, China, last year. Building on the country’s electric vehicle industry, Chinese companies are making robot parts at a scale and price point others can’t match.
13 Jun 2026
How AI is reshaping stem cell therapy through cellular intelligence
Cells have always been the body’s original intelligence system – sensing, adapting, repairing, and communicating with remarkable precision. Today, artificial intelligence is beginning to mirror that same biological brilliance, transforming how we diagnose and treat disease. Stem‐cell therapy, once defined by painstaking laboratory work and slow trial-and-error experimentation, is undergoing a…
13 Jun 2026
SpaceX stock soars in debut and makes Elon Musk the first trillionaire
Gwynne Shotwell, President and COO of SpaceX celebrates with colleagues during a bell ringing ceremony for the IPO of SpaceX at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York, Friday, June 12, 2026, in New York. Frank Franklin II/AP Photo/Frank Franklin II NEW YORK (AP) — Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire after shares of his rocket company SpaceX soared in Wall Street's biggest initial public…
13 Jun 2026
Anthropic's safety warnings may have just backfired — the government has pulled the plug on its most powerful AI
The U.S. government on Friday ordered Anthropic to immediately shut off access to two of its most powerful AI models — Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 — citing national security concerns.
13 Jun 2026
Anthropic disables access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 to comply with government directive
Dario Amodei, chief executive officer of Anthropic, at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, India, on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026. Ruhani Kaur | Bloomberg | Getty Images
12 Jun 2026
Elon Musk, the world's first trillionaire - his stratospheric rise in charts
Elon Musk became the world's first trillionaire on Friday, following the record-breaking stock market debut of his company SpaceX. With a current estimated net worth of about $1.11tn, according to Bloomberg, Musk sits well above wealthy billionaires topping rich lists, including Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, and boss of French luxury goods group LVMH,…
