09 Jul 2026
Trump cheers Gwynne Shotwell as Musk's SpaceX No. 2 gives $325M in stock to Trump Accounts
President Donald Trump praised SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell on Thursday after she and her husband announced an undisclosed SpaceX stock gift to Trump accounts that the president said amounted to $325 million.
08 Jul 2026
Exclusive: Fi is bringing Starlink satellite technology to dog collars
Jonathan Bensamoun has a 100-pound German Shepherd named Thor—and a story every dog owner knows. A few years ago, while in the Hamptons, his perfectly-trained shepherd spotted a family of deer. “He looks at me, looks at the deer,” Bensamoun recalled. “And he just bolted.” For several minutes, Bensamoun was powerless. Luckily Thor returned on his own. That moment is what Bensamoun built Fi—a smart…
05 Jul 2026
Meet the soccer-playing humanoid robot that just delivered the game ball at the Brazil v. Norway FIFA World Cup match
Before Brazil and Norway retook the pitch at New York/New Jersey Stadium for their Round of 16 match on Saturday, something happened at halftime that had never occurred in FIFA World Cup history. A five-foot humanoid robot walked pitchside, performed goal celebrations in the style of Harry Kane, Erling Haaland, Matheus Cunha, and Son Heung-min, then turned to the referee and handed over the match…
03 Jul 2026
Elon Musk can’t sell a single SpaceX share for a year—and then all the locks crack open at once
Unless you’ve been on the moon, you know that Elon Musk’s SpaceX just pulled off the biggest IPO of all time and raised about $86 billion in its public stock offering last month.
02 Jul 2026
Fortune Tech: Meta cloud plans, SpaceX smartphone, Sony gaming goes digital
Good morning. How much would you pay for a robot companion? The Chinese robot maker UBTech on Wednesday unveiled what it calls an “ultra-bionic” full-sized humanoid family called Uworld U1. According to its maker, the bot features “biomimetic skin” and “emotion-driven” AI; it can also do “up to 90% of fundamental human movements.” (There’s a joke in there somewhere, I’m sure of it.) The U1’s…
02 Jul 2026
Sam Altman seeks new world order for AI as OpenAI slowly loses ground to Google and Anthropic
Tech stocks led declines globally overnight. The Nasdaq 100 closed down 1.54% yesterday. By contrast, the equal weight S&P 500 actually hit a record high yesterday—indicating that tech companies are the ones dragging down the broader index. “The main culprit has been another slide in chip stocks, with the Philly semiconductor index down -6.27%,” Henry Allen and his colleagues at Deutsche Bank…
01 Jul 2026
Anthropic restoring access to its most powerful AI models signals a necessary truce with the U.S. government
Anthropic has restored global access to Fable 5, two weeks after the Trump administration slapped export controls on the company’s most powerful AI model, citing security concerns.
01 Jul 2026
Nvidia built a nearly $5 trillion company by making people pay for their own lunch
Nvidia may be worth $4.8 trillion, but its employees still have to pay up at the company cafeteria. The chipmaker fueling the AI boom, led by CEO Jensen Huang, is the most valuable company in the world by market cap, towering above other tech giants like Google, Apple, and Amazon.
24 Jun 2026
Exclusive: Taktile raises $110 million from Goldman Sachs, Tiger Global to automate high-stakes financial decisions
Banks and insurance companies spend billions of dollars to employ staff to screen risky transactions, process claims, and onboard new customers. If these decisions go awry, there can be serious consequences. The AI startup Taktile aims to automate even these risky calls, and one of the largest financial institutions has decided to back the company. Cofounded by machine-learning engineers Maik…
