22 Jun 2026
Can reflecting the Sun buy time for net zero? A startup has raised $US75m to try
Private firms are making plans to cool the planet by releasing reflective particles high into the atmosphere, an approach known as solar geoengineering or solar radiation modification (SRM). With a war chest of private capital estimated at more than the entire globe's SRM research budget, the US-Israeli startup Stardust Solutions has unveiled a proprietary engineered particle it hopes to begin…
14 Jun 2026
Musk's trillions fuelled by AI and his pied piper power over investors
In 2010, around the time of Tesla's Initial Public Offering (IPO), an acquaintance proudly showed me his red Tesla Roadster, the first imported into Australia. It was a fine little rocket, the first electric vehicle of the modern era, discontinued in 2012 having provided the engineering and financial foundations for the Model S and, eventually, SpaceX.
11 May 2026
Apple's Tim Cook and Tesla's Elon Musk among top US CEOs to accompany Trump to China
Donald Trump and Xi Jinping will be meeting in China this week. ( AP: Andrew Harnik ) In short: Several top US executives including Tim Cook and Elon Musk will be going to China with US President Donald Trump. Mr Trump will be the first US president to visit China since 2017.
