Starship’s Fuel Handoff: SpaceX Masters In-Orbit Propellant Transfer
Two Starship vehicles met in orbit this week and did something no pair of spacecraft had done before at this scale: one passed roughly 100 metric tons of supercooled liquid…
xAI’s $6 Billion Raise: Musk’s AI Lab Valued at $40 Billion
Elon Musk’s artificial-intelligence company has a new price tag. xAI said it closed a $6 billion Series C round that values the firm at $40 billion, with Fidelity and Valor…
Arm Tops $300 Billion as SoftBank’s Bet Comes Full Circle
The number that had been building for months finally arrived on Thursday. Arm Holdings crossed the $300 billion market-capitalization threshold for the first time, closing in on its highest valuation…
Starship V3’s First Flight Stalls on a Stuck Hydraulic Pin
The countdown reached the final minutes and then stopped. SpaceX’s Starship V3, the largest rocket the company has ever rolled to a pad, was scheduled for its first flight Thursday…
Moonshot AI Unwinds Its Offshore Structure to Chase a Hong Kong IPO
The holding company is coming down. Moonshot AI, the Chinese artificial-intelligence startup behind the Kimi assistant, has notified shareholders that it plans to dismantle its variable-interest-entity and red-chip structure, according…
SpaceX Files Reveal a 10-Gigawatt Solar Factory in Texas
The permit applications landed in Bastrop County’s records office weeks before anyone noticed them, and they describe something no rocket company has built before: a solar manufacturing plant with 10…
OpenAI’s First-Quarter Revenue Hits $5.7 Billion
The number circulating through the AI industry this week: OpenAI generated roughly $5.7 billion in revenue in the first quarter of 2026, according to The Information, citing two people with…
A Founding Member of OpenAI Joins Anthropic
The post was one sentence long and took an hour to reach nearly three million views. “Personal update: I’ve joined Anthropic,” Andrej Karpathy wrote on X this week, ending months…
Oura Files Confidentially for IPO at $11 Billion Valuation
The ring that tracks sleep, heart rate and recovery is heading to public markets. Oura, the Finnish-American company behind the Oura Ring, has confidentially submitted a draft registration statement to…
Lenovo Posts a Record Year and Sets Its Sights on $100 Billion
The target was stated plainly, with the confidence of a company that just finished its best year ever. Lenovo’s chairman and chief executive, Yuanqing Yang, said Friday that the company…
