Beyond Hype
The stock market’s romance with technological disruption has once again collided with an inconvenient reality: even the most visionary companies must eventually be judged by their ability to generate sustainable profits.
The stock market’s romance with technological disruption has once again collided with an inconvenient reality: even the most visionary companies must eventually be judged by their ability to generate sustainable profits.
SpaceX closed nearly 19 per cent above its IPO price on its Wall Street debut, pushing its valuation past $2.2 trillion and making Elon Musk the first person in history to reach trillionaire status.
The IPO pricing has reportedly increased Musk’s net worth to nearly $970 billion, placing him within reach of the trillion-dollar mark.
Elon Musk's reaction came to a report claiming that India's total fertility rate (TFR) has dropped below the replacement threshold of 2.1 children per woman for the first time in the history of the country.
The rapper took to X on Wednesday to ask for the return of its audio post feature. She addressed the request directly to Elon Musk with several choice words attached. The feature has been missing from the platform since early 2025.
OpenAI has launched GPT-5, its most advanced AI model yet, boasting PhD-level expertise and improved reasoning capabilities. Amid intense competition in the AI chatbot space, Elon Musk warned that OpenAI could “eat Microsoft alive,” following Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s announcement of GPT-5 integration across its platforms.
The exit of a much battered, and chastened, Elon Musk from DOGE was widely celebrated by his critics. Musk is a man with many epic successes and failures behind him ~ with an unblemished record of learning from his failures, and turning them into successes ~ all before you can say Jack Robinson.
The country that once dominated the global economy is now grappling with a severe debt crisis. The United States, with a GDP of $28 trillion, is burdened by a debt of $36 trillion.
Despite all the reverential mythification and mystification of Gurukul and studious, scholarly students, Plato’s academy and Socratic dialogue, literary representations of schools and teachers have often opted for satire, irony, humour and outright abrasive criticism.
Welcoming the EV giant in the country, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said that the company has arrived in the “right city and right state.”
