Elon Musk offers to help rescue operation for Thai boys and football coach July 7, 2018 Billionaire Tesla boss Elon Musk said today that there has been some "good feedback" from cave experts following his offer to send engineers to Thailand in a bid to help rescue 12 boys and their football coach from a flooded cave. Musk tweeted this morning: "Some good feedback from cave experts in Thailand. Iterating with [...]
Nasa opens International Space Station to tourists from 2020 June 8, 2019 Nasa will allow tourists to visit its International Space Station from 2020. The US space agency announced it would open the station up to tourism and other business ventures. Read more: Elon Musk’s SpaceX has raised more than £1bn in six months It will cost each person $35,000 (£27,500) per night to stay there. The [...]
Sir Richard Branson set to launch Virgin Galactic float on Monday October 24, 2019 Sir Richard Branson has announced that he is planning to float his space venture Virgin Galactic on the New York Stock Exchange on Monday. Branson said he hoped to be there to ring the bell himself as his space flight company becomes the first to go public next week. Read more: Boeing invests $20m in [...]
Tesla shares have been suspended following Elon Musk’s tweets on taking company private | City A.M. August 7, 2018 Tesla shares were suspended yesterday evening following a string of tweets by billionaire founder Elon Musk in which he said he was considering taking the company private, leading to a share price spike. Tesla shares came to a halt up 7.39 percent at $367.25. Musk raised eyebrows when he took to Twitter to claim he [...]
Is Skynet coming? April 28, 2020 This week I saw yet another headline ‘Skynet is near – Google scientists create Artificial Intelligence that evolves on its own” intimating that some sort of humanity destroying AI system is not only an inevitability but on the cusp of reality. Icons such as Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk have long proclaimed the end of [...]
Elon Musk’s SpaceX successfully ‘reflights’ its Falcon 9 ‘Block 5’ rocket | City A.M. August 7, 2018 Elon Musk’s aerospace company Space X has successfully launched one of newest Falcon 9 rockets back into space for the second time, in the early hours of the morning US time. The Falcon 9 ‘Block 5’ rocket is designed to be able to go into space and return 100 times, while heat shields and other [...]
Elon Musk hit by fresh lawsuits over Tesla share price rigging claims | City A.M. August 11, 2018 Tesla and its billionaire chief Elon Musk were hit by two new lawsuits yesterday, over claims that Musk’s surprise proposal to take the company private was scheme designed to target short-sellers of Tesla stock. Musk announced on Twitter earlier this week that he was considering taking the electric carmaker private at a share price of [...]
Alastair Stewart should take comfort in the reaction of his friends and fans February 6, 2020 Last week this column made way for my interview with Sadiq Khan, so I didn’t have the chance to write about the outrageous treatment of broadcaster Alastair Stewart. In the week since, the veteran journalist has maintained a dignified silence, but the chorus of support from friends, colleagues and strangers has grown ever louder. To recap, [...]
Tesla pledges a return to black as profitability fails to materialise April 25, 2019 A return to profit escaped Tesla chief Elon Musk for a second consecutive quarter last night. The electric car maker reported a widening $494m (£382.5m) loss after a record drop in deliveries. Tesla posted a deficit per share of $2.90 for the first three months of 2019, compared to the average analyst estimate of a [...]
Dominic Cummings is behind Number 10’s new startup-mindset August 8, 2019 “What we want to hear is their conquer the world strategy,” said Scott Kupor, managing partner of American venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. Kupor was talking about wannabe entrepreneurs knocking on the company’s Sand Hill Road door in California and looking to become the next Twitter, Lyft, or Airbnb. If Boris Johnson’s right-hand man Dominic [...]