AST Spacemobile CEO Abel Avellan Jamel Toppin for Forbes On Wednesday, AST SpaceMobile announced a deal to provide cellular service from space to fill in coverage gaps for Verizon customers, starting in 2026. The agreement, which expands on a $100 million May 2024 deal, sent AST stock skyrocketing 9% Wednesday—making the Texas-based satellite cellular provider’s…
Topline Republicans are doubling down on their misleading claims that Democrats want to pay for free health care for undocumented people as a provision of their terms for ending the shutdown—with Elon Musk and other right-wing voices sharing a video of a CNN host grilling House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., about the political risks…
Topline X owner Elon Musk boosted posts on his platform from right-wing social media figures urging their followers to cancel their Netflix subscriptions over alleged comments made by Hamish Steele, the director of a discontinued animated series on the streaming service, about slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk. X owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk boosted…
Topline Jeffrey Epstein planned to host Elon Musk at his private island in the Caribbean, have lunch with tech billionaire Peter Thiel and have breakfast with Trump ally Steve Bannon, according to newly released documents—the latest to show the extent of Epstein’s ties to the rich and powerful. Tesla CEO Elon Musk attends the public…
If Alphabet pushed the rollout of its self-driving tech company even harder, Waymo could dominate a new market with the potential to generate more revenue than its ad business. Inthe summer of 2015, when veteran auto executive John Krafcik was recruited to turn Google’s Self-Driving Car Project into a new business unit for Alphabet, cofounders…
Topline The Trump administration will slash 300,000 employees from the federal workforce by the end of September, according to a new report revealing the total impact of the mass layoffs in the first year of President Donald Trump’s second term. President-elect Donald Trump greets Elon Musk as he arrives to attend a viewing of the…
Topline Elon Musk tried to get Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg on board for his unsolicited $97.4 billion offer to purchase the non-profit that controls OpenAI earlier this year, the ChatGPT maker claimed in court filings made on Thursday, in an unusual move that came just a year and a half after the two…
Welcome back to The Prompt. Elon Musk and Sam Altman speak onstage at the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit on October 6, 2015 in San Francisco, California, back when they were still friends. (Photo by Michael Kovac/Getty Images for Vanity Fair) Two of the most prominent names in AI, Sam Altman and Elon Musk have…
Topline Elon Musk said Tuesday his social media platform X is working to fix its AI chatbot, Grok, after it sided with rival tech chief and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in an ongoing dispute with Musk, who threatened to sue Apple on Monday night over allegations it favors OpenAI in its app store. The spat…
SpaceX has signed a first-of-its-kind deal with the Italian Space Agency (ASI) to fly Italian science experiments to Mars aboard its Starship rocket. ASI President Teodoro Valente announced that ASI will send its experiments on SpaceX’s first commercial Mars flights. The payloads will include a plant-growth module, a meteorology station and a radiation detector, which…