The tech magnate's net worth briefly reached $500.1bn on Wednesday afternoon New York time, before dipping slightly to just over $499bn later in the day, the Forbes' billionaires index reported. Alongside Tesla, valuations of his other ventures, including the artificial intelligence startup xAI and rocket company SpaceX, have also reportedly climbed in recent months. The milestone further cements Musk's status as the world's richest person, well ahead of rivals in the global tech sector.
Last October, the payments giant Stripe announced a blockbuster $1.1 billion acquisition of Bridge, a little-known startup focused on the dollar-backed cryptocurrencies known as stablecoins. Long a feature of the insular world of blockchain diehards, the technology had yet to break into Silicon Valley. But Stripe's acquisition, alongside the thawing regulatory environment under the Trump administration, has catapulted stablecoins into the mainstream.
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, scored a legal victory Tuesday when a federal judge in San Francisco dismissed a lawsuit accusing the Menlo Park tech firm of misleading users about its privacy practices to maintain its social media dominance. U.S. District Judge James Donato granted Meta's request for a summary judgment halting a trial that had been scheduled for November, according to Reuters. The ruling came after the court barred a key expert witness for the plaintiffs, effectively leaving them unable to demonstrate any damages.
Google is testing having the citations stick to the top (of the AI Overview section only) as you scroll down past the AI Overview. This keeps those citations more in view, as you scroll over the AI Overview. This was first spotted by SERPAlerts on X who wrote, "Google is testing out a sticky citations format on desktop for AI overviews, making it so the first citation stays with the user on scroll. Normally, AI overview citations remain stationary and will be scrolled out of view."
On September 13th, VMware advised the migration would take place between the 19th and 21st, and that the upgrade process would mean the existing VMware Cloud Services Portal became read-only. On the last day of the planned migration VMware wrote to customers "to inform you that the anticipated transition of the VMware Cloud Services Portal to the new Cloud Services Console on Broadcom will not be going live on September 21 as originally communicated."
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday signed a law that aims to prevent people from using powerful artificial intelligence models for potentially catastrophic activities like building a bioweapon or shutting down a bank system. The move comes as Newsom touted California as a leader in AI regulation and criticized the inaction at the federal level in a recent conversation with former President Bill Clinton.
Linus Torvalds is the first to admit that there have been more exciting Linux kernel releases. He announced the release of the 6.17 Linux kernel by writing, "It's not exciting, which is all good. I think the biggest patch in there is some locking fixes for some Bluetooth races that could cause use-after-free situations. Whee -- that's about as exciting as it gets."
For developers considering the leap from Claude Code to Codex CLI, this shift represents more than just a change in tools, it's a rethinking of how you approach workflows, task execution, and even problem-solving. With its impressive 272K token context window and open source adaptability, Codex CLI offers a tantalizing glimpse into what's possible. But before you make the switch, it's essential to understand the trade-offs and challenges that come with this upgrade.
It's a debit card that lets users decide whether to pay upfront or make payments over time, all managed through the Affirm app. In the recent earnings, Affirm card GMV more than doubled, up 132% to $1.2 billion. Active cardholders nearly doubled, reaching 2.3 million, and in-store spend increased by 187%. These are beyond just signs of adoption; more like Affirm turning its card into a core payments habit.
Most of the kit that crossed Tex's desk was mundane and uninteresting, but the job was a foot on the ladder and never more so than the day he was asked to inspect an incoming batch of motherboards. "That excited me because I would finally be working with something technical," he told On Call. Tex was one of a few staff asked to run an eye over the motherboards, and a manager made sure they were ready for the job by staging a quick training
Intuitive, a medtech giant with over 13,000 employees globally, says it is temporarily pausing offers to candidates who require H-1B visas. It's a clear indication that the White House's new $100,000 H-1B fee policy, announced less than a week ago, is having a real impact on tech hiring - and not just on cash-strapped startups. Intuitive, based in Sunnyvale, California, has a market cap of over $150 billion. It generated over $8 billion in revenue last year and is an S&P 500 member. It's best known for its da Vinci robots, which perform minimally invasive surgeries.
Elon Musk once stated that no one ever changed the world working just 40 hours a week. This was something that is openly known among his companies. They have the potential to change the world, but they require a lot of hours. SpaceX's working environment was recently criticized by Chris Kemp, the chief executive officer of Astra. During some remarks at the Berkeley Space Symposium 2025 earlier this month, Kemp shared some sharp remarks about the Elon Musk-led private space enterprise.
The , conducted by UC San Diego Health and Censys researchers, found that phishing-related cybersecurity training programs had no effect on whether or not employees were duped by phishing emails. After analyzing the results of 10 different phishing email campaigns sent to over 19,500 employees at UC San Diego Health over eight months, the researchers found "no significant relationship between whether users had recently completed an annual, mandated cybersecurity training and the likelihood of falling for phishing emails."
Microsoft Bing is testing colorful lines and separator sections in the Bing Search results. The colors are in blue, orange and gray (and maybe more). Bing Search Ads With Free Shipping Text Attributes Microsoft is testing showing text attributes that can say things like "Free Shipping on Qualified Orders" with an icon next to the search ads on Bing Search. This is not just the CTA buttons that these ads have supported for a while but additional text attributes.
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