Elon Musk’s $1 trillion pay fight — and other things to expect at Thursday’s Tesla shareholder meeting

For Tesla (TSLA) investors, the trillion-dollar day is almost here — and already sparks are flying before Thursday’s annual meeting in Austin, Texas, even before it begins. One big spark: Norway’s $1.9 trillion sovereign wealth fund, which holds a 1.2% stake in the carmaker, will vote against CEO Elon Musk’s new compensation package, one that […]

Big Tech’s rising AI investments show market bubble ‘still has a good ways to go’

Big Tech firms’ increasing investments in artificial intelligence show that even if the stock market is in a bubble, equities still have room to run higher before it bursts. Last week, Amazon (AMZN), Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL), and Meta (META) hiked their capital expenditure forecasts for their 2025 fiscal years, while Microsoft (MSFT) reported higher-than-expected spending […]

Alphabet is increasingly launching “moonshot” projects as independent companies — here’s why

Alphabet’s X moonshot factory is shifting how it brings ambitious technology projects to market, increasingly spinning them out as independent companies rather than keeping them within the Alphabet corporate structure, X’s head honcho, Astro Teller, revealed at TechCrunch Disrupt this past week. The strategy hinges on a dedicated venture fund that exists solely to invest […]