The euphoria only lasted a few days. SpaceX was propelled to a valuation of over $2,000 billion by a historic IPO. After this rapid rise, the stock of Elon Musk's group underwent a correction, reigniting questions about the sustainability of its stock surge. Behind the largest IPO of all time, Wall Street is looking to see if the company's fundamentals match its ambitions.
The advent of artificial intelligence is reconfiguring production structures but also shaking the very foundations of Western monetary and fiscal policies. With the rise of global automation, a major ideological divide now emerges between supporters of state centralization of technological infrastructures and advocates of a liberalized private capitalism. Today this dynamic is at the heart of global macroeconomic debates, with governments and major industry leaders seeking to anticipate tomorrow's employment imbalances.
La semaine dernière, SpaceX a fait son entrée en bourse avec une valorisation initiale de 1 770 milliards de dollars, avant de la dépasser largement. Cet événement ravive les espoirs des créanciers de FTX, l'exchange crypto fondé par Sam Bankman-Fried, qui détenait une participation indirecte dans la société d'Elon Musk avant sa faillite en 2022. Les victimes de Bankman-Fried pourraient-elles finalement récupérer bien plus que prévu ?
In a significant move, SpaceX pays $60 billion to acquire Cursor. Elon Musk's acquisition has the potential to completely change the ecosystem given the conflict with OpenAI and Anthropic as well as the effects on the cryptocurrency market. You'll want to learn more as AI enters a new era.
The IPO of SpaceX triggered a wave of activity on crypto platforms, with investors now seeking to gain exposure to the world's largest companies by bypassing traditional financial circuits. At the heart of this trend, Binance shows overwhelming dominance over derivatives products linked to Elon Musk's space giant, with volumes already comparable to those of the most popular cryptos on the market.
Exchange platforms had to review their operation around tokenized shares. Binance, Bybit, and Bitget refunded their clients after the failure of an allocation linked to SpaceX. This case occurs at a time closely watched by the crypto market, as Elon Musk’s space company attracts strong attention regarding its valuation and its pre-IPO access.
With the historic IPO of SpaceX, Elon Musk became the first individual to surpass 1,000 billion dollars of personal fortune, an unprecedented threshold that redefines the limits of wealth creation in the technological era. This case is much more than a stock market success. It traces the rapid rise of a company that has disrupted the global space industry and reveals the enthusiasm of the markets for new technological infrastructures.
SpaceX takes off on the stock market with 75 billion in the holds. BlackRock reserves its cabin for 5 billion. But does Musk's rocket really have the engines to go that high?
The most anticipated IPOs often have their first effects well before the opening bell. Regarding SpaceX, investor enthusiasm has not been limited to traditional markets only. Still not publicly traded, Elon Musk's group has already impacted the crypto ecosystem, where betting markets on derivatives that are supposed to reproduce the evolution of its capitalization have formed. This dynamic, which already mobilizes considerable amounts, shows the growing role of crypto platforms in anticipating major global financial events.
SpaceX burns billions, but Wall Street already rolls out an interstellar red carpet for it. Behind Musk's rockets, banks mainly sell an AI cathedral still on the drawing board.
A massive wave of $3 trillion IPOs is coming. OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceX... Investors are preparing to arbitrate, and bitcoin could be the first victim of this massive capital flight. Explanations.
SpaceX warns its future shareholders of a dilution risk. In an update of its IPO filing, Elon Musk's company indicates that it could issue a significant amount of new shares as part of future operations. A clarification that comes as the group multiplies strategic initiatives and prepares its arrival on financial markets.
Bitget has opened a new route into the SpaceX IPO narrative with SPCXUSDT, a pre-IPO perpetual contract designed for traders seeking early exposure to one of the most watched private companies in the world. The move does not give users actual SpaceX shares. It gives them a market instrument tied to expectations around a possible public listing, price discovery, and future valuation scenarios.
SpaceX holds 18,712 bitcoins valued at 1.45 billion dollars. The information appears in the IPO documents filed Wednesday by Elon Musk's company. This revelation ends speculations about the space group's crypto reserves and quietly places SpaceX among the largest institutional BTC holders in the world. It also revives discussions about the role of bitcoin in corporate treasuries, as markets closely watch the return of listed companies to crypto.
On June 11, SpaceX will set the price of its IPO, and this day could enter the history of financial markets. Between record valuation, direct exposure to bitcoin, and a rush of institutional investors, the operation orchestrated by Elon Musk is already causing rare excitement on Wall Street.
Elon Musk has chosen public confrontation with the French justice system. Targeted by an investigation over X and its artificial intelligence Grok, the American billionaire published insults in French directly aimed at the magistrates in charge of the case. Behind this new provocation lies a much bigger conflict between European authorities and digital platforms accused of algorithmic drifts, dissemination of illicit content, and political interference. Paris is now taking on one of the most powerful men in global tech.
For months, Elon Musk publicly attacked Anthropic. Today, however, the billionaire opens the doors of one of the most powerful supercomputers on the market to them. Behind this surprise agreement between SpaceXAI and the company behind Claude lies a reality that has become central in the AI war: dominance no longer depends only on models, but especially on access to GPUs, energy, and infrastructures capable of powering the next generation of artificial intelligences.
Wealth records rarely change scale. Elon Musk has just crossed an unprecedented milestone, with a fortune estimated at over $800 billion, a level no individual had reached since John D. Rockefeller in 1913. This rapid growth goes beyond a personal achievement, but it illustrates an unprecedented concentration of capital in the era of tech giants. Between historical rupture and excessive ambitions, this new threshold questions the ongoing economic dynamics and their global implications.
Tesla confirms its stance on bitcoin. In the first quarter, the automaker reports a loss of $173 million related to its cryptos, without modifying its reserves. Still exposed to 11,509 BTC, the company led by Elon Musk maintains an unchanged strategy despite market volatility, revealing the direct impact of accounting rules on results.
France summons Elon Musk for the investigation on X. He did not come. What implications for the crypto ecosystem? Analysis here.
The X case has reached a new level. What initially was a French investigation into Elon Musk's platform has now taken the form of a political showdown between Paris and Washington. The submitted text already highlights this rising tension around X.
With Musk, the stock market offers an orbital firework: rockets, satellites, billions and this question already scratching Wall Street, industrial genius or giant magic trick?
The debate about the future of money has reignited, and it's Nassim Taleb who lit the fuse. A few weeks before the launch of X Money, the author of the famous Black Swan openly praises Elon Musk's initiative and considers it "far smarter than Bitcoin." For him, this project exactly illustrates what finance should encourage: competition between private currencies.
Elon Musk has just officially announced the public launch of X Money for the month of April. The financial super-app he has promised for years is finally taking shape, but without any trace of crypto. Enough to surprise, and perhaps worry, some industry players.
Grok calls Musk a bald man with a micro-penis, Netanyahu a genocidal, and Starmer boring. Then the AI insults the Hillsborough dead. El pueblo unido, jamás será vencido? Not sure.
Elon Musk’s social platform X is moving deeper into financial services with the upcoming launch of “Smart Cashtags,” a feature designed to improve how users track and reference stocks and cryptocurrencies. While rumors have circulated for months about X entering the trading space, executives have made one thing clear: the platform will not execute trades. Instead, it aims to enhance financial data visibility and asset identification.
Two Democratic senators demand an urgent investigation into undisclosed Chinese investments in SpaceX. As Elon Musk has just merged his space giant with xAI for $1.25 trillion, Washington wonders: what if Beijing had already set foot in the most sensitive technologies of the United States?
The debate over online age verification intensified this week after Telegram co-founder Pavel Durov criticized Spain’s proposal to restrict social media access for users under 16. Spanish officials say the measure is designed to protect children online, but critics argue it could expand government surveillance and erode digital privacy. The plan has drawn particular concern from the public, who warn of broader consequences for anonymous communication online.
When Elon Musk's AI imagines itself as a scandal artist, French justice arrives. Grok draws too well... and especially where it shouldn't.
SpaceX has acquired xAI, bringing together two of Elon Musk’s most ambitious private companies. The deal links rocket launch services with artificial intelligence development at a time when computing demands are rising rapidly. Musk framed the move as a response to the limits of Earth-based infrastructure. Questions now follow about cost, strategy, and the long-term value for both businesses.