The Trillion-Dollar IPOs And Your $10,000 Investor Guide To SpaceX, Anthropic And OpenAI
Three of the most valuable companies in US history are asking investors for their money in a three-month window. SpaceX goes public on June 12, Anthropic filed its S-1 on June 1 and OpenAI is targeting September. The combined implied value of these three companies is around $3.6 trillion - roughly the size of the French economy. You have $10,000. Where does it go?
Could Ditching Your Smartwatch Make You A Better Runner?
New research reveals that focusing on the data and metrics provided by smartwatches is distracting runners from considering how their bodies really feel
The ChatGPT Selfies That Capture The Myth Of Neutral Technology
Ask ChatGPT for an image of itself and it produces a young woman in selfie-style framing sitting in her bedroom. Asked to explain why this self-image, it offered the following: "I don't have a fixed body, age, or gender unless one gets implied or invented for a particular interaction or image." This is a small-scale demonstration of the argument about the neutrality of technology.
AI Has Everything To Do With Information, But Nothing To Do With Truth
AI will give you a confident answer based on bad data. It won't tell you the data is bad because it has no way to know. At IIM Indore's CERE 2026 conference, the school's director Himanshu Rai put it plainly, “AI has everything to do with information, but nothing to do with truth.”
Adidas vs Nike And The Race To The Record Books
When Sabastian Sawe crossed the finish line at the 2026 TCS London Marathon in less than two hours he was wearing less than four ounces of foam, carbon fibre, and three years of materials science. The Adidas Adizero Adios Pro Evo 3 is more than a shoe, and now Nike is on the back foot.
5 Reasons Why OpenAI Could Be Tomorrow’s Forgotten Pioneer
In 1995, Netscape staged one of the most electrifying IPOs in Wall Street history. Within four years, it was absorbed by AOL for a fraction of its peak valuation. Now OpenAI is valued at somewhere north of $300 billion. The consensus, once again, is that we are in the presence of an inevitable winner. History suggests a little more scepticism is warranted.
Forget 30 Under 30. Apple Just Made the Case for 50
The new CEO of Apple, John Ternus is 50 years old. His predecessor, Tim Cook was also 50 when he stepped up to run the company. Is there an ideal age to move into the corner office?
Will the Music Business Always Be Too Human for Wall Street?
“I can’t think of an asset I’m more confident in being consumed over time..” Bill Ackman's Pershing Square Capital Management has launched a $64B bid to buy UMG - the company behind Taylor Swift, Kendrick Lamar, The Weeknd, Sabrina Carpenter, and roughly a third of all recorded music on earth. Is it a smart move?