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Elon Musk, one of the world’s richest men, gave an insight into his Twitter ownership in a rare – and bizarre – interview with the BBC this week.

The test, capable of detecting Parkinson’s before the onset of symptoms, “launches a new, biological era in Parkinson’s research” and could pave the way for a cure, said researcher Kenneth Marek.

Alexandr Wang briefly became the world’s youngest self-made billionaire at 24 by supplying artificial intelligence companies with the one thing they all need: humans. Hundreds of thousands of them. Now his $7.3 billion startup Scale AI is primed to cash in on the biggest AI boom yet—unless someone else can do it better or cheaper. […]

Musk wants to transform Twitter/X into the “biggest financial institution in the world,”a bold ambition for the company now purportedly valued at $20 billion.

Holmes is expected to begin serving her sentence of 11 years and three months on April 27.

The value of bitcoin has risen more than 80% since the start of the year.

Australian grocery delivery startup MilkRun will reportedly close its doors, blaming economic conditions. Here’s what led to this moment.

Ben Francis started sewing his own workout gear as a 19-year-old college student and pizza delivery guy in 2012. Today he’s one of the world’s youngest billionaires

Many of the planet’s billionaires are poorer this year. Some lost their tenth digit entirely. It was another bad year for billionaires, with the war in Ukraine raging, inflation surging and the crypto bubble bursting. Nearly half the planet’s 2,640 billionaires are poorer than they were in 2022—but some fared even worse: 254 people dropped […]

Virgin Orbit, which laid off most of its staff last week, struggled to secure funding after a failed satellite launch from the U.K. in January.