Elon Musk ditches CNBC interview at last minute, – Business News
Elon Musk postponed a stay interview Friday on CNBC simply earlier than it was set to start – leaving tech journalist Julia Boorstin hanging on air.
“We hope he will give us a new time for this interview. But we’ve just heard that he is postponing,” Boorstin stated on the stay show round midday Eastern Time.
The tech mogul was anticipated to debate Tesla, the blockbuster SpaceX initial public offering and the launch of the company’s newest Grok artificial intelligence model.
Elon Musk postponed a stay interview on Friday, leaving CNBC journalist Julia Boorstin hanging on air. Getty Images for Vanity Fair
SpaceX’s huge public itemizing has been of specific curiosity on Wall Street, and CNBC had hoped to offer its business viewers an inside look at the offering from Musk himself. The file IPO raised a complete of $85.7 billion after underwriters exercised the overallotment and minted Musk the world’s first trillionaire.
Musk’s AI outfit, SpaceXAI, unveiled its newest model, Grok 4.5, on Wednesday, amid a wave of product releases from competing labs.
OpenAI started rolling out its newest sequence of fashions, GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra and Luna on Thursday. Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta introduced the identical day Muse Spark 1.1, a model targeted on agentic work and coding. And late last month, the Trump administration lifted export controls on Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 fashions, permitting the Dario Amodei-led company to re-deploy its well-liked wares.
CNBC had been hoping to quiz Musk on SpaceX’s latest IPO. Bloomberg by way of Getty Images
SpaceX – which merged with xAI earlier this 12 months – started trading on June 12, debuting at $150 per share.
Earlier this week, more than a dozen brokers together with Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs issued enthusiastic “buy” rankings on the stock, in accordance with knowledge compiled by Bloomberg – estimating it might soar 47% on average from Monday’s closing price of $160.42.
The Post has sought remark from Musk by SpaceX.
