Elon Musk postponed a reside 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 mentioned on the reside present round midday Eastern Time.
The tech mogul was anticipated to debate Tesla, the blockbuster SpaceX preliminary public providing and the launch of the corporate’s newest Grok synthetic intelligence mannequin.
SpaceX’s huge public itemizing has been of explicit curiosity on Wall Street, and CNBC had hoped to offer its enterprise viewers an inside look at the providing from Musk himself. The document 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 mannequin, Grok 4.5, on Wednesday, amid a wave of product releases from competing labs.
OpenAI started rolling out its newest collection of fashions, GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra and Luna on Thursday. Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta introduced the identical day Muse Spark 1.1, a mannequin centered 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 firm to re-deploy its well-liked wares.
SpaceX – which merged with xAI earlier this 12 months – started buying and selling on June 12, debuting at $150 per share.
Earlier this week, greater than a dozen brokers together with Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs issued enthusiastic “buy” ratings on the inventory, based on data compiled by Bloomberg – estimating it could soar 47% on common from Monday’s closing worth of $160.42.
The Post has sought remark from Musk via SpaceX.