The SpaceX and Tesla CEO is by far the richest person in the world. Per the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, he is worth $668 billion. The second-richest person in the world, Larry Page, is worth $285 billion. Musk's wealth has soared by $49 billion since the start of the year, buoyed by SpaceX's high valuation and news of its merger with his AI startup, XAI.
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, whose company just released Gemini 3 to widespread acclaim, has made it clear where he stands on the issue. "The scaling of the current systems, we must push that to the maximum, because at the minimum, it will be a key component of the final AGI system," he said at the Axios' AI+ Summit in San Francisco last week. "It could be the entirety of the AGI system."
Despite the emergence of October sales events and December's strong sales performance last year, Black Friday remains the premier event for retailers. Last year, the NRF found that an estimated 197 million consumers, up from their initial prediction of 183.4 million, shopped during the five-day holiday weekend between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday. As this holiday shopping weekend maintains its crown as the tentpole event for consumers, retailers continue to react in kind, focusing a significant amount of their ad dollars around Black Friday.