World's richest man Elon Musk, who recently became the first person to be worth over $800 billion, is now on his path to becoming the world's first trillionaire, reportedly powered by rockets and not EVs. This is because the combined SpaceX-xAI entity led the recent surge in Musk's wealth. Musk's stake in the combined entity alone is worth $530 billion.

Electronics and IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw responded to Indian-origin Silicon Valley critic Deedy Das after he took a U-turn and praised Sarvam AI by calling its Indic language models the "best". "Even the most critical reviewers are praising...technologically advanced model released by Sarvam," he said. The AI startup was chosen to build India's first indigenous foundational model last year.

Indian-origin Silicon Valley critic Deedy Das has taken a U-turn on his opinion about Indian startup Sarvam AI after calling its flagship Sarvam-M, 24-billion-parameter open-weights LLM, "embarrassing" last year. "I was wrong...They have the best text-to-speech, speech-to text, and OCR models for Indic languages, and that's actually really valuable. The pricing is very reasonable," he said.

A senior Mondelez India executive said the company’s Oreo rollout focused on expanding distribution across retail and quick commerce platforms while targeting the premium cream biscuit segment. The executive said evolving consumer preferences, especially among younger buyers, are influencing product positioning and digital marketing strategies in India’s packaged food market.

Elon Musk's SpaceX has delayed plans to launch a trip to Mars to focus on its Moon mission, the Wall Street Journal reported. The space venture told investors it is targeting March 2027 for a lunar landing without astronauts on board. Earlier this week, Musk merged SpaceX and his AI start-up xAI into one entity worth $1.25 trillion.

Indian startups raised $130.5 million across 19 deals between Feb 2–6, up from $95.6 million a week earlier, signaling funding momentum. The Whole Truth led with a $51 million Series D round, while AI startups Vibrium and Mindcase also secured funding. Ecommerce bets extended to emerging brands like 1.5 Degree, Invogue, and CHINI, reflecting selective but improving investor confidence.

Sex offender Jeffrey Epstein offered a "tall, Swedish, blonde woman" to former billionaire Anil Ambani to "make it fun to visit", according to the recently-released Epstein files. Ambani replied to Epstein's offer in under 20 seconds, saying, "Arrange that." Epstein then joked that if Hollywood actress Meryl Streep represents Ambani's "proclivity", with Ambani responding, "Better taste my friend."

At UDGAM ’26 in Guwahati, twelve startups received grants of ₹4.5 lakh each, providing early-stage capital for product development, pilot testing and market expansion. The initiative strengthens Guwahati’s startup ecosystem, giving ventures runway to turn ideas into scalable businesses while boosting entrepreneurship and innovation across Northeast India, creating growth opportunities.

The value of Bitcoin jumped by over $10,200 (over ₹9.25 lakh) in just 20 hours as it once again rose above $70,000 (₹63.43 lakh). According to Bull Theory, the world's largest cryptocurrency has helped investors earn $304 billion (₹27,54,868 crore). This comes after Bitcoin erased ₹2 trillion (₹180,90,200 crore) in investor wealth as its value halved from its all-time high.

Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency Limited (IREDA) board approved a fundraise of up to ₹2,994 crore via qualified institutional placements. Fundraising will take place only to the extent that the shareholding of President or government does not dilute more than 3.76% of the post-issue paid-up equity share capital. Moreover, the fundraise is also subject to approval of the shareholders.