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“Some big brands resumed spending on X in part to curry favor with the Trump administration, or to avoid potential retaliation by Musk,” said e-marketer analyst Jasmine Enberg,. “But fear is not a sustainable motivator, and most were spending less than they were previously.”She expects X’s ad business will rebound this year, but still be smaller than it was before Musk bought the company.

It’s not clear how well Musk’s rocket company SpaceX is faring because the private company doesn’t disclose its finances. That said, news headlines point to both troubles and triumphs.First the bad development, which came just this week with aof one of the company’s Starship mega rockets over the Indian Ocean. That followed explosions of two other Starships earlier this year that sprayed flaming debris across the Caribbean Ocean.

Undeterred, Musk is vowing several more tests soon but the stakes are high and the clock is ticking. NASA hopes to use Starship for future missions to the moon, including one next year that will attempt a lunar orbit and then send the four astronauts aboard back home.The good news is that investors who have gotten a peek at SpaceX’s finances apparently are excited.

A private financing round for the company a few months ago followed by a private sale of shares recently have reportedly valued SpaceX at $350 billion, a big jump from a $210 billion estimated value just a year ago.

Elon Musk, departs a lunch between President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the Royal Palace in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, May 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)Yet, there was the open-air popemobile driving through a Muslim-majority neighborhood of Bangui, a zone off-limits to Christians, with the pope crossing a line many feared amid a yearslong civil war.

An imam at his side, Francis removed his shoes, bowed his head and entered a mosque,people to “say ‘no’ to hatred, vengeance and violence, especially that committed in the name of a religion or God.”

The episode is being recalled by Catholics as they weigh the pontiff’s legacy throughout Africa, a continent where the faith is growing rapidly and where, unlike Francis, the priesthood leans deeply conservative.The airplane carrying Pope Francis lands in Bangui, Central African Republic, Nov. 29, 2015. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)