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Elon Musk on Monday pledged to award a share of SpaceX to every American child, part of what he has vowed as an effort to unleash “universal high income” through AI.
“Next year, I will give one of my SpaceX shares to every kid in America,” Musk said on X. “This will be the first of many.”
Musk, the world’s richest person, has lamented traditional philanthropy as ineffective, arguing that “it is extremely difficult to donate money at scale if you care about the reality of goodness, rather than the appearance of it.” He has said artificial intelligence will unleash a world of “amazing abundance,” calling for the government to issue checks to give people their cut.
He took SpaceX public this year — encompassing his artificial intelligence, satellite internet and social media businesses. The company’s shares were trading around $150 on Monday.
Musk made his commitment after rival AI company Anthropic on Sunday announced it would allot a portion of its shares to a public benefit fund on an ongoing basis.
Details on Musk’s pledge were thin. Musk appeared to say the SpaceX shares would be awarded through the investment accounts launched by the Trump administration earlier this year.
SAMARKAND, Uzbekistan — Secretary of State Marco Rubio denied that the United States paused intelligence sharing with Ukraine, rebutting earlier claims made by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky amid a sharp deterioration in relations between the two countries.
“I don’t know where he’s getting these things from or why he’s saying these things to the press. You should go back and ask him. There’s been no pause,” Rubio told reporters Sunday.
“What we want to be focused on is bringing an end to this war. That’s what he should be focused on,” he said of Zelensky.
President Donald Trump has called on Ukraine to halt attacks on Russian energy infrastructure, blaming the strikes for high diesel prices in the United States. Zelensky addressed growing tensions with Trump in an interview with NBC News on Sunday in which he said the United States briefly “blocked” intelligence sharing with his military.
Ukraine relies on U.S. intelligence to detect fast-moving Russian ballistic missiles fired on its cities.
When asked about Ukrainian claims that there were no early warnings of recent Russian attacks, Rubio said a “software problem” occurred “a couple of nights ago” that the U.S. European Command was looking into.
Writing last week’s five-part series about knees taught me many things, including that knees look amazing from the inside. (See my colleague Aaron Steckelberg’s glorious knee graphics.)
More importantly, I learned knees can remain intact and healthy lifelong — if we take care of them. I’m now using these four tips from the series to keep my knees healthy.
- Keep running. Howard Luks, an orthopedic surgeon and knee expert, reassured me running won’t ruin my knees. “Moving and using the knee aren’t wearing away cartilage,” he told me. “Movement nourishes cartilage.” At 63, he runs three or four time a week.
- Sit less. A study I covered found that four hours of daily sitting, not counting at work, increased the risk for knee arthritis by 25 percent. I was sitting to write this. I’m getting up now.
- Be cautious with ibuprofen. My go-to painkiller is linked to an increased risk for knee arthritis in some people with prolonged use, new studies show.
- Jump at the gym. I’m no spring chicken, barely a late-autumn duck, but Luks’s gym workout, with jump squats and jump-ups, inspired me. Last week, I tried my first box jump in decades. My knees approved.
The world’s oldest subway system is confronting one of the world’s newest forms of obnoxious behavior — passengers playing music or streaming shows so loudly that other travelers become a hostage audience.
British Prime Minister Andy Burnham announced an initiative Monday aimed at compelling audio scofflaws to put on headphones or risk being removed from Britain’s famous tube system and double-decker buses.
“We’ve all been on the train when someone starts blasting music or videos from their phone,” Burnham said. “It gets on your nerves and can quickly spoil the journey.”
Underground etiquette is not exactly the most pressing issue facing the British government, but polls show that at least 60 percent of voters see “headphone dodgers” as a scourge worth tackling.
The initiative will start with new public service messages urging riders to “share the carriage, not the noise,” followed by stepped-up enforcement measures including fines up to 1,000 British pounds (about $1,330) for “nuisance” behavior.
When the trendy Super Bowl pick Los Angeles Rams lost to the San Francisco 49ers in Week 1 in Melbourne, Australia, it was easy to blame jet lag. When they lost to the Denver Broncos in Week 3, maybe that was some bad luck on a controversial call. When they went down to the Buffalo Bills in Week 5, well, the Bills are a dangerous team.
But then, on Sunday, the Rams lost to the Arizona Cardinals (No. 24 in yards gained on offense, No. 25 in yards allowed on defense). It might be time to accept that this Rams team, now 2-4 and tied for last place in the NFC West, is just not very good.
That’s unfortunate because L.A. mortgaged the future for this year’s roster. It traded its 2026 first-round draft pick and three other picks to the Kansas City Chiefs for cornerback Trent McDuffie. And it sent Defensive Rookie of the Year Jared Verse, its ’27 first-round pick and two other picks to the Cleveland Browns for defensive end Myles Garrett.
This is the Rams’ preferred team-building strategy — the selection that netted Verse was the only time they used their own first-round choice since ’17, and they’ve made the playoffs every year but two in that span. But eventually that method stops working in the present, and then there’s not much to look forward to in the future.
In 2020, investigators were alerted to a strange shape on a satellite image of a remote Pacific island: An object they believed could be wreckage from the plane of legendary aviator Amelia Earhart, who vanished almost 90 years ago while attempting to become the first woman to fly around the world.
On Monday, an American team that went to investigate said the object was probably a collection of large trees that had mostly washed away.
“Unfortunately, we weren’t able to find that smoking gun,” Steve Schultz of Purdue University said in a video from the Nikumaroro atoll in the island nation of Kiribati.
Over the years, there have been many theories about the fate of Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan — from initial conclusions that their plane crashed into the ocean to the possibility they were captured by the Japanese.
Despite the lack of new findings, the team still supports a hypothesis that the pair crash-landed on Nikumaroro, then known as Gardner Island, where human bones — thought by some to have belonged to Earhart — were discovered in 1940.
Good morning. It’s Monday, Oct. 19, and I can’t wait to see the new Elizabeth Holmes documentary, even though it broke columnist Monica Hesse’s brain.
Today’s edition of The 7 briefing leads with the surprising House battlefields emerging ahead of the midterm elections. The political environment appears increasingly favorable for Democrats and grim for Republicans, meaning districts once considered locks for the GOP are suddenly in play.
The 7 also picks up two important world stories that developed over the weekend — President Donald Trump’s increasingly bitter feud with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and a night of widespread violence in France following protests on Saturday over the cost of living.
Further down, we take a look at emerging research showing that routine vaccines may protect your heart. And did you get the Sunday scaries last night? We have advice for dealing with nighttime anxiety.
Read today’s edition of The 7 here.
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