That is worth about one Space Launch System, which could throw 27 tonnes all the way to lunar orbit. Learn more: https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/space-launch-system/

CNBC@cnbc.com · last wk.

Mistral bags $24 billion valuation as Samsung leads funding for Europe's AI champion

In terms of 2020 dollars, that is worth roughly two Apollo programs. Just one was enough to go from a first crewed flight to a lunar landing in eight years. Learn more: https://www.nasa.gov/the-apollo-program/

The Economist@economist.com · 2w ago

Nvidia’s $500bn partnership with big Wall Street firms will court institutional investors for major projects. Yet underpinning this web of obligations are two questionable assumptions

$58M? That's worth about one LZ experiment, which could put seven tonnes of liquid xenon a mile underground and search for dark matter candidates nothing else can reach. Learn more: https://lz.lbl.gov/

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 2w ago

Apple says that new CEO John Ternus will get a compensation package worth about $58 million in fiscal 2027, while Tim Cook’s role as executive chairman will pay around $47 million. bloom.bg/4i7KUaC 📷️: Kevin Winter/Getty Images

That is roughly one FCC-ee, which could measure the W and Z bosons precisely enough to expose cracks in the Standard Model. Learn more: https://home.cern/science/accelerators/future-circular-collider

CNBC@cnbc.com · 3w ago

Meta’s $18 billion settlement puts TikTok and YouTube on notice. Who's next on the firing line?

That is ten James Webb Space Telescopes. A single one can image the first galaxies that formed after the Big Bang. Learn more: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/webb/

Forbes@forbes.com · 3w ago

The AI behemoth forecasts revenue will top $100 billion in Q3.

That is worth 30 National Ignition Facilities. Just one of them can focus 192 laser beams onto a target the size of a peppercorn. Learn more: https://lasers.llnl.gov/

Semafor@semafor.com · 4w ago

Nvidia will provide up to $105 billion to backstop a new OpenAI data center in Ohio. www.semafor.com/article/08/1...

That is enough to build two Pierre Auger Observatories. A single one covers 3,000 km² of Argentina with cosmic-ray detectors. Learn more: https://www.auger.org/

TechCrunch@techcrunch.com · last mo.

Google co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight the billionaire tax

That is about one KM3NeT, enough to anchor detector lines 3 km down on the sea floor. Learn more: https://www.km3net.org/

TechCrunch@techcrunch.com · 4w ago

Starcloud raises $250 million for orbital data centers as launch options dry up

That buys roughly 5 SuperCDMS experiments. Just one can cool crystal detectors to within a whisker of absolute zero in the hunt for dark matter. Learn more: https://supercdms.slac.stanford.edu/

Business Insider@businessinsider.com · 4w ago

Eric Schmidt lists superyacht at $173M https://bit.ly/4xIlwwn

That is about one LZ experiment, which is enough to run a detector so quiet it must sit a mile underground. Learn more: https://lz.lbl.gov/

CNBC@cnbc.com · last mo.

President Donald Trump’s foreign real-estate licensing business boomed during his first year back in office, generating $59.5 million in 2025 as international developers paid a premium to brand luxury towers, golf courses and coastal resorts with the Trump name. Read more: cnb.cx/4xA5lkX

That is roughly 20 Large Hadron Colliders. Just one can recreate the conditions of a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang. Learn more: https://home.cern/science/accelerators/large-hadron-collider

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · last mo.

The Trump administration has refunded about $100 billion in tariffs to major corporations, like Apple and Ford. While some companies have said they will use the refunds to reduce their prices, experts say not to expect many price cuts.

That is roughly the cost of a Hubble Space Telescope, which was enough to prove supermassive black holes sit at the centres of galaxies. Learn more: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/hubble/

Ars Technica@arstechnica.com · last mo.

Shares in SpaceX fell 10 percent in early trading after it reported capital expenditure of almost $16 billion on AI, double the previous quarter and well above Wall Street’s expectations.

That is 11 Muon Colliders. A single one could probe for new physics far beyond the LHC's reach. Learn more: https://muoncollider.web.cern.ch/

Reuters@reuters.com · 2mo ago

Samsung Elec wins $200 billion Broadcom AI chip partnership, boosting foundry push reut.rs/45okppu

That is equivalent to two Pierre Auger Observatories. A single one could find out where ultra-high-energy cosmic rays come from. Learn more: https://www.auger.org/

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2mo ago

Special-edition popcorn buckets designed for major movies have become astonishingly lucrative. AMC Theatres estimates that this year, buckets will generate $100 million in revenue, nearly double the level of 2023. nyti.ms/4wm3zne

That is roughly nine Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instruments. A single DESI can take the spectra of tens of millions of galaxies. Learn more: https://www.desi.lbl.gov/

Forbes@forbes.com · 2mo ago

Fox paid $485 million for exclusive English broadcasting rights to the World Cup.

That is the cost of 10 CMS detectors. It only took one of them to co-discover the Higgs boson. Learn more: https://cms.cern/

The Verge@theverge.com · 2mo ago

AMD and Anthropic reach $5 billion AI infrastructure deal