Mr Musk, who wants to hurl data centres into space and colonise Mars, declared his ambition was nothing less than 'to make life multi-planetary' as he launched the New York stock market float.

Today’s Forbes Daily covers the long-awaited SpaceX IPO, OpenAI considers price cuts, Claude traffic surges, World Cup tax issues, Trump cancels Iran strikes and more.

The company offered 555,555,555 stocks at a price of $135 per share