🗞️Elon Musk's "super app" push

...plus billions of passwords leaked and SpaceX explosion in Texas

June 19th, 2025

What happened today 🇺🇸,

  • Elon Musk’s X, formerly Twitter, will soon launch in-app investing and trading features, allowing users to manage their entire financial lives, including making investments and trades directly on the platform

  • A massive data breach has leaked 16 billion unique login credentials, including usernames and passwords, from major platforms such as Apple, Facebook, Google, and many others…this is the largest password leak in history

  • President Trump officially signed the Executive Order to extend the deadline for the sale of TikTok for another 90 days moving the new deadline to September 17, 2025

  • The White House said President Trump will make the decision on whether to strike Iran within the next two weeks

  • SpaceX’s latest Starship prototype, known as Ship 36, exploded in a massive fireball during preparations for a static fire engine test at the company’s Starbase facility in Texas, thankfully there were no injuries reported and there is no hazard to nearby communities

  • Texas Instruments announced they will invest over $60 billion into the U.S. to build and expand seven semiconductor manufacturing plants in Texas and Utah, they estimate this investment will create 60,000 jobs

  • The U.S. added more than 1,000 new millionaires a day in 2024, totaling 379,000 new millionaires for the year

  • In a survey done across 14 countries 39% of people said financial limitations prevented them from having a child

  • The stock market was closed today for the Juneteenth Holiday 

Bonus: A look at the world’s busiest airports

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