Mars colony and Grok warnings: five strange details in SpaceX’s pitch to investors

IPO filing from Elon Musk’s company reveals look at finances, cosmic ambitions and insight into tech empire’s quirks

Number of air conditioned UK homes doubles to more than 4m in three years

Greater working from home and hot summer temperatures believed to be driving increase in ownership

The £24.3bn figure comes amid rising cost of pensions as bond market jitters take monthly debt interest to £10.3bn

Drivers conserve fuel amid Iran war uncertainty, pushing overall sales down 1.3% in April

Spending committee finds MoD most wasteful and also points to cancelled schemes such as Rwanda and Stonehenge

Burnham and Streeting’s latest stances confound caricatures of left and right as party faces electoral bind

Other lives: IT specialist in the oil industry who started out working as a geophysicist

Chancellor says she will raise tax on global oil firms to help meet costs of plans and confirms delay to fuel duty increases

Eli Lilly says participants in a sizable trial of retatrutide lost much more weight compared to other weight-loss drugs

Singer Skye Newman also highlights how becoming a performer is becoming inaccessible to those without money

Michael Thomson admitted to breaching a restraining order by selling a range of luxury items

Prime minister tells reporters he would campaign personally in the contest

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news

Telecoms company CEO says tech firms are buying up memory chips to power datacentres relied on by AI

Prospectus for tycoon’s sprawling empire reveals his plan to keep control – and ambition to colonise Mars