Elon Musk postponed a live interview Friday on CNBC just before it was set to begin – leaving tech journalist Julia Boorstin hanging on air.
“We hope he will give us a new time for this interview. But we’ve just heard that he is postponing,” Boorstin said on the live show around noon Eastern Time.
The tech mogul was expected to discuss Tesla, the blockbuster SpaceX initial public offering and the launch of the company’s latest Grok artificial intelligence model.
SpaceX’s massive public listing has been of particular interest on Wall Street, and CNBC had hoped to offer its business viewers an inside look at the offering from Musk himself. The record IPO raised a total of $85.7 billion after underwriters exercised the overallotment and minted Musk the world’s first trillionaire.
Musk’s AI outfit, SpaceXAI, unveiled its latest model, Grok 4.5, on Wednesday, amid a wave of product releases from competing labs.
OpenAI began rolling out its latest series of models, GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra and Luna on Thursday. Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta announced the same day Muse Spark 1.1, a model focused on agentic work and coding. And late last month, the Trump administration lifted export controls on Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models, allowing the Dario Amodei-led company to re-deploy its popular wares.
SpaceX – which merged with xAI earlier this year – began trading on June 12, debuting at $150 per share.
Earlier this week, more than a dozen brokers including Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs issued enthusiastic “buy” ratings on the stock, according to data compiled by Bloomberg – estimating it would soar 47% on average from Monday’s closing price of $160.42.
The Post has sought comment from Musk through SpaceX.