Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai now tops the 2026 HSBC Hurun ranking of global Indians, with his firm worth $4.2 trillion.
Satya Nadella of Microsoft came second, and Alphabet's climb past Microsoft makes it the most valuable firm led by a global Indian. The ranking includes 236 people of Indian descent who head 200 firms based abroad, worth $15 trillion together, up 53% from 2024. For the first time, AI gets its own category, with 18 firms valued at $227 billion, and Cursor, at $60 billion, leads the startups.
Sachin Tendulkar has taken a non-controlling stake in Recykal, the Indian waste management technology firm.
His investment extends the $23 million round Recykal closed in June. The company will use the money to strengthen its tech platform, expand its Deposit Return System for packaging waste, and grow internationally.
Recykal's goal is to change the habits of a billion people, and Tendulkar said he was drawn in by how technology tackled a daily problem.
SpaceX plans to invest more than $74 billion across two AI supercomputing campuses, one in Texas and one in Arizona.
The Texas facility at Starbase, estimated at over $24 billion, will sit on about 444 acres near Brownsville and generate its own power off the public grid. The project has already created over 3,000 construction jobs.
The roughly $50 billion Arizona campus in Cochise County could scale up to 6 gigawatts, though it still needs county approvals. The Starbase city commission will weigh a property tax break for the Texas project on December 9.
