Boeing also said Tuesday that it it booked 136 orders and completed a lower-than-expected 47 deliveries in April.
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Sales climbed 10% as Boeing narrowed its losses from $31 million in the same quarter last year to $7 million this go-round.
Spending on newer military tech jumped more than 20% this year, feeding innovation like the device that helped rescuers find a downed aviator.
NASA is teaming up with a host of private companies to build a lunar economy ready to welcome humans to the moon’s inhospitable surface.
The space agency also said Tuesday that it is planning to build a new nuclear-powered robotic spacecraft to launch to Mars by 2028.
Beleagured Boeing won more plane orders in 2025 than rival Airbus for the first time in seven years but faces an uphill battle in deliveries.
Anthropic is insisting that its AI shouldn’t be used for surveillance or the development of automated weapons.
The rosy projections sent Boeing shares up more than 10% on Tuesday, rubbing salt in the wounds of its archrival Airbus.
In fact, Boeing’s been soaring through somewhat smoother skies ever since the calendar turned over to 2025.
The company, mired in too many scandals and setbacks to print, lost nearly $12 billion when all was said and done in 2024.
Future battlefields will be shaped by AI weapons that defense firms and Big Tech are vying to build for the military. Guardrails are lagging.
It was only last year that 737 felt like the number of scandals Boeing was embroiled in, rather than the name of its narrow-body aircraft.
The embattled aviation giant announced last week that it had sustained its best production levels in two years.
It’s basic Newtonian physics, as Boeing just learned: When the sky falls for a company, so, too, will the bottom line.
There were plenty of business losers in 2024, but only one for whom the sky was literally falling. In short: Boeing had a bad year.
Boeing is considering a sale of its space unit, among other assets. The news comes as its bottom line grows more tenuous.