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Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg:
SpaceX raises $75B in the biggest-ever IPO, after selling 555.6M shares at $135 each, giving it a market value of $1.77T  —  SpaceX has made history with the biggest-ever IPO, launching it into the top ranks of the largest public companies and putting founder Elon Musk on the verge of becoming the world's first trillionaire.
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: BlackRock put in an order to buy at least $5B worth of SpaceX shares; SpaceX received an over $1B request from a single family-office investor  —  Other large asset managers made similarly eye-popping requests  —  Elon Musk's SpaceX is preparing to stage the largest public offering ever …
Bloomberg:
Sources: SpaceX's IPO has attracted over $100B in orders from retail investors, who are expected to be allocated at least 20% of the available shares  —  Retail investors bidding for shares in SpaceX's initial public offering have submitted more than $100 billion in orders …
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Elon Musk is busy stoking far-right culture wars across the West on the eve of SpaceX's IPO, with an impunity unmatched in modern corporate history
Maxwell Zeff / Wired:
Anthropic backtracks on its decision to quietly limit Fable 5's ability to develop LLMs, saying “requests will visibly fall back to Opus 4.8”, after backlash  —  The company changed course after researchers spoke out against the policy, which would have covertly limited Claude's ability to develop competing AI models.
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: OpenAI is considering drastically lowering the prices it charges users for tokens in anticipation of similar cuts the startup expects Anthropic to make  —  The company might lower prices for tokens, the central unit for gauging AI costs, though the discussions are still in flux
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Europol says it has dismantled the AudiA6 crypto mixing service, which allegedly laundered $380M+ for ransomware actors and others between 2022 and 2025  —  Law enforcement has dismantled the “AudiA6” cryptocurrency service allegedly used by ransomware actors and other cybercriminals to launder more than $380 million.
Shahram Mokhtari / iFixit News:
A teardown reveals the Trump Mobile T1 is a gold-painted HTC U24 Pro but features some changes, including memory from Micron instead of SK Hynix  —  In case you missed it, there is now a Trump phone.  Yes, really.  And this week, we got to take it apart.  —  A couple of weeks ago I got …
Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch:
Waymo launches Waymo Premier, a $30-per-month membership program offering perks like skipping the line, 10% cashback, and five free ride cancellations per month  —  Waymo is launching a loyalty program called Waymo Premier, which will offer frequent robotaxi riders a number of perks in exchange for $29.99 per month.
Dan Primack / Axios:
Jeff Bezos' Prometheus, which is building AI models for physical tasks, raised a $12B Series B at a $41B valuation, following a $6.2B Series A  —  Prometheus, the industrial AI startup led by Jeff Bezos and former Google exec Vik Bajaj, today will announce that it's raised $12 billion in Series B funding at a $41 billion valuation.
Samantha Subin / CNBC:
DoorDash launches an in-app AI chatbot to let users order food and groceries and make reservations with photos and prompts  —  DoorDash is bringing artificial intelligence deeper into the user experience, allowing customers to order food and make reservations with photos and prompts.
A.J. Vicens / Reuters:
The FBI seizes 13 domains allegedly tied to fake consulting firms that sought information from US government and military employees for suspected Chinese agents  —  Federal authorities announced on Wednesday the seizure of 13 internet domains tied to what the U.S. Justice Department called …
Terrence O'Brien / The Verge:
Deezer launches an AI music detection tool for users of 20 services, including Spotify and Apple Music, after no company licensed its AI detection tech  —  Since the competition won't buy their tech, they're bringing it directly to users. … Deezer will now scan your playlists …
John O'Farrell / New York Times:
Former a16z GP John O'Farrell criticizes the AI industry and his ex-partners for spending hundreds of millions to fight regulation, calling it “a huge mistake”  —  I first came to America from Ireland in 1984, as a young engineer about to attend business school.
Seth Fiegerman / Bloomberg:
OpenAI acquires Ona, which offers cloud services to support AI agents, and plans to bring Ona's team into its Codex effort  —  OpenAI has agreed to acquire Ona, a startup that offers cloud services to support artificial intelligence agents, part of a bid by the AI developer to make its technology more useful for businesses.
Politico:
The US House fails to extend FISA's Section 702, ensuring the warrantless surveillance program will expire for the first time since its 2008 enactment  —  The extension was put on the House floor under a fast-track method requiring a two-thirds-majority vote, but it failed to garner even a simple majority …
Anissa Gardizy / The Information:
Sources: Anthropic signed 12+ initial agreements for direct data center leases, a first for the company, with Google potentially providing a financial guarantee  —  Anthropic is moving forward with a plan to control its own servers for developing AI, giving it the ability to cut its computing costs in the long run.
More: Reuters
Anna Wlodarczak-Semczuk / Reuters:
Polish lawmakers pass legislation imposing prison sentences of up to five years for “trash streaming” of violent crimes, gambling promotion, and more  —  Polish lawmakers voted on Thursday to crack down on so-called ‘trash streaming’, imposing jail terms of up to five years …
Bloomberg Law:
Digital Asset, which builds Canton Network, a public blockchain with privacy features, raised $355M, including $100M from a16z crypto  —  Blockchain builder Digital Asset Holdings LLC raised $355 million in a new funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz's main crypto fund …
The Verge:
Memo: Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and CCO Matt Booty warn of an “Xbox reset” over the next 100 days, citing annual revenue down nearly $500M over the past five years  —  The company has been preparing for the layoffs internally for weeks.
Hannah Webster / Bloomberg:
Apollo Global has built a risk assessment framework that categorizes software investments into 12 to 14 sectors to rank them by susceptibility to AI disruption  —  Apollo Global Management Inc. is assessing every new investment opportunity in the software industry for AI disruption risk …

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