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June 12, 2026, 1:10 PM

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Alex Harring / CNBC:
SpaceX makes Nasdaq debut at $150 after pricing its shares at $135, giving it a market cap of $1.9T; Elon Musk becomes the world's first trillionaire  —  SpaceX shares soared on Friday as trading commenced on the Nasdaq, propelling the rocket company's valuation above $2 trillion, after a record-setting initial public offering.
Reuters:
SpaceX's trading debut will be a test of the “Musk premium”, the force behind Tesla's $1T+ valuation, and a gauge of investor appetite ahead of upcoming AI IPOs  —  SpaceX (SPCX.O) is set to begin trading on Nasdaq on Friday after investors poured $75 billion into the world's biggest IPO ever …
Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg:
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Cecilia Kang / New York Times:
Google sues Chinese cybercrime network Outsider Enterprise, accusing it of using Gemini AI to create fake websites and scam hundreds of thousands of Americans  —  Google warned that artificial intelligence had supercharged the problem of online scams.Andria Lo for The New York Times
Jaspreet Singh / Reuters:
Meta confirms that a widespread outage is affecting its services, including Facebook and Instagram  —  Facebook-parent Meta (META.O) said on Friday that users were having trouble accessing the social media company's services.  —  “We're aware people are currently having trouble accessing our services.
Luc Cohen / Reuters:
Sam Bankman-Fried loses his bid to overturn his fraud conviction and 25-year prison sentence over the collapse of FTX  —  Sam Bankman-Fried lost on Friday his bid to overturn his fraud conviction and 25-year prison sentence over the collapse of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange he founded.
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
Oracle warns customers of a critical PeopleSoft flaw after ShinyHunters claimed breaches of 100+ organizations using PeopleSoft; Oracle has not issued a patch  —  Oracle warned its corporate customers that there is a critical-rated vulnerability in its PeopleSoft software …
Christopher Dring / The Game Business:
Q&A with Xbox Chief Strategy Officer Matthew Ball about returning to console-exclusive releases, how using in-game ads could offset development costs, and more  —  ‘If Xbox can turn things around, the whole industry can,’ says Ball  —  Listen now on Apple, Spotify or YouTube
Kayla Cobb / The Wrap:
MrBeast hits 500M subscribers on YouTube, a record for the platform  —  The creator is the first to ever reach this milestone  —  MrBeast has broken yet another record.  Jimmy Donaldson, aka MrBeast, hit 500 million subscribers on YouTube Friday, becoming the first creator ever to reach that amount.
Kenneth Shepard / Kotaku:
Niantic Spatial says Pokémon Go data is “not part of” its deal with spatial AI company Vantor, after concerns that game data could be used for military drones  —  The company says it no longer receives data from the monster-catching app after Niantic was acquired by Scopely
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Sources: six months after acquiring Rivos, Meta is struggling to integrate the chip startup and halted development of a chip for training its largest AI models  —  Meta Platforms bought semiconductor startup Rivos last year to accelerate development of in-house chips and reduce its reliance …

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