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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, driving the rocket company's valuation above $2 trillion.
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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 …
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SpaceX raises $75B in the biggest-ever IPO, pricing 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.
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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.
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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
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How Chinese manufacturers are dominating the humanoid robot supply chain in pace and price, even as the industry struggles to find a purpose for such robots — China's lead in humanoid robots was evident at last month's Humanoids Summit, a robotics conference in Tokyo.Videos by Qilai Shen and Hiroko Masuike
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Companies with rising AI costs are increasingly using tools that tap cheaper models, including some from China, putting pricing pressure on OpenAI and Anthropic — Startups and tech giants alike are mixing and matching AI models to avoid the premium prices charged by industry leaders
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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.| Reuters: |
Sources: Nvidia has told Chinese clients that its new Vera CPUs for AI data centers could be available as soon as August and that they can begin placing orders — Nvidia (NVDA.O) has told Chinese clients that its new “Vera” central processors for AI data centres could be available as soon …
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New York City-based Current, which manages a consumer fintech platform, raised an $80M Series E at a $1.5B valuation led by Springcoast Partners — Current, NYC-based provider of a consumer fintech platform, raised $80M in Series E equity financing, at a $1.5 Billion valuation.
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Anthropic is blindsiding its business partners by launching potentially competitive products with little warning, changing its pricing model, lying, and more — Weeks before Anthropic in April revealed Claude Design, an AI tool for creating designs and software application prototypes … | Kanoko Matsuyama / Bloomberg: |
Memory chipmaker Kioxia replaces Toyota as Japan's largest company by market value; Kioxia's shares surged 7.6% on Friday, lifting its market cap above ~$274B — Memory chipmaker Kioxia Holdings Corp. replaced Toyota Motor Corp. to become Japan's largest company by market value …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: French startup Mistral AI is in talks to raise ~€3B at a ~€20B valuation; it was last valued at €11.7B during a funding round in September 2025 — French startup Mistral AI is in talks to raise around €3 billion ($3.5 billion) at a valuation of roughly €20 billion …
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| Christina Kyriasoglou / Bloomberg: |
Infineon plans to open a €5B chip factory in Germany backed by EU subsidies, its largest single investment, on July 2 as Europe seeks to boost chip production — Infineon Technologies AG is preparing to open its largest single investment, a €5 billion ($5.8 billion) … | Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Ted Cruz and Ron Wyden introduce the JAWBONE Act, which would let Americans sue US officials who try to coerce broadcasters or platforms into censoring speech — US Senators Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) today introduced the JAWBONE Act, a proposed law that could fuel lawsuits …
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| 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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| 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.| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Hyderabad, India-based Equal AI, which makes an eponymous AI-powered call screening app, raised a $30M Series B led by Prosus Ventures and Tomales Bay Capital — In India, consumers receive a lot of calls every day, ranging from spam and scams to delivery people and financial service companies trying to contact them.
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Xiaomi releases MiMo Code V0.1.0, an open-source AI coding assistant that it says outperforms Claude Code on agentic coding and software engineering benchmarks — Xiaomi's MiMo AI team has open-sourced MiMo Code V0.1., a terminal-native AI coding assistant that the Chinese electronics giant … Sponsor Posts
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