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| Alex Harring / CNBC: |
SpaceX debuts on the Nasdaq at $150, after pricing at $135, making Elon Musk the world's first trillionaire; SPCX is up ~30% intraday, for a ~$2.3T market cap — SpaceX shares soared on Friday as trading commenced on the Nasdaq, propelling the rocket company's valuation above $2 trillion …
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| Reuters: |
SpaceX's trading debut is a test of the “Musk premium”, the force behind Tesla's $1T+ valuation, and a gauge of investor appetite ahead of upcoming AI-tied 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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| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
Google sues Chinese cybercrime network Outsider Enterprise, accusing it of using Gemini 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| 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.
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| Jaspreet Singh / Reuters: |
Meta confirms it is working to fix a widespread outage, starting at 9:20am ET, that 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.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
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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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
Oracle warns customers of a critical PeopleSoft flaw after ShinyHunters claimed it breached 100+ organizations that use PeopleSoft; Oracle hasn't issued a patch — Oracle warned its corporate customers that there is a critical-rated vulnerability in its PeopleSoft software … | The Information: |
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 … | 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.| The Information: |
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 … | 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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| FinSMEs: |
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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| 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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| Maxwell Zeff / Wired: |
A profile of former Google DeepMind employee Thibault Sottiaux, now OpenAI's head of core products tasked with combining ChatGPT and Codex into a super app — Thibault Sottiaux helped make AI coding one of OpenAI's fastest-growing businesses. Now he's overseeing a sweeping overhaul of ChatGPT.
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| Seth Fiegerman / Bloomberg: |
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| New York Times: |
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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| 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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| 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 …
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| 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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