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SpaceX began trading Friday on the Nasdaq under ticker SPCX after raising $75 billion at $135 per share, valuing Elon Musk's rocket and AI company at $1.77 trillion in the largest IPO on record.
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OpenAI identified two clusters of ChatGPT accounts likely based in China that were used to push narratives against U.S. data centers and AI policy, as Texas and Congress separately grapple with data center regulation and surveillance authority.
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Oracle has issued emergency mitigations for a critical PeopleSoft zero-day, CVE-2026-35273, with a CVSS score of 9.8, after the ShinyHunters extortion gang exploited the flaw to steal data from more than 100 organizations across over 300 breached instances.
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President Trump nominated former SEC Chairman Jay Clayton as permanent director of national intelligence on Thursday, hours after the House voted 198–218 to block a short-term extension of Section 702 of FISA, allowing the foreign surveillance authority to expire Friday.
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The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on Thursday that private plaintiffs cannot sue under the Investment Company Act of 1940 to void fund bylaws, reversing a lower court victory for activist hedge fund Saba Capital and siding with funds affiliated with BlackRock and other asset managers.
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DoorDash launched Ask DoorDash, an AI chatbot that lets users order food, shop for groceries, and book reservations using photos and prompts, as the delivery platform races to keep pace with AI-driven competitors Uber and Instacart.
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SpaceX is set to debut on the Nasdaq this Friday under the ticker "SPCX," four times oversubscribed but presenting what one veteran options trader calls the biggest hedging challenge in nearly three decades, with no publicly traded peers and options trading not beginning until June 16.
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Major AI laboratories are engaging directly with state legislatures to shape emerging technology regulations, even as they publicly call for a unified federal standard, reflecting the industry's growing impatience with congressional inaction.
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The House is set to vote Thursday on a measure extending Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act through July 2, as a bipartisan standoff over Trump's pick of Bill Pulte as acting director of national intelligence threatens to let the surveillance law expire.
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AI Financial Corp., formerly Alt5 Sigma, says it has "substantially mitigated" the going-concern risks flagged in May, but its stock remains at 65 cents — below Nasdaq's $1 minimum — after a 92% decline tied to its $1.5 billion bet on a Trump family-backed cryptocurrency.
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Autonomous EV freight trucking company Einride surged as much as 90% on its Nasdaq debut Wednesday after completing a SPAC deal that valued the company at $1.35 billion, down from an original $1.8 billion target set in November.
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Meta Platforms will lease a 168 MW AI-enabled data center in India from Reliance Industries, with the Jamnagar facility set to be delivered within two years and accompanied by nearly 1 GW of renewable energy partnerships.
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Super Micro Computer shares dropped 9% in after-hours trading Tuesday after the company announced $7 billion in equity-related financing deals, even as it disclosed $39 billion in AI server orders from more than 20 customers.
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Rivian has begun delivering its R2 SUV to reservation holders and pulled the timeline for its $45,000 entry-level model forward to next summer, as the company bets on high-volume sales to achieve profitability.
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The Trump family was entitled to roughly $500 million from a 2025 crypto deal with Alt5 Sigma, while the company — now called AI Financial Corp. — has lost more than 90% of its stock value and warned it may not survive as a going concern.
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Thoma Bravo founder Orlando Bravo declared the "SaaSpocalypse" over at a Berlin private equity conference, saying AI now accounts for roughly 50% of new revenue across his firm's software portfolio companies, which together generate $35 billion in combined annual revenue.
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CISA has ordered federal agencies to patch a critical Check Point VPN authentication-bypass flaw, CVE-2026-50751, by June 11 after Qilin ransomware affiliates exploited it as a zero-day against dozens of organizations worldwide.
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Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas confirmed a 2028 IPO target, calling the timeline firm regardless of how the market receives upcoming listings from OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceX.
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