SpaceX IPO makes Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire, but your retirement fund is picking up the tab
Starlink is SpaceX’s cash machine, but the maths is getting harder
UK tech secretary vows to push pension funds into British AI startups
Altman, Amodei, and Hassabis are heading to the G7. The rivals have a lot to discuss.
Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp hit by a major Meta outage
Baidu’s Apollo Go robotaxi wins Level 4 approval in Switzerland
Meta is giving free AI glasses to every blind veteran in America
Thena Capital closes a £45M fund to back UK medtech, a first for an all-female GP team
Humanoid robot maker EngineAI files for a Hong Kong IPO
Mistral is in funding talks at a €20bn valuation
SpaceX rings the bell on its Nasdaq debut, and Musk admits he gave it ‘less than a 10% chance’
Agentjacking: a fake bug report can hijack your AI coding agent
OpenAI acquires Ona to run Codex agents inside the customer’s own cloud
Nvidia’s Vera CPU is its side door back into China
A SpaceX-Tesla merger was a fantasy. The IPO just made it look plausible.
Founders Fund put $600M into SpaceX. The IPO just turned it into $50bn.
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Irish fleet-safety firm CameraMatics raises up to €49M to take on Samsara in the US
Germany’s Vsquared is taking on Atomico and Balderton on their London home turf
Current’s $80M Series E values the neobank below its 2021 peak
The world’s top-selling robot vacuum maker is eyeing a Hong Kong IPO. It also wants to build a hypercar.
SpaceX raised $75 billion in the largest IPO in history. Japanese retail investors got $2.2 billion of it.
BlackRock ordered $5 billion in SpaceX shares as IPO demand hit $250 billion, nearly 4x oversubscribed
Meta signs its first India data-centre deal, leasing a 168MW AI facility from Reliance
Amazon’s UK investment passes £1bn in Northamptonshire with 4,000 jobs, and a floor full of robots
Salesforce acquires m3ter to add consumption-based billing to Agentforce
