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SpaceX Plans Largest IPO Ever, Trading Starts June 12
SpaceX has filed its public prospectus with U.S. regulators, targeting a $1.75 trillion valuation and a raise of up to $75 billion, which would make it the biggest stock market debut in history, with shares expected to begin trading on Nasdaq around June 12.
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Nvidia Posts $81.6B Quarter, Holds $43B in AI Startups
Nvidia reported its largest quarter ever with $81.6 billion in revenue, but the more telling detail buried in the filing is that the company now holds $43 billion in stakes in privately held companies, nearly double what it held just three months ago, raising serious questions about whether AI demand is as independent as it looks.
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xAI Buys $2.8B More Gas Turbines While Facing Pollution Lawsuit
Despite being sued for illegally running dozens of unpermitted gas turbines near Memphis, xAI's IPO filing reveals it is committing another $2.8 billion to buy more of the same equipment, exposing a real risk that courts could shut down its AI operations entirely.
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IrisGo Launches AI Assistant That Learns Your Desktop Workflows
IrisGo, a seed-stage startup backed by Andrew Ng's AI Fund, Nvidia, and Google, has launched beta apps for Windows and Mac that watch how you work, record your workflows, and then repeat them automatically, placing it squarely against tools from Microsoft, Anthropic, and OpenAI in a desktop automation market that is crowding fast.
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OpenAI Files for IPO, Targeting September Debut
OpenAI is preparing to file confidential IPO paperwork as soon as this week, targeting a stock market debut by September 2026 at a valuation that could top $1 trillion, despite projecting heavy losses until at least 2029.
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Databricks Launches AI Agent Governance Controls in Unity Catalog
Databricks has extended its Unity Catalog data platform to govern AI agents, adding identity-aware access controls, spending limits, content guardrails, and a full audit trail, addressing a growing problem where companies are running thousands of agents with no central oversight.
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Google Launches Open-Source Runtime for Long-Running AI Agents
Google has released Agent Executor, a free open-source tool that keeps AI agents running reliably for hours or days without crashing, losing progress, or getting stuck, directly addressing the biggest reason enterprise AI agent pilots fail before reaching full production.
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AI Search Startups Are Raising Hundreds of Millions
Exa Labs and Parallel Web Systems have raised a combined $380 million in fresh funding as Google tears apart its traditional search product, creating a scramble among investors and startups to own whatever comes next.
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Boston Metal Raises $75M to Produce Critical Metals
Boston Metal, a US startup that makes metals using electricity instead of coal, has raised $75 million to keep its Brazilian plant alive after an industrial accident nearly ended the company, and is now shifting focus toward scarce metals like niobium and chromium that global supply chains badly need.
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Warp Oz Now Manages Claude, Codex Agents in One Place
Warp has updated its Oz platform to run and control multiple AI coding agents, including Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex, from a single dashboard, giving companies a way to govern automated software work without being locked into one AI provider.
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OpenAI Now Sells Reserved AI Access on Multi-Year Contracts
OpenAI has launched a program called Guaranteed Capacity that lets businesses lock in access to its AI services for one to three years at a discount, a sign that AI computing power is becoming scarce enough that companies may need to reserve it like a utility.
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Figma Launches Its Own AI Design Agent
Figma has added a built-in AI agent to its design canvas that can generate, edit, and bulk-update designs on command, a move that shows how the tools product teams use to build software are changing fast, even as Figma's own revenue accelerates.
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NanoCo Raises $12M to Sell Secure AI Agents to Enterprises
NanoClaw, a security-focused AI agent tool built in a single weekend as a safer alternative to the popular but vulnerable OpenClaw, has raised a $12 million seed round and is now targeting enterprise customers with hands-on deployment services.
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NVIDIA Launches Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion, a Faster Open AI Model
NVIDIA has released a new open-source AI model family that can generate text up to 4 times faster than comparable models, which matters directly to any business paying for AI services or planning to run AI on their own infrastructure.
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US Government Helps Kill Colorado's AI Anti-Bias Law
The US Department of Justice sided with Elon Musk's xAI to destroy Colorado's landmark AI consumer protection law before it ever took effect, and the state replaced it with a much weaker version, setting a precedent that any state trying to protect its residents from AI discrimination can expect a federal lawsuit.
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Alibaba Launches AI Chip and Model Built for Autonomous Tasks
Alibaba has released a new processor and AI model both designed to run complex, long-running automated tasks with minimal human input, signalling that the company is building its own end-to-end AI supply chain rather than simply replacing blocked US chips.
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Google Launches Gemini 3.5 Flash, Now Powering Search and Gemini App
Google released Gemini 3.5 Flash at its I/O developer conference today, making it the default AI model across Google Search and the Gemini app for over 900 million users, while also raising prices significantly compared to earlier versions.
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Google Launches Gemini Spark, an AI Agent That Works While You Sleep
At its annual I/O conference, Google launched Gemini Spark, a 24/7 AI agent that reads your emails, manages your calendar, and completes tasks on your behalf, raising real questions about how much personal data you hand over in exchange for the convenience.
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Ocean Launches AI Email Security Tool With $28M Funding
A startup called Ocean has come out of stealth with $28 million in funding to fight AI-generated phishing attacks, which have surged over 1,000% since 2023 and now make up more than 80% of all phishing emails.
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Google's AI Watermark Is Becoming an Industry Standard
Google's SynthID, a hidden mark embedded in AI-generated content, is now being adopted by OpenAI, Nvidia, ElevenLabs, and others, making it the closest thing the industry has to a shared system for telling humans and machines what was made by AI.
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