SpaceX Raises $75 Billion in History’s Largest IPO, Making Elon Musk the World’s First Trillionaire Bloomberg / CNBC / The Verge SpaceX debuted on the Nasdaq under ticker SPCX on June 12, pricing 555.6 million shares at $135 each and raising $75 billion on demand more than four times oversubscribed. Shares surged over 25% intraday, pushing Musk’s net worth past $1 trillion — the first human to cross that threshold — capping what analysts are calling the hottest IPO summer in a generation.

🚀 Markets & Milestones

SpaceX IPO Raises $75 Billion in Biggest Debut of All Time — Bloomberg

SpaceX priced its historic IPO at $135/share, raising $75 billion and listing on the Nasdaq and Nasdaq Texas under ticker SPCX. Shares hit an intraday high of $168.75, pushing Elon Musk’s net worth to approximately $1.18 trillion — nearly twice the wealth of the world’s previous second-richest person. The round values SpaceX at roughly $1.75 trillion, cementing it alongside Anthropic and OpenAI in what TechCrunch has dubbed “MANGOS” IPO summer.

Oracle shares tumble 11% on increased capital raise, cash concerns — CNBC

Oracle surprised investors with a planned additional $20 billion capital raise and posted negative free cash flow for the year, despite a Q4 revenue beat. Capital expenditures jumped 162% to $55.7 billion as its AI infrastructure buildout accelerates, raising investor questions about the path to profitability.

🤖 AI Labs & Models

Anthropic backtracks on policy that ‘sabotaged’ researchers’ work — Engadget

Anthropic has reversed a controversial and undisclosed policy after researchers discovered that Claude Fable 5 was silently rerouting certain requests — including training competing models, debugging AI code, and optimizing neural architectures — to the older Opus 4.8 model. The behavior consumed tokens and money without user knowledge, and raised serious concerns about Anthropic’s transparency with its own customers. The company is now making these content-routing safeguards visible in its documentation.

Jeff Bezos’s Prometheus raises $12B to build an ‘artificial general engineer’ — TechCrunch

Bezos’s physical AI startup Prometheus has closed a $12 billion round at a $41 billion valuation, aiming to build AI tools that automate the design and manufacture of physical products — from chips to spacecraft. The startup’s stated goal is an “artificial general engineer” that compresses the physical invention loop, with potential synergies across Blue Origin and other Bezos ventures.

OpenAI Acquired Ona for Long-Running Agents — OpenAI

OpenAI is acquiring Ona to bring secure cloud execution and orchestration into the Codex platform, enabling persistent, customer-controlled environments where agents can continue working across extended periods and sessions.

Mistral is rumored to be raising €3B at €20B valuation — TechCrunch

The French AI lab is reportedly in talks for a round that would value it at €20 billion ($23B), nearly double its Series C valuation of €11.7 billion, as competition among frontier European models intensifies.

Siri is good now?? — The Verge

Apple’s revamped Siri has started impressing early reviewers after years of underperformance. Craig Federighi says the new Siri is explicitly designed not to be sycophantic, in contrast to ChatGPT and similar assistants — knowing when to stay quiet rather than fill silence.

🛡️ Security & Policy

Google sues alleged Chinese cybercrime operation that used AI to send scam texts — TechCrunch

Google has filed suit against a group called “Outsider Enterprise,” accusing it of using AI to send 2.5 million fraudulent text messages to hundreds of thousands of victims over just two weeks. The lawsuit is one of the first major legal actions targeting AI-assisted mass-scale SMS fraud infrastructure.

New York wraps 2026 session with seven AI bills sent to governor — Transparency Coalition

New York legislators passed seven AI-related bills including a kids chatbot safety measure, an AI training data transparency act, the FAIR News Act, a data center moratorium, and a ban on AI-assisted surveillance pricing. All now await Governor Hochul’s signature.

SkillSpector — NVIDIA

NVIDIA open-sourced SkillSpector, a tool that scans AI agent skills for security vulnerabilities before installation.

🛠️ Developer Tools & Open Source

Xiaomi’s MiMo Code beats Claude Code at ultra-long, 200+ step tasks — VentureBeat

MiMo Code V0.1.0 is a terminal-native, MIT-licensed AI coding agent from Xiaomi that outperforms Claude Code on long-horizon agentic coding benchmarks, particularly tasks requiring 200+ steps. Its standout feature is a cross-session memory system that uses an independent subagent to continuously log decisions, issues, and project scope — maintaining context across sessions without context-window limits. Available now on GitHub.

Homebrew 6.0.0 — Homebrew

The major release ships a tap trust security mechanism (taps must now be explicitly trusted before any code is run), a new default internal JSON API, Linux sandboxing, and initial macOS 27 support. The trust model is the most significant security improvement in Homebrew’s history.

Software Is Made Between Commits — Zed

Zed’s DeltaDB records every operation and agent conversation between commits, giving each change a stable identity and enabling conflict-free replicated worktrees for multi-user and multi-agent editing — making the full history of why code exists traceable.

Formal methods and the future of programming — Jane Street

Jane Street explains its investment in a formal methods team: AI agents generate code faster but with subtler bugs and missed invariants, making machine-checked proofs an increasingly attractive quality gate and feedback signal for agent-assisted development.

☁️ Cloud & Infrastructure

Anthropic Claude Fable 5 on AWS: Mythos-class capabilities now available — AWS

Claude Fable 5 is now available on Amazon Bedrock in US East (N. Virginia) and Europe (Stockholm). The model automatically routes potentially harmful prompts in cybersecurity, biology, and chemistry to Claude Opus 4.8, and access requires opting into a 30-day data retention and human review policy — directly related to the transparency controversy reported above.

How We Moved Discord Voice to the Edge — Discord

Discord migrated over 80% of its voice and video traffic from traditional cloud providers to Cloudflare’s 300+ city network, cutting ping by up to 34% and packet loss by 42% in key regions after a year-long migration involving custom infrastructure for Cloudflare’s ephemeral container architecture.

Now available: Amazon EC2 M9g instances powered by AWS Graviton5 — AWS

The M9g and M9gd instances deliver up to 25% better compute performance than Graviton4 and ship with the formally verified Nitro Isolation Engine as an always-on feature.

How formal verification makes AWS Nitro the first formally verified cloud hypervisor — Amazon Science

AWS Nitro’s new Isolation Engine ships with 330,000 lines of machine-checked proofs covering confidentiality, integrity, functional correctness, and memory safety — the first cloud hypervisor to carry formal mathematical guarantees of VM isolation.

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