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SpaceX raises $75B in the biggest-ever IPO, after selling 555.6M shares at $135 each, giving it a market value of $1.77T (Bailey Lipschultz/Bloomberg)

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Polish lawmakers pass legislation imposing prison sentences of up to five years for "trash streaming" of violent crimes, gambling promotion, and more (Anna Wlodarczak-Semczuk/Reuters)

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Some investors question SpaceX's projected $1.77T valuation, citing its $4.3B loss on $4.7B in revenue in Q1, concerns over space data centers, and more (New York Times)

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Former a16z GP John O'Farrell criticizes the AI industry and his ex-partners for spending hundreds of millions to fight regulation, calling it "a huge mistake" (John O'Farrell/New York Times)

Former a16z GP John O'Farrell criticizes the AI in...

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Coinbase launches an AI agent that can execute trades and pay for premium research; users can give it access to their main account or have it operate separately (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

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Europol says it has dismantled the AudiA6 crypto mixing service, which allegedly laundered $380M+ for ransomware actors and others between 2022 and 2025 (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

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Sources: Anthropic signed 12+ initial agreements for direct data center leases, a first for the company, with Google potentially providing a financial guarantee (Anissa Gardizy/The Information)

Sources: Anthropic signed 12+ initial agreements f...

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PhoenixAI, formerly CelerData, which is building what it calls an agentic AI-ready analytical database, raised an $80M Series B led by Sky9 (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)

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Barcelona-based Theker, which is building AI-powered robots for industrial environments, raised $85M led by CRV, with Samsung, LVMH, and others participating (Reuters)

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Waymo launches a $30 per month membership program called Waymo Premier, with perks including 10% cashback and five free ride cancellations per month (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)

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Sources: BlackRock put in an order to buy at least $5B worth of SpaceX shares; SpaceX received an over $1B request from a single family-office investor (Wall Street Journal)

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Citigroup launches a blockchain-based platform for wealthy and institutional clients to trade tokenized shares of private firms, initially for foreign investors (Gina Heeb/Wall Street Journal)

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OpenAI acquires Ona, which offers cloud services to support AI agents, and plans to bring Ona's team into its Codex effort (Seth Fiegerman/Bloomberg)

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The US House fails to extend FISA's Section 702, ensuring the warrantless surveillance program will expire for the first time since its 2008 enactment (Politico)

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Crusoe said it had "paused" a plan to build a Wyoming data center; sources: it failed to win customers including Google amid concerns about costs and timetable (Bloomberg)

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Amazon says its data centers used ~2.5B gallons of water in 2025, or 0.12 liters of water per kWh, and water use at sites it owns and operates fell 2% from 2024 (Anvee Bhutani/Wall Street Journal)

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Apollo Global has implemented a new risk assessment that categorizes software investments into 12 to 14 sectors to rank their susceptibility to AI disruption (Hannah Webster/Bloomberg)

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Jeff Bezos' Prometheus, which is building AI models for physical tasks, raised a $12B Series B at a $41B valuation, following a $6.2B Series A (Dan Primack/Axios)

Jeff Bezos' Prometheus, which is building AI model...

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