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The space stock rally is cracking as investors prepare to swap proxies for SpaceX itself

A rally that carried space-related stocks to extraordinary gains this year is showing serious cracks. The Procure Space ETF, which trades under the ticker UFO, has dropped almost 11% in just two sessions. Intuitive Machines and Rocket Lab have each fallen roughly 17%. AST SpaceMobile, which had become a retail-trading favourite, has sunk nearly 23%. The […]

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Anthropic’s IPO filing means Salesforce’s early AI bet is about to become its most profitable investment

Salesforce has a stake in Anthropic worth approximately $5 billion after investing repeatedly in the Claude developer since early 2023, Bloomberg reported on Monday. The software company first participated in Anthropic’s fundraising with roughly $50 million and has continued investing in every subsequent round. With Anthropic’s confidential IPO filing also landing on Monday, Salesforce is positioned […]

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Quantinuum boosts its IPO to $1.46 billion as orders hit double-digit multiples of available shares

Quantinuum, the Honeywell-backed quantum computing company, has increased the size of its initial public offering to as much as $1.46 billion after demand from investors far exceeded the original allocation. The company is now offering 26.5 million shares at $53 to $55 each, up from a previous range of approximately 21 million shares at $45 to $50. […]

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Anthropic files confidentially for an IPO, potentially beating OpenAI to Wall Street after eclipsing it in valuation

Anthropic has confidentially submitted draft registration paperwork for an initial public offering with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the company announced in a blog post on Monday. The number of shares to be offered and the price have not been set. The filing positions Anthropic to potentially reach the public market as soon as this fall, […]

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AI is crushing startup valuations for companies that raised before ChatGPT existed

The AI boom has created a two-speed startup economy. Companies building on generative AI are raising at historically unprecedented valuations, while startups that last raised capital before ChatGPT launched in November 2022 are watching their worth collapse. According to PitchBook valuation estimates, more than 220 companies that once held billion-dollar valuations have now fallen below that threshold, […]

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PLD Space raises its Kourou launch-complex investment to €35m

The Spanish launch firm says it is the first private operator to commit capital at this scale to the historic Guiana spaceport, with a first MIURA 5 flight still slated for 2026. PLD Space is putting €35m into the launch complex it is building at the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, the Spanish company announced […]

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ASML spinout Invisix raises €20M to see inside the chips optics can’t

Modern chips have a measurement problem that sounds almost philosophical: they have become too complex to look at. As logic and memory devices stack into three dimensions and shrink to a few nanometres, the optical tools that check each layer can no longer resolve the structures buried inside. Invisix, an Eindhoven startup spun out of […]

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20 Snap alumni launched an angel fund for the next generation of social media. They think “social” and “media” have split.

Twenty Snap alumni have launched Ghost Angels, an angel fund backing the next generation of social media and consumer AI startups. The fund has invested in at least five companies and plans to deploy remaining capital into at least 15 more within the next year. It declined to disclose total fund size. Max Rivera, who […]

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Anthropic named eight firms selling its shares illegally. After the backlash, it quietly removed four.

Anthropic updated its warning about unauthorized secondary market platforms selling its shares, cutting the list from eight firms to four. The revised version names only Open Door Partners, Unicorns Exchange, Pachamama, and Upmarket. Several of the most prominent names in private market trading, including Hiive, were removed. The original notice, published earlier this month, stated […]

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Ex-DeepMind researchers raised $50M to build AI that figures out which scientific questions are worth asking

London-based AI lab Inherent emerged from stealth on Wednesday with a $50 million seed round co-led by Index Ventures and Radical Ventures. Nvidia’s venture arm NVentures also participated, alongside Ex/Ante, Metaplanet, Macroscopic Ventures, and Mythos Ventures. It is among Europe’s largest AI stealth-to-launch rounds in 2026. The founding team comes from DeepMind, Microsoft, and Reka […]

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