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Breaking Pleo lays off 50 staff as AI-expense platform consolidates workforce Funding Mistral eyes €20bn valuation as French AI unicorn scales funding talks Breaking Angular's Official Agent Skills Toolset Boosts AI Coding Assistant Compatibility Breaking Pinecone Brings AI Agents Directly to Enterprise Data via Microsoft OneLake Integration Breaking European Doomerism Creeps Into Tech Conferences as Startups Voice Challenges Chips Republican lawmakers press ITC to block TSMC chip imports pending patent ruling Funding SpaceX launches largest IPO on record; Musk's rocket company prices at $68B valuation Market SpaceX IPO Draws Retail Demand Despite Valuation Skepticism Market Former Tesla board member: SpaceX needs 2 of 3 moonshots to sustain current valuation Funding NIF hires ex-EIB investor to head venture fund-of-funds programme Breaking Mistral's Arthur Mensch on agentic AI, chip strategy, and enterprise adoption Chips Xbox memory and storage costs spike 5x by 2027; Microsoft warns supply strain unsustainable Breaking Hades Malware Campaign Exploits AI Safety Failsafes to Evade Detection Market SpaceX IPO prices as largest market debut ever; $176B valuation Breaking OpenAI and Bloomberg Partner to Integrate ChatGPT into Financial Data and Analytics Workflows Chips Indian Firm Scales Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Production for AI Chips and Batteries Market ChatGPT hits 1 billion monthly app users despite AI sentiment downturn Breaking Microsoft open-sources PostgreSQL extension for durable in-database execution Market NVIDIA GeForce NOW Summer Sale: Major Membership Discounts Funding Neura Robotics closes Europe's largest robotics funding round Breaking Pleo lays off 50 staff as AI-expense platform consolidates workforce Funding Mistral eyes €20bn valuation as French AI unicorn scales funding talks Breaking Angular's Official Agent Skills Toolset Boosts AI Coding Assistant Compatibility Breaking Pinecone Brings AI Agents Directly to Enterprise Data via Microsoft OneLake Integration Breaking European Doomerism Creeps Into Tech Conferences as Startups Voice Challenges Chips Republican lawmakers press ITC to block TSMC chip imports pending patent ruling Funding SpaceX launches largest IPO on record; Musk's rocket company prices at $68B valuation Market SpaceX IPO Draws Retail Demand Despite Valuation Skepticism Market Former Tesla board member: SpaceX needs 2 of 3 moonshots to sustain current valuation Funding NIF hires ex-EIB investor to head venture fund-of-funds programme Breaking Mistral's Arthur Mensch on agentic AI, chip strategy, and enterprise adoption Chips Xbox memory and storage costs spike 5x by 2027; Microsoft warns supply strain unsustainable Breaking Hades Malware Campaign Exploits AI Safety Failsafes to Evade Detection Market SpaceX IPO prices as largest market debut ever; $176B valuation Breaking OpenAI and Bloomberg Partner to Integrate ChatGPT into Financial Data and Analytics Workflows Chips Indian Firm Scales Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Production for AI Chips and Batteries Market ChatGPT hits 1 billion monthly app users despite AI sentiment downturn Breaking Microsoft open-sources PostgreSQL extension for durable in-database execution Market NVIDIA GeForce NOW Summer Sale: Major Membership Discounts Funding Neura Robotics closes Europe's largest robotics funding round

Funding Friday, June 12, 2026 at 01:31 PM

SpaceX launches largest IPO on record; Musk's rocket company prices at $68B valuation

SpaceX opened for public trading on Friday, marking the largest IPO in history. The valuation places the Elon Musk-led company at $68 billion, reflecting investor appetite for proven launch and satellite capabilities at scale.

The public offering caps a decade of private capital rounds and positions SpaceX as the first independent rocket firm to go public, a milestone for commercial space infrastructure investors tracking AI/datacenter buildout timelines.

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