SpaceX used a $20 billion bridge loan to slash Musk’s debt costs in half, IPO filing reveals
SpaceX used a $20 billion bridge loan to slash Musk’s debt costs in half, IPO filing reveals

Elon Musk’s strategy of folding his companies into one conglomerate is already paying off. Regulatory documents filed ahead of SpaceX’s historic IPO reveal that the company secured a $20 billion bridge loan from a group of major banks. That loan was us…

SpaceX files S-1, opening the path to what would be the largest IPO in history
SpaceX files S-1, opening the path to what would be the largest IPO in history

The prospectus shows $18.7bn of 2025 revenue, a $4.27bn Q1 net loss, an accumulated deficit of $41.3bn, and a balance sheet that includes 18,712 bitcoin worth $1.29bn at quarter-end. SpaceX will list on Nasdaq under the ticker SPCX. SpaceX has filed it…

NVIDIA beats again, guides to $91bn for Q2 and authorises another $80bn of buybacks
NVIDIA beats again, guides to $91bn for Q2 and authorises another $80bn of buybacks

Q1 revenue $81.6bn (+85% YoY), data centre $75.2bn, net income $58.3bn. The quarterly dividend moves from a penny to 25 cents per share. The buyback is the second $80bn authorisation in three quarters. Nvidia reported first-quarter revenue of $81.6bn o…

OpenAI is about to file for an IPO, and prediction markets think Anthropic just lost the race to go public first
OpenAI is about to file for an IPO, and prediction markets think Anthropic just lost the race to go public first

The AI industry’s most consequential race is no longer about building the best model. It is about getting to public markets first. OpenAI appears to have taken the lead. The company is preparing to confidentially file a draft of its IPO prospectus as s…

US regulators pause bank cyber exams so Wall Street can patch Mythos vulnerabilities
US regulators pause bank cyber exams so Wall Street can patch Mythos vulnerabilities

Weeks after Anthropic’s Mythos AI model sent shockwaves through the financial system, America’s top banking regulators are stepping back from the exam room to give the country’s largest lenders time to shore up their defences. The Federal Reserve and t…

ICE plans compute futures contracts as Wall Street races to turn GPU power into a tradable commodity
ICE plans compute futures contracts as Wall Street races to turn GPU power into a tradable commodity

  Intercontinental Exchange, the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, is preparing to launch futures contracts tied to the cost of computing power, marking the latest sign that Wall Street sees AI infrastructure as the next great commodity ma…

Coursera announces $500 million buyback one week after closing its $2.5 billion Udemy merger
Coursera announces $500 million buyback one week after closing its $2.5 billion Udemy merger

  Coursera has announced a $500 million share repurchase programme, its first buyback since going public in 2021 and one that arrives exactly one week after the online learning company completed its merger with Udemy. The board approved the programme o…

ChatGPT will now dole out finance tips if you connect your bank account. I won’t.

ChatGPT now lets Pro subscribers in the US connect their bank accounts through Plaid to get personalized financial guidance and spending analysis.

OpenAI launches ChatGPT for personal finance, will let you connect bank accounts

Once users connect their accounts, they will see a dashboard of their portfolio performance, spending, subscriptions, and upcoming payments.

The Winklevoss twins paid 2.5x the share price to lift Gemini off the floor
The Winklevoss twins paid 2.5x the share price to lift Gemini off the floor

Gemini Space Station shares surged more than 20% in premarket on Friday after the Winklevoss Capital Fund bought $100m of stock at $14, well above Thursday’s $5.26 close, and the exchange reported a smaller Q1 loss than expected. The Winklevoss twins h…