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SpaceX has filed for its long-anticipated IPO, and buried in that filing is a notable detail: the rocket company holds nearly nineteen thousand bitcoin, valued at roughly one point two nine billion dollars. The company is targeting a valuation north of one point five trillion, making it one of the most consequential public offerings in recent memory.
Meanwhile, in a deal that caught the AI industry off guard, Anthropic has agreed to pay Elon Musk's xAI one point two five billion dollars per month for compute access. That's a striking arrangement given the competitive dynamics at play — Anthropic and xAI are rivals, yet here they are in a significant infrastructure partnership, with Anthropic essentially funding the expansion of a competitor's hardware footprint.
And Sam Altman is making moves in the startup world. The OpenAI chief offered to invest in every company in the current Y Combinator class, proposing tokens in exchange for equity. It's an audacious sweep that raises real questions about concentration of influence — one of the most powerful AI labs potentially embedding itself across an entire generation of early-stage companies.
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