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SpaceX made history today as its public debut sent shares surging nearly a fifth following a record seventy-five billion dollar initial public offering, vaulting Elon Musk past a threshold no individual has ever crossed — making him the world's first trillionaire. The listing redraws the map for private capital markets and sets a new benchmark for mega-cap tech valuations.
Shifting to equities, value stocks are delivering a striking outperformance over growth this year, and strategists say this is no short-term rotation. Investors are pricing in an earnings expansion that reaches well beyond the technology sector, suggesting confidence in the broader economy is quietly deepening beneath the headline noise.
On the AI front, a panel at Fortune Brainstorm Tech delivered a sobering reality check — shopping agents powered by artificial intelligence are theoretically here, but practically stalled. Security protocols, absent commerce standards, and retailer resistance mean consumers cannot yet hand off purchasing decisions to an AI model, despite the technology's rapid advance elsewhere.
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