⛵ Micron Joins the $1T Cap Club
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Musk runs the day: a Space Force jackpot, a .5T merger fantasy, and a moon contract that slipped to Bezos.
Blue Origin Beats SpaceX on Moon Base
TL;DR: NASA awarded Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin a key Moon base resupply contract over SpaceX, the first major lunar win for Blue Origin and a notable rebalancing of the Bay Area space duel. Read more →
SpaceX Wins $2.29B Space Force Deal
TL;DR: The US Space Force handed SpaceX a $2.29B contract to build a new space-based military data network, deepening Starlink's role inside core US defense infrastructure. Read more →
IBM Spins Off $2B Quantum Chip Foundry
TL;DR: IBM is spinning off its quantum chip operations into America's first dedicated quantum foundry, backed by $2B of mixed federal and private funding aimed at securing US leadership in quantum compute. Read more →
OpenRouter Doubles Valuation to $1.3B
TL;DR: OpenRouter, the multi-model AI inference router, closed a $113M round at a $1.3B valuation, more than doubling its valuation in a year as enterprises consolidate model usage through a single API layer. Read more →
Stord Raises $250M at $3B Valuation
TL;DR: Amazon-fulfillment rival Stord raised $250M at a $3B valuation, riding accelerating sales as DTC and enterprise brands move warehousing and delivery off Amazon's platform. Read more →
NVIDIA Vera CPU Lands a Heavy Blow
TL;DR: Early benchmarks show NVIDIA's home-grown Vera CPU outperforming x86 rivals on throughput and efficiency, hardening NVIDIA's full-stack Rubin/Vera platform play for next-gen AI data centers. Read more →
Anthropic Olah Warns of Labor Wipeout
TL;DR: Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah issued an unusually direct warning that AI will displace human labor on a catastrophic global scale and called for policy intervention before the wave hits a rare blunt statement from inside a frontier lab. Read more →
Rocket Lab Acquires Motiv Space Robotics
TL;DR: Rocket Lab acquired Motiv Space Systems now Rocket Lab Robotics bringing Mars-mission heritage in-house and pushing Peter Beck's company directly into the space-robotics arms race. Read more →
SoftBank Opens AI GPU Cloud in Japan
TL;DR: SoftBank Corp. is launching an AI Data Center GPU Cloud in Japan, the first concrete domestic build-out of Masa's $150B AI infrastructure vision tied to its OpenAI and NVIDIA partnerships. Read more →
Micron Joins the $1T Cap Club
TL;DR: Micron crossed the $1T market-cap line, posting one of the fastest $100B to $1T runs on record as HBM high-bandwidth memory becomes a critical bottleneck in AI data-center buildouts. Read more →
Editas Sells 125M Stock Cartesian Raises
TL;DR: Editas Medicine raised $125M via a stock sale to push its gene-editing pipeline forward while biotech startup Cartesian closed fresh funding to accelerate launch a quiet rebound for Bay Area biotech. Read more →
Brussels Walls Off Satellite Spectrum
TL;DR: Brussels is moving to ringfence two-thirds of EU mobile-satellite spectrum for European operators, a direct attempt to box out Starlink and other US satcom giants from Europe's frequency pie. Read more →
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