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Big Tech

Daily Roundup, June 16: Capital, Talent, and Regulation All Moved at Once

Eight stories in three buckets: Anthropic's flagship got shut down by Commerce, SpaceX raised the largest IPO in history and spent on Cursor in five days, and Google's two most decorated AI researchers walked.

Maya Iverson
Big Tech

SpaceX Raised $75B in the Largest IPO Ever, Then Spent $60B on Cursor in Five Days

SpaceX priced its IPO at $135 on June 11, the largest in history. Shares closed day one at $160.95. By June 16 Musk used the newly public stock as currency for a $60 billion all-stock acquisition of Cursor.

Sam Whitaker
AI & ML

Cursor Was a Top-Tier Anthropic Customer. SpaceX Just Bought It.

Cursor, the AI coding tool SpaceX just acquired for billion, ran the bulk of its inference on Claude. The integration roadmap under Musk decides what happens to that revenue line.

Maya Iverson
Startups & Funding

SpaceX Filed Its S-1. Musk Gets 85% Voting Control and a 1 Billion-Share Mars Bonus.

SpaceX submitted its S-1 with 2025 revenue of $18.7B (+33% YoY), Starlink as the profit driver, and a Musk comp package tied to a permanent Mars colony of 1M people.

Jordan Beck
AI & ML

Anthropic Just Locked In SpaceX's Entire Colossus 1 Data Center

Anthropic signed an agreement for the full capacity of Colossus 1 — 300 MW and 220,000 Nvidia GPUs. What makes this different from a standard cloud contract.

Maya Iverson