CoreWeave joins the Nasdaq-100 just 15 months after its IPO, capping a wild ride from crypto mining to AI darling
CoreWeave joins the Nasdaq-100 just 15 months after its IPO, capping a wild ride from crypto mining to AI darling

CoreWeave, the AI cloud infrastructure company that began life as a New Jersey cryptocurrency mining operation called Atlantic Crypto, has been selected for inclusion in the Nasdaq-100 Index. The addition takes effect before market open on 22 June, jus…

SpaceX IPO makes Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire, but your retirement fund is picking up the tab
SpaceX IPO makes Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire, but your retirement fund is picking up the tab

Elon Musk is now worth more than $1 trillion. The SpaceX IPO, which priced 555.6 million shares at $135 each on 12 June, valued the company at roughly $1.77 trillion and pushed Musk past a threshold no individual has ever crossed. His SpaceX stake alon…

SpaceX raised $75 billion in the largest IPO in history. Japanese retail investors got $2.2 billion of it.
SpaceX raised $75 billion in the largest IPO in history. Japanese retail investors got $2.2 billion of it.

SpaceX begins trading on Nasdaq today under the ticker SPCX after raising $75 billion in the largest initial public offering ever completed. The previous record holder, Saudi Aramco’s 2019 listing, raised $29.4 billion, making SpaceX’s offering roughly…

CoreWeave’s borrowing costs just fell from 10% to 7%. The AI data centre debt market is repricing risk in real time.
CoreWeave’s borrowing costs just fell from 10% to 7%. The AI data centre debt market is repricing risk in real time.

An Applied Digital subsidiary raised $1.59 billion in the high-yield bond market on Tuesday to fund a fourth building at its Polaris Forge 1 campus in North Dakota, which will provide 150 megawatts of computing capacity for CoreWeave under a 15-year co…

Oracle spent $55.7 billion on data centres in a single year, beat its own guidance by $5.7 billion, and wants to raise another $40 billion
Oracle spent $55.7 billion on data centres in a single year, beat its own guidance by $5.7 billion, and wants to raise another $40 billion

Oracle reported fiscal fourth-quarter revenue of $19.2 billion, up 21% year on year, and adjusted earnings of $2.11 per share, beating analyst estimates of $19.1 billion and $1.97 respectively. The numbers were overshadowed by capital expenditure that …

BNP Paribas says the $3.6 trillion US tech IPO pipeline will pull European startups towards public markets
BNP Paribas says the $3.6 trillion US tech IPO pipeline will pull European startups towards public markets

The IPO filings by SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic have created a pipeline of US tech offerings worth approximately $3.6 trillion. That wave is going to generate appetite for European tech deals too, according to Ygal el Harrar, global head of equity cap…

The most AI-obsessed companies spend $7,500 per employee per month. The median spends $11.
The most AI-obsessed companies spend $7,500 per employee per month. The median spends $11.

The top 1% of US companies by AI adoption spend $7,500 per employee per month on AI tools and compute. The median firm spends $11.38. That 680x gap, drawn from the Ramp AI Index, is the clearest picture yet of how unevenly AI spending is distributed ac…

SoftBank briefly became Japan’s most valuable company. The last time that happened was February 2000.
SoftBank briefly became Japan’s most valuable company. The last time that happened was February 2000.

SoftBank knocked Toyota off its perch as Japan’s most valuable company last week, after a stock rally inflated the conglomerate’s market capitalisation by more than $120 billion in six months. Three days later, Toyota reclaimed the top spot. The last t…

Inside the move from generative AI to agentic AI in enterprise finance
Inside the move from generative AI to agentic AI in enterprise finance

Generative AI has already changed how companies draft, summarize and search for information. The next challenge is more complex: whether AI can coordinate work across business systems while preserving controls, auditability and human accountability. Th…

A $200bn software investor declares the ‘SaaSpocalypse’ over. Not everyone is convinced
A $200bn software investor declares the ‘SaaSpocalypse’ over. Not everyone is convinced

Four months ago, AI looked like it might gut the software industry. This week, one of its biggest investors declared the threat over. The truth sits somewhere in between. Speaking at the SuperReturn International conference in Berlin, Orlando Bravo, fo…