SpaceX Blasts Off With a Record-Breaking $75 Billion IPO ^42.3%

KQED - By John Ruwitch, NPR - 6/11/2026, 9:20 PM

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Elon Musk’s mega-conglomerate SpaceX made history on Thursday, raising $75 billion in the biggest initial public offering on record. In an announcement posted online, SpaceX confirmed the pricing of its IPO of 555,555,555 shares at $135 each. It also said it granted the underwriters of the listing an option to buy an additional 83.3... more

AI giant Anthropic prepares to sell stock to the public; files preliminary IPO paperwork ^56.6%

NPR - By John Ruwitch - 6/1/2026, 6:27 PM

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Anthropic, maker of Claude, one of the most popular artificial intelligence models on the market, has started the ball rolling on an initial public offering. The company announced on Monday that it has "confidentially submitted" a draft registration statement known as a Form S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission for its... more

Meta slashes 8,000 jobs as it pivots toward AI ^59.8%

KUOW Public Radio - By John Ruwitch - 5/20/2026, 6:27 PM

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The tech company Meta kicked off a sweeping reorganization on Wednesday that will shrink its workforce and accelerate a pivot toward artificial intelligence. In an internal memo last month, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp said it would lay off around 10% of its workforce — or about 8,000 people — in May. Company... more

In the shadow of U.S. export controls, China rallies its own chip industry ^57.1%

NPR - By John Ruwitch - 12/19/2025, 10:00 AM

SHENZHEN, China — The tech company SiCarrier is hardly a household name. The government-backed Chinese firm makes things most people have probably never heard of, like epitaxy equipment and atomic layer deposition tools used in microchip fabrication. Wonky stuff. But at a chip industry expo in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen this... more

As political winds shift, top chipmaker TSMC looks beyond Taiwan ^62.5%

NPR - By John Ruwitch - 12/1/2025, 8:34 PM

HSINCHU, Taiwan - Silicon Valley may be the heart of global tech, but its pulse depends on a special kind of lifeblood — high-end microchips — many of which flow out of a science park on Taiwan's west coast. The park has been home to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, or TSMC, since the company's inception nearly four decades... more