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What You Missed This Week:
1. 🚫 S&P 500 Rejected SpaceX (+ OpenAI & Anthropic)
SpaceX has been pushing its swift entry into several stock market indexes as a condition of its historic market debut. But the S&P 500 isn’t biting. The S&P Dow Jones (the company that creates and manages indexes such as the S&P 500) is refusing to bend its rules for the space and AI company. In rejecting this monumental exception, it’s also shattered the possibility for OpenAI and Anthropic to expect an exception for their expected IPOs. (ArsTechnica)
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3. ↗️ Ramp Raised $750M at $44Bn Valuation
Corporate expense management platform Ramp just raised $750 million at a valuation of $44 billion, nearly tripling its valuation within just a year. The fast-growing startup has become a hot commodity as it started offering AI agents within its procurement, expense management, and other financial projects as well as launching a corporate credit card specifically for AI agents to use. (TechCrunch)
4. 🤑 Alphabet Plans to Raise $80Bn in Stock
Speaking of Berkshire Hathaway, Alphabet is planning to sell $80 billion in stock, including a $10 billion investment by the conglomerate. The Google parent company said the capital will “fund investments in its world-class AI compute infrastructure to meet its unprecedented customer demand.” (CNBC)
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6. 📌 Pinterest is Commiting $4Bn to AWS in its Biggest AI Infrastructure Deal Ever
Pinterest isn’t getting rid of AI anytime soon. The visual ideation social network just committed $4 billion to Amazon Web Services for cloud services through 2031, the largest infrastructure deal in the company’s history. The agreement extends its existing partnership (that dates to 2010) but offers AWS’ Trainium chips to help Pinterest power personalized visual search and AI-assisted discovery features. (Quartz)
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