Plus: Google bought bankrupt Spirit Airlines' emails for $10 million, UC offloaded PE stakes at a discount, and 25,000 New Yorkers are waiting to get their bodies scanned.
Plus: Anthropic is heading toward a $2 trillion IPO valuation, potentially the largest software buyout in history, and a hedge fund divorce just became a $6 billion negotiation.
Plus: BlackRock crossed $15 trillion, Stripe is bidding $53 billion for PayPal, and a dating app is replacing human choice with AI entirely.
Plus: Zyn can now be marketed as a safe alternative to cigarettes and Jalen Brunson is now a salad mogul.
Plus: Trump bought Axon stock right before a $220 million ICE Taser deal, Rocket Lab is trying to catch up to SpaceX, and the consultant's billable hour is under existential threat.
Plus: Anthropic drops Claude for Slack, Wimbledon debenture seats are now fetching over $500,000, and Oracle cut 21K jobs over the past year.
Plus: SpaceX disclosed $100 billion in cash, the stock still dropped 16%, and Bain & Co. is using AI vibe coding to build software replicas for private equity due diligence.
Plus: Blankfein is day-trading without a computer, private credit redemptions keep accelerating, and Allbirds' AI rebranding.
Plus: Alphabet needs $80 billion to keep up in AI, Barry Diller wants to take MGM private, and a room full of billionaire heirs is paying to find meaning.
Plus: A $67 billion utility merger, BDCs pricing in Covid-level pain, and xAI stiffing its own employees on $420 tax reimbursements
Plus: A new Fed Chair, the biggest IPO in history on the horizon, and the DOJ probing private credit valuations.
Plus: Anthropic is closing in on a $900 billion valuation, eBay swatted away GameStop, and Goldman's own president is calling the bank a human assembly line.
