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Bloomberg Technology’s live June 2, 2026 broadcast covers two seismic AI finance stories breaking simultaneously: Alphabet announcing an $80 billion equity raise to fund AI infrastructure, and Anthropic filing confidentially with the SEC for an IPO. The Alphabet transaction — structured as a $10 billion Berkshire Hathaway investment, $30 billion in public offerings, and a $40 billion at-the-market program beginning July 1 — ranks among the largest equity deals ever executed. Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Robert Shiffman calls the Berkshire involvement a landmark confidence signal, noting that Alphabet’s choice of equity over cheaper debt reflects strong conviction in AI infrastructure ROI. Alphabet has already raised $85 billion in credit markets; analysts on the show project hyperscaler CapEx reaching $300 billion for Alphabet alone in 2027, with cumulative spending across the largest hyperscalers approaching $800 billion this year and over $1 trillion in 2027.
The Anthropic IPO filing is the other headline — marking the first formal step toward public markets for one of the two dominant frontier AI labs alongside OpenAI. The confidential SEC filing was disclosed on-air without further structural details at time of broadcast.
The show also features an interview with HPE CEO Antonio Neri on the company’s record quarterly results (covered separately), a segment on SpaceX’s IPO fee negotiations with Wall Street banks ahead of what could be the largest IPO in history, and an interview with a space infrastructure CEO on the economic ripple effects of SpaceX going public.
📺 Source: Bloomberg Technology · Published June 02, 2026
🏷️ Format: News Analysis
