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Bloomberg Technology’s June 10 live broadcast brings together several intersecting AI and space infrastructure stories at a moment of unusual market intensity. The headline: the SpaceX IPO — targeting a $250 billion raise at roughly a $1.8 trillion valuation — is multiple times oversubscribed by institutional investors, with Middle Eastern sovereign funds alone seeking $1–5 billion in shares. Baillie Gifford’s Peter Singlehurst provides investor context, framing the offering as the culmination of a 15-year trend of high-growth companies staying private longer, and noting SpaceX’s investment thesis is now increasingly tied to AI data center build-out, potentially in orbital infrastructure.
A detailed report unpacks Anthropic’s landmark infrastructure financing: Google is backstopping leases on five data centers operated by Fluid Stack, while Broadcom is guaranteeing the chip supply — described as simultaneously the largest private credit deal and the largest chip deal in history. The multi-party structure reflects the complexity of financing AI compute at this scale, with chips that don’t yet exist requiring manufacture commitments.
Separately, SoftBank’s attempt to raise $6 billion against its OpenAI stake via a margin loan has stalled, sending SoftBank shares lower. The broadcast closes with a counterpoint segment featuring UCLA professor and “Algorithms of Oppression” author Safiya Noble, who argues that LLMs remain unsafe, unreliable, and that corporate America is already retreating from AI chatbot deployments as human oversight costs erode claimed savings.
📺 Source: Bloomberg Technology · Published June 10, 2026
🏷️ Format: News Analysis
