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SpaceX shattered every IPO record this week, but the real story was capital flooding into AI from every direction — Bezos betting $12 billion on physical-world intelligence, Apple finally reinventing Siri, and Washington trying to write the rules before the money moves too fast. The line between tech company and infrastructure play has all but disappeared.

Microsoft used Build to declare independence from OpenAI with seven homegrown models, Anthropic filed for an IPO, and Congress dropped the most ambitious AI bill the US has ever seen. Oh, and Nvidia entered the PC market.

Google I/O launched an always-on personal agent, an OpenAI model solved an 80-year-old math problem, and SpaceX filed the largest IPO in history — all in the same week. Trump pulled a planned AI executive order at the last minute, calling it "a blocker."

Anthropic stormed Wall Street with a $1.5 billion joint venture and ten ready-made financial agents, while the Pentagon signed AI deals with eight tech giants and pointedly left Anthropic off the list. The week crystallised a strange new reality: one company can simultaneously be the most wanted partner on Wall Street and the most unwanted in Washington.

AI cybersecurity became a philosophical arms race between OpenAI and Anthropic. Artemis II brought astronauts home from the moon.

242 billion dollars flowed into AI in a single quarter, and the week showed exactly where it's all going.