Valor Equity Partners looks to raise a $2.5B Fund VII, per Bloomberg

New details have emerged about Valor’s latest fund, which last year announced it was raising an unspecified amount of capital.

SpaceX draws $89 billion in demand for its debut bond sale, one of the largest US offerings this year
SpaceX draws $89 billion in demand for its debut bond sale, one of the largest US offerings this year

SpaceX has drawn roughly $89 billion in investor demand for its debut US bond sale, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, setting the stage for one of the largest investment-grade offerings this year. The company is seeking to raise between $20 billion and $2…

SpaceX lands $6.3bn compute deal with Reflection AI
SpaceX lands $6.3bn compute deal with Reflection AI

Reflection AI will pay SpaceX $150mn a month for Nvidia chips at Colossus 2, a deal worth roughly $6.3bn by 2029. The SpaceX Reflection AI deal puts Nvidia on both sides of the trade. SpaceX has signed another giant compute tenant. This time it is Refl…

SpaceX inks compute deal with Reflection AI, an open source AI lab

Reflection AI will pay $150 million a month beginning July 1, 2026 through 2029 for immediate access to Nvidia’s latest GB300 AI chips and supporting hardware across SpaceX’s Colossus 2 data center near Memphis, Tennessee.

SpaceX taps the bond market for the first time to fund AI
SpaceX taps the bond market for the first time to fund AI

Fresh from a record IPO that helped make Elon Musk a trillionaire, SpaceX is raising at least $20bn in its debut bond sale to bankroll a vast AI build-out. SpaceX is about to do something none of Elon Musk’s companies has done before. It is borrowing m…

SpaceX shares slide again as the post-IPO rally keeps unwinding
SpaceX shares slide again as the post-IPO rally keeps unwinding

SpaceX shares looked poised to fall again as US markets reopened after the long weekend, extending a slide that has already erased much of the euphoria from the largest stock-market debut in history. The stock closed last week around $185, down roughly…

Is the US government’s Anthropic ban accidentally helping the brand?

Just as last week was ending, the US government forced Anthropic to pull its two newest models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing national security concerns after Amazon researchers allegedly found a way to bypass Fable 5’s guardrails.&…

SpaceX falls more than 6% as the record IPO rally cools
SpaceX falls more than 6% as the record IPO rally cools

For two days, SpaceX was one of the five most valuable companies on Earth. On Thursday, the market began to reconsider. Shares in Elon Musk’s rocket-and-satellite company fell more than 6%, last trading down 6.5% at $178.50, as the frenzy that followed…

Roelof Botha joins SpaceX’s board of directors

The former Sequoia Capital leader is filling an “existing vacancy” on SpaceX’s board, days after the company went public in the largest IPO ever.

Trump’s DOJ intervenes to keep Musk’s xAI gas turbines polluting Memphis
Trump’s DOJ intervenes to keep Musk’s xAI gas turbines polluting Memphis

The US Department of Justice has asked a federal court to throw out a Clean Air Act lawsuit against Elon Musk’s xAI, arguing that the company’s unpermitted gas turbines near Memphis are a matter of “national, economic, and energy security.”
The move pu…