Episode 359: SpaceX's $1.77T IPO, Meta's Global Business Agents, and the Cockroach Revolution

SpaceX prices its historic IPO at $135/share, valuing the company at $1.77 trillion and raising $74.4 billion—the largest offering ever. Meta launches Business Agent globally across WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger, with over 1 million businesses already using it. Image generation shifts paradigms as Ideogram 4.0 and Reve 2.0 move from text prompts to layout-based editing. OpenAI launches Codex Sites for hosted web apps, Anthropic ships Dynamic Workflows for parallel processing, and Google releases Gemma 4 12B for local inference. An AI-generated cockroach becomes Instagram's fastest-growing account ever, fueling India's student-led Cockroach Janta Party movement. Economic headwinds loom as the OECD warns Iran conflict could drag global growth to 1.8%, while Trump proposes 10% tariffs on 60 countries. Plus: PewDiePie's open-source AI workspace, China's record AI hardware exports, and escalating trade tensions. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.