SpaceX Goes Public, Anthropic Writes the Check, and Nvidia Prints Money

In today's episode: SpaceX files publicly for its IPO, choosing Nasdaq to make its debut under the symbol SPCX; Elon Musk's shares give him 85.1% of the voting power in the company SpaceX S-1: Anthropic is paying SpaceX $1.25B per month through May 2029 under their compute deal; Anthropic says it is expanding the deal to include Colossus 2 Nvidia reports Q1 revenue up 85% YoY to $81.62B, above $78.86B est., Data Center revenue up 92% YoY to $75.2B, and announces an $80B share repurchase program Sources: OpenAI is preparing to file confidentially for an IPO as early as May 22 and has a goal to be ready to go public as early as September Flipper unveils the Flipper One, a pocketable open Arm Linux computer with similar performance to a Raspberry Pi 5, and welcomes feedback to get it market-ready OpenAI says an internal general-purpose reasoning model has disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a central problem in discrete geometry posed in 1946