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Last week Dow Jones gained 0.7%, S&P 500 rose 0.65%, Nasdaq composite was up 0.7%. After witnessing some significant weakness mid-week, stocks closed the week flattish, which is encouraging, especially after the previous week’s close. SpaceX went public, raising US$75 billion and rising ~20% to a US$2.1 trillion market cap, making Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire. OpenAI filed confidentially for an IPO. The company is contemplating a ChatGPT “superapp” agent overhaul. OpenAI is also considering steep token price cuts to counter Anthropic, whose viral Claude Code tool recently pushed its valuation past OpenAI’s. Anthropic suspended its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models following a U.S. export control directive. KKR, Nvidia, and Vistra launched Helix, a US$10 billion data center financing company. Broadcom will work with Apollo and Blackstone for a US$35 billion fund targeting 20GW of data centers for OpenAI and Anthropic. Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan are exploring trading GPU compute futures to hedge infrastructure gluts. Bending Spoons filed for a U.S. IPO after doubling revenue to US$1.3 billion. Roku entered buyout talks. Nvidia secured a multi-year HBM4 memory deal with SK Hynix and is pitching its new agentic Vera CPU to China. Apple launched its “Siri AI” reboot utilizing Google Gemini. Oracle’s cloud revenue growth was offset by legacy software weakness. In Canada, Thoma Bravo will acquire Kneat for $650 million cash at a 40% premium. Nuvei is in advanced talks to buy Payoneer for US$2.7 billion. Challenger bank Koho is the newest Canadian Unicorn after a $130 million Series E. Online lender Nesto hit a $1.5 billion valuation. AI rollup Beacon closed a US$225 million Series C, and Maneva secured a US$27 million Series A. In news pertaining to Sophic clients, Hybrid Power Solutions closed an oversubscribed $1.697 million private placement. 01 Quantum signed a strategic enterprise PQC partnership, and reported Q2 (April) revenue growth to $668k via its expanding commercialization efforts.

Last week, Dow Jones fell 0.3%, S&P 500 was down 2.6%, and Nasdaq composite lost 4.7%, with Friday being its worst one day decline in over a year. Strong macroeconomic jobs data sparked interest rate fears, triggering a semiconductor-led selloff. Earlier in the week, global tech infrastructure spend and mega-listings reached unprecedented heights. Anthropic filed for a confidential Q4 IPO after closing a US$65 billion raise at a US$900 billion valuation, annualized revenue hit US$47 billion. ChatGPT surpassed 1 billion MAUs, and Anthropic’s Claude app grew 640% y/y. SpaceX is targeting a historic US$75 billion IPO at a US$1.7 trillion valuation. The company announced a US$4.16 billion Space Force contract and lucrative compute leasing deals, pulling US$1.25 billion monthly from Anthropic and US$920 million from Google. Google expanded its equity raise to US$84.75 billion to fund AI infrastructure. SoftBank committed US$87.5 billion to French AI data centers. SK Hynix crossed a US$1 trillion valuation. Apple is tapping Google Cloud’s Nvidia Blackwell chips to power its September Siri overhaul. Microsoft launched its “Scout” AI agents and custom models. Intel announced its Crescent Island inference chip. Broadcom reported 48% revenue growth, but guidance disappointed investors. CrowdStrike will split its stock 4-for-1. IBM pledged US$10 billion to quantum R&D, competing with Microsoft’s new Majorana 2 chip. Stripe, Visa, Mastercard, and Coinbase formed a stablecoin consortium. In Canada, Prime Minister Mark Carney launched the “AI for all” strategy, featuring a $500 million Tech Growth Fund. Shopify expanded its buyback program by US$3 billion to counter AI-driven short pressure. In news pertaining to Sophic clients, Ionik reported Q1 growth and advanced a significant debt reorganization alongside a debt facility extension to June 25, 2026. Intermap expanded its Aquarius platform deployment with Generali into Central Europe, reinforcing its 80% recurring revenue mix. Cybeats Technologies secured an enterprise agreement for SBOM Studio with a global industrial software leader.

Last week, Dow Jones rose 0.9%, S&P 500 was up 1.4%, Nasdaq composite gained 2.4%. Global technology markets are experiencing unprecedented AI infrastructure spend and massive private capital rounds. Honeywell-backed Quantinuum is seeking a US$1.05 billion US IPO at a US$12.7 billion valuation. Anthropic raised US$65 billion at a US$900 billion valuation, and launched Claude Opus 4.8. Coding startup Cognition raised US$1 billion at a US$26 billion valuation. ByteDance is mulling a US$70 billion capex budget, and is striking an ASIC chip deal with Qualcomm. Meta launched paid chatbot subscriptions, as its capex forecast hit US$145 billion. Snowflake papered a US$6 billion infrastructure deal with AWS. AI memory demand pushed Micron, SK Hynix, and Samsung past US$1 trillion valuations. Dell jumped 38% on AI server sales. Salesforce stock dipped on lowered cash flow guidance, despite Agentforce hitting US$1.2 billion ARR. Uber’s COO questioned the ROI of AI coding tools. Amazon is acquiring Apple’s 20% stake in Globalstar. Robinhood launched automated AI-agent trading. Huawei revealed its “Tau Scaling Law” to reach 1.4nm nodes by 2031. In Canadian tech, Saris AI raised a US$28.8 million Series A, Lastwall secured a $16 million extension, Abaxx upsized its bought deal to $60 million. In news pertaining to Sophic clients, Kraken Robotics posted 35% Q1 revenue growth to $21.7 million, and reiterated its 2026 outlook. Replenish Nutrients delivered a 29% granulated fertilizer gross margin in Q1, which bodes well for the Company’s H2 2026 scale up plans. Renoworks Software grew recurring licensing revenue 36% to $1.19 million, hitting an 80% gross margin. Sophic client, 01 Quantum trades at a steep valuation discount to post-quantum peers despite demonstrating active commercial deployments, which could be an opportunity for investors.