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DAILY ISSUE · 2026-06-04

Thursday 04 June 2026

8 dispatches · every item carries a primary source and independent corroboration.

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SpaceX sets fixed $135 share price for record ~$75bn Nasdaq IPO at $1.77tn valua
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MARKETS · rates central banks · 2026-06-04SCOOP 92

SpaceX sets fixed $135 share price for record ~$75bn Nasdaq IPO at $1.77tn valuation; pricing June 11, debut June 12

SpaceX is preparing what underwriters bill as the largest IPO in capital-markets history, set to list on Nasdaq under the ticker SPCX. The company filed confidentially around April 1, made its S-1 public on May 20, and launched its investor roadshow on June 4 after a faster-than-expected SEC review. In an unusual move, SpaceX set a fixed roadshow price of $135 per share rather

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Quantinuum raises $1.68B in upsized IPO, prices at $60 above range; QNT opens at
MARKETS · ipo and ma filings · 2026-06-04SCOOP 80

Quantinuum raises $1.68B in upsized IPO, prices at $60 above range; QNT opens at $68, closes flat at ~$15.7B value

Quantinuum, the quantum-computing firm formed from the merger of Honeywell's quantum division and UK-based Cambridge Quantum, priced an upsized IPO of 28,000,000 Class A shares at $60.00 each on June 3, raising $1.68 billion — above the earlier marketed range of $53-$55. Underwriters hold a 30-day greenshoe of up to 4,200,000 additional shares. The deal was led by J.P. Morgan a

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BoJ said to weigh June rate hike to 1% as Ueda 'all but cements' move;
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BoJ said to weigh June rate hike to 1% as Ueda 'all but cements' move; yen near 160 intervention zone, MoF on alert

Bank of Japan officials are set to consider raising the benchmark policy rate by 25bp to 1.0% from 0.75% at the meeting concluding June 16, according to Reuters (Leika Kihara) on June 4, with markets pricing roughly an 80% probability. A move to 1% would lift Japan's policy rate to a level unseen since 1995. Governor Kazuo Ueda 'all but cemented' a June hike in a Wednesday spee

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INNIO prices upsized $2.43B secondary IPO at $27; gas-engine maker jumps ~15% to
MARKETS · ipo and ma filings · 2026-06-04SCOOP 76

INNIO prices upsized $2.43B secondary IPO at $27; gas-engine maker jumps ~15% to $33.30 on Nasdaq debut amid AI power demand

INNIO Group, the Munich-based distributed-power-systems maker behind the Jenbacher and Waukesha engine brands, priced an upsized IPO of 90,000,000 shares at $27.00 each on June 3 — the high end of the range and up from an originally proposed 75 million shares — raising about $2.43 billion. Underwriters received a 13.5-million-share over-allotment option. Critically, this is a p

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Meta, Microsoft and DOJ-led strike force dismantles Southeast Asian scam-center
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CYBER · cyber policy · 2026-06-04SCOOP 71

Meta, Microsoft and DOJ-led strike force dismantles Southeast Asian scam-center infrastructure; 63 arrested

Meta, Microsoft, Coinbase, SpaceX and other technology companies announced a joint disruption of criminal scam networks in Southeast Asia alongside the U.S. Department of Justice, the FBI and the Royal Thai Police, in coordinated operations spanning Washington, D.C. and Bangkok. The action, unveiled overnight into June 4, followed the first in-person meetings of the "Scam Cente

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Quantinuum Raises $1.68 Billion in Upsized IPO, Closes Flat in Nasdaq Debut Afte
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Quantinuum Raises $1.68 Billion in Upsized IPO, Closes Flat in Nasdaq Debut After Pricing Above Range at $60

Quantinuum, the quantum-computing company majority-owned by Honeywell, began trading on the Nasdaq Global Market on Thursday, June 4 under ticker QNT after pricing an upsized initial public offering of 28,000,000 Class A shares at $60.00 apiece — above its already-raised $53-to-$55 range — to raise $1.68 billion. The final prospectus, Form 424B4, hit SEC EDGAR following Wednesd

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Obernolte, Trahan unveil 269-page 'Great American AI Act' draft with t
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Obernolte, Trahan unveil 269-page 'Great American AI Act' draft with three-year preemption of state AI-development laws

On June 4, 2026, Reps. Jay Obernolte (R-Calif.) and Lori Trahan (D-Mass.) released a 269-page discussion draft of the 'Great American Artificial Intelligence Act,' a bipartisan attempt to build a federal AI governance framework. Co-sponsors include Reps. Suhas Subramanyam (D-Va.), Scott Franklin (R-Fla.), Scott Peters (D-Calif.) and Erin Houchin (R-Ind.). The marquee provision

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xAI ships Grok Imagine 1.5 (720p image-to-video) and rolls out Grok Voice; Grok Build 0.1 coding model enters API beta

xAI shipped a cluster of product releases in early June 2026. On June 3-4 it released Grok Imagine 1.5 Preview (model id grok-imagine-video-1.5-preview), an image-to-video model available via the xAI API that converts a single still image into cinematic video at up to 720p with natural-language motion control, preserving the source image's look and lighting. Per reporting, the

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