The Apple complaint becomes a concrete threat to OpenAI's IPO
Three aligned publications on July 17 - TechCrunch, The Verge, Vergecast podcast - turn the App Store dispute into a scheduling risk for OpenAI's IPO.
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CXMT files $9.8B IPO: China's memory push seeks a public balance sheet at cycle peak
CXMT aims for a $9.8 billion IPO. China lists its memory at the peak of the HBM/DRAM cycle, continuing the thread opened with the previous fundraising.
18 h ago 7 8
Energy IPOs surge as investors hunt for ways to play the AI boom
Ars Technica documents a wave of IPOs in the energy sector, driven by investors looking to board the AI train without buying Nvidia at its current multiples. The energy proxy becomes the favorite derivative trade - a clear end-of-cycle signal.
yesterday 8 8
Csquare IPOs at $1bn: another pure-play data center comes to market for the AI infra wave
After CoreWeave (March 2025), the compute layer continues to productize at the capital-markets layer. What matters isn't the raise.
yesterday 12 11
Anthropic files for an October IPO: the lab that made caution its selling point tests public markets
Anthropic is preparing a US listing as early as October, according to Tech in Asia. The number nobody has yet: at what price the "safety-first" narrative sells to public investors when OpenAI still sets the tempo.
yesterday 9 8
DeepSeek targets the markets: IPO filing in mainland China potentially as early as 2026
Liang Wenfeng's open-weight lab discusses with advisors; targeted listing in 2027, valuation still unknown.
Jul 15, 2026 at 10:14 8 7
CXMT Raises $8.5B: China Lists Its Memory at the Peak of the Shortage
Largest semiconductor IPO ever in China. The timing is no coincidence: DRAM is the rare resource of the AI era, and Beijing is turning scarcity into capital.
Jul 14, 2026 at 22:32 10 6
MiniMax raises $220 million HK in 48 hours - return to markets after the lockup crash
After the post-IPO lockup crash, MiniMax bounces back with a lightning $2.2M HK fundraising round. The lab becomes the echo chamber of post-IPO tensions in the Chinese AI market.
Jul 11, 2026 at 17:19 10 6