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TREE NEWS reports: Anthropic has chosen Nasdaq as the listing venue for its potential IPO, handing the exchange a second major win after it landed SpaceX earlier this year. Some estimates put Anthropic’s valuation at as much as $2 trillion, though that figure is not yet finalized. SpaceX was valued at $1.75 trillion. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has said OpenAI will not go public for now.

TREE NEWS reports: Investor Jason Calacanis said in a post on X that AI stocks will drop more than 10% early Monday, claiming Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei “wrecked the AI trade with a blog post” after Amodei argued for slowing the industry’s development. User goodalexander pushed back, saying he would “take the other side,” to which Calacanis replied, “we’re trying to buy the dip.”

TREE NEWS update: Robotechnik has passed the Hong Kong Stock Exchange’s listing hearing. The approval moves the company a step closer to an initial public offering in Hong Kong, though the filing did not disclose the size, pricing or timing of any share sale.

TREE NEWS reports: Oracle’s earnings disclosed that all renewed GPU compute capacity was resold at prices 20% above prior contracts, with most of the equipment already in use for over four years. The analyst said this rebuts Michael Burry’s argument that GPUs depreciate rapidly and is bullish for Nebius, IREN, Nvidia and the Neocloud compute sector.

TREE NEWS reports: Leopold Aschenbrenner’s Situational Awareness has re-entered the public market, buying options on AMD, Bloom Energy, CoreWeave, SK Hynix, SanDisk and the DRAM ETF, CNBC reported. The fund’s Q2 13F showed $20.2 billion in notional holdings, up from $13.7 billion in Q1. It has hired broker Clear Street and told the firm it will use significantly less leverage than before; JPMorgan has ended its lending relationship with the fund.

TREE NEWS reports: Vy Capital holds roughly 3.4% of SpaceX, a stake valued at about $40 billion, making it the rocket company’s fifth-largest shareholder, ahead of disclosed positions held by Sequoia Capital and a16z. The venture firm first invested in SpaceX in 2016, when the company was valued at about $15 billion. Vy Capital’s assets under management rose from $27 billion at the end of last year to $50 billion by June, with a 41% gross IRR since its 2014 founding.

TREE NEWS update: Venture capital firm Vy Capital currently holds about a 3.4% stake in SpaceX, valued at roughly $40 billion, making it SpaceX’s fifth-largest shareholder, with a holding larger than the disclosed positions of Sequoia Capital and a16z. Vy Capital first invested in SpaceX in 2016, when the company was valued at about $15 billion. The firm’s assets under management have grown from $27 billion at the end of last year to $50 billion as of June this year, and it says it has delivered a total internal rate of return of 41% since its founding in 2014, having distributed $4.6 billion to investors.

TREE NEWS update: The Korea Exchange will open trading in almost all local stocks until 8pm from Monday, extending past the current 3:30pm close in a first for a major Asian bourse. The move is a step toward the exchange’s goal of 24-hour trading from December 2027 and will test whether sufficient liquidity can be sustained over the longer session.

TREE NEWS update: The Korea Exchange will open trading for nearly all domestic stocks until 8 p.m. starting Monday, extending past the current 3:30 p.m. close, a first for a major exchange in Asia. The move is a step toward the exchange’s goal of 24-hour trading from December 2027 and will test whether sufficient liquidity can be maintained during the longer trading session.

TREE NEWS update: General Motors is in the early stages of developing its next generation of battery cells, with the aim of sourcing them domestically. “We’re building a supply chain so that in two to three years it will be fully localized,” said Kurt Kelty, GM’s vice president of battery and sustainability. “That’s our goal — that when we go to market, we’ll have local sourcing.”

TREE NEWS reports: Nasdaq-listed Newgenivf (NIVF) disclosed its 2025 trading in SOL, BTC, ETH and XRP. It bought 146,432 XRP and sold the entire position for a realized gain of about $10,800, while also trading small amounts of BTC and ETH. The company retained roughly 13,000 SOL, which showed an unrealized loss of about $1.28 million by year-end.

TREE NEWS update: Hansoh Pharmaceutical reported interim Phase III ARTEMIS-008 data showing its B7-H3-targeted antibody-drug conjugate HS-20093 (rikanglivutotug) met the primary overall survival endpoint in relapsed small cell lung cancer, with statistically significant and clinically meaningful survival benefit. Presented at WCLC 2026, the trial is the first randomized controlled Phase III study to confirm an OS benefit for a B7-H3-targeted ADC.

TREE NEWS reports: SpaceX’s weighting in the Nasdaq 100 is projected to rise to about 2.82% from roughly 1.28%. Final weightings will be set later this month. Wall Street expects the change to drive billions of dollars in fresh buying from index funds and exchange-traded funds tracking the benchmark.

TREE NEWS update: Tesla has teased an October 1 event to showcase the next-generation Roadster, the niche model CEO Elon Musk first unveiled in November 2017. The fall event has been long awaited by Tesla fans and could further fuel speculation about a merger between Tesla and SpaceX. “Prepare for launch” echoes SpaceX’s rocket launches, as Tesla has consistently used live events to energize customers and investors.

TREE NEWS update: Larry Ellison has canceled a 10b5-1 trading plan that would have allowed him to sell down his Oracle stock, and no shares have been sold under the plan to date. Ellison also does not intend to sell any of the Oracle shares he holds.

TREE NEWS reports: Nvidia is considering a $10 billion investment in Anthropic’s planned IPO, which the AI company expects could raise as much as $100 billion and value it at about $2 trillion. If completed at that size, the offering would be a record listing. No terms have been finalized.

TREE NEWS update: Kingnet Network announced on the evening of September 12 that it plans to take an indirect equity stake in South Korean game company Wemade. Wemade is listed on KOSDAQ, was among South Korea’s first-generation online game developers, and is the original rights holder of the influential “Legend” IP.

TREE NEWS update: Apple opened pre-orders for the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max on the evening of September 12, with starting prices of 9,999 yuan and 10,999 yuan respectively. The two models will go on official sale on September 18. Apple did not disclose pre-order volumes or regional availability outside China.

TREE NEWS update: Morgan Stanley bought roughly 203.446 BTC over three consecutive days through its spot Bitcoin ETF MSBT, spending about $15.81 million. The purchases pushed its total Bitcoin holdings above 7,800 coins for the first time, to 7,855 BTC, worth more than $600 million.