NBA Finals tip off tomorrow. AVGO reports after the bell. SpaceX prices its IPO in ten days. The Valkyries play their first-ever WNBA game tonight at Chase Center. And SF's festival season is wide open this weekend. Here's what matters.
Wemby brings the WCF MVP trophy to Madison Square Garden. Wednesday June 3, 5:30 PM PT on ABC. San Antonio favored after a dominant Game 7 closeout of OKC.
The Bay Area's newest franchise tips off tonight at Chase Center. Historic opener — first WNBA expansion team in over two decades. Expect a packed house.
Two free street festivals hit Saturday-Sunday, June 7-8. Union Street runs Gough to Steiner with live music, food, and local vendors. North Beach goes full Italian heritage on Grant Avenue.
Three synth-pop legends on one bill. Thursday June 5. If you've ever wanted to hear "Don't You Want Me" and "Tainted Love" in the same set — this is it.
The semi thesis catalyst. $459.97 at ATH, consensus $2.40 EPS on $15.06B revenue. Custom AI accelerator demand (VMware + XPU) is the story. Last quarter beat and guided up. This is the last major semi to report.
Jensen's COMPUTEX keynote sent it: +6.3% Monday. The N1X consumer chip and Vera Rubin GPU roadmap confirmation. MU tagged along at ATH $1,035 (+6.6%). QCOM dropped -8.8% as N1X threatens Snapdragon's PC turf.
Filing targets ~$86.5B raise at a $1.8 trillion valuation. The largest IPO in history by a wide margin. Starlink profitability and launch cadence underwrite the number. Watch for allocation details this week.
At a 52-week high, +7% last week. Reports June 3 AMC alongside AVGO. Cybersecurity spend cycle is strong. CoreWeave (CRWV) +14% in sympathy with the AI infra wave.
The Atalanta CDM deal is in final stages. Carrick gets his midfield anchor — a player who averaged 2.8 tackles/game in Serie A and brings the press resistance United desperately need alongside Ugarte.
West Ham's relegation opens a discount window. United reportedly in for the Portuguese midfielder at £40M vs £80M asking. The gap is wide, but West Ham's leverage is gone. One to watch.
Casemiro, Antony, Rashford, Zirkzee all on the block. The rebuild under Carrick is real — 3rd place finish and UCL secured buy him a proper window. Bruno's 21-assist PL POTS season gives the squad a spine to build around.
Modest Mouse — "Spin It to the West" (first album in 4 years). Death Cab for Cutie — "Blue Marble." Lizzo returns. Vince Staples drops "Long Beach." And Taylor Swift releases a Toy Story 5 single. Five major releases, one Friday.
First album in five years. Julian Casablancas described it as "a record about screens and what they did to us." Early single "Alien Behaviour" already out. The indie internet is paying attention.
At ~$965B valuation after the $65B Series H, Anthropic surpassed OpenAI ($852B). First operating profit in Q2 ($559M). Confidential S-1 filed — timing likely late 2026 or early 2027. The AI company race is now a three-horse public market story.
TechCrunch roundtable surfaced the stat: three-quarters of all venture capital in 2026 so far has flowed to five companies. The concentration is unprecedented. Alphabet just raised $80B in equity (including $10B from Berkshire Hathaway). Capital is consolidating at the top.
Altman announced May 31 — OpenAI is officially in robotics. Not a research lab project; a dedicated division. Combined with the Jony Ive hardware partnership ($6.5B for an AI device company), OpenAI is going physical.
Jensen demoed a full reference humanoid platform: Isaac GR00T for sim-to-real transfer, running on Jetson Thor. Unitree's H1 was the showcase hardware. The message: NVIDIA wants to be the CUDA of humanoid robots.
The Model S/X production line at Fremont is being retooled for Optimus manufacturing. Target: 1 million units per year. That's not a moonshot number anymore — it's a production planning number.