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SF This Weekend

tonight / tomorrow

Ariana Grande โ€” Eternal Sunshine Tour

Opens at Oakland Arena tonight (Jun 6), with additional shows Jun 9 and 10. Already sold out. Merch pop-up running at 71 Powell St through the weekend.

Oakland Arena ยท Sold out
this weekend

Union Street Festival

Free two-day street fair in Cow Hollow (Jun 6-7). Live music, food vendors, craft booths, and the usual Fillmore-to-Gough block party energy.

Cow Hollow ยท Free
coming up

FIFA World Cup at Levi's

Bay Area's big summer event: World Cup matches at Levi's Stadium Jun 13 and Jun 22. Ticket demand is massive.

Levi's Stadium ยท Jun 13 & 22
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Markets & Investments

sell-off

Worst Day Since October

Friday's strong jobs report killed remaining rate-cut hopes. S&P 500 dropped 2.64%, Nasdaq cratered 4.77%. Semis took the worst of it. The "good news is bad news" dynamic in full effect.

S&P -2.64% ยท Nasdaq -4.77%

Your Watchlist

All red. Semis hit hardest on the rate repricing; AVGO extending its post-earnings slide from Thursday.

NVDA
$205.10
-6.2%
ASML
$1,641.74
-6.6%
TSM
$415.17
-6.7%
AVGO
$385.73
-7.9%
AAPL
$307
-1.2%
MSFT
$417
-2.7%
GOOGL
$369
-1.0%
AMZN
$246
-3.1%
META
$593
-5.5%
TSLA
$391
-6.6%
CRWV
$100.39
-7.1%
watch

WWDC Monday

Apple's WWDC keynote is Monday Jun 8 -- Tim Cook's final keynote, the Siri/Gemini reveal, and iOS 27 debut. Direct catalyst for AAPL and downstream for TSM/ASML. Worth watching for any guidance on AI silicon spend.

Jun 8 ยท 10 AM PT
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Manchester United

season wrap

3rd Place, Champions League Secured

Carrick's first full season: 71 points, W20 D11 L7, GF69 GA50. Arsenal took the title on 85; City second with 78. Strong finish with four wins in the last five, including Liverpool.

3rd / 71 pts / CL qualified
transfer

Ederson Done, Fernandes Next

Ederson from Atalanta is essentially done at ~38m total. Next target: Mateus Fernandes from West Ham, reportedly around 45m. Tonali from Newcastle still in play at ~90m. Summer rebuild is moving.

~38m done ยท ~45m in progress
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Music

new release

Taylor Swift โ€” "I Knew It, I Knew You"

Swift dropped a new single for Toy Story 5 (in theaters today). Classic Taylor ballad territory with Pixar sentimentality -- it's going to be everywhere.

coming soon

Olivia Rodrigo โ€” New Album Jun 12

Rodrigo's third album drops next Friday. Early singles suggest she's leaning harder into alt-rock. One to watch.

June 12
live

Ariana Grande Opens in Oakland Tonight

Eternal Sunshine Tour kicks off at Oakland Arena. Three Bay Area dates: Jun 6, 9, 10. All sold out.

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Startups & Venture

mega-round

DeepSeek Raising $7.4B at $52-59B

DeepSeek's first-ever outside funding round. Validates the Chinese AI lab's position as OpenAI's most credible open-weight competitor. Valuation range of $52-59B puts it in rare company.

growth

Ramp Hits $40B+ Valuation

$750M round, $1.4B ARR. Ramp continues to eat Brex's lunch in corporate spend management. At 40B+, this is one of the most valuable private fintech companies globally.

series d

Gecko Robotics โ€” $125M for Industrial Inspection

Robot-powered infrastructure inspection for refineries, power plants, and pipelines. Less glamorous than humanoids, quietly building a real business in critical infrastructure.

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Robotics

commercial deal

Figure AI Deploys at JCPenney Parent's Warehouse

Figure signed a commercial deal with Catalyst Brands (JCPenney's parent company) to deploy humanoid robots at their Reno warehouse. This is one of the first real commercial deployments of humanoid robots in retail logistics.

platform

NVIDIA Opens Humanoid Reference Design

NVIDIA released an open humanoid reference design plus the DSX platform -- essentially trying to be the "Android of humanoid robots." If this catches on, it massively lowers the barrier to entry.

production

XPENG VLA2.0 Hits Mass Production

XPENG's Vision-Language-Action model 2.0 is in mass production. IRON humanoid targeting end-of-2026 deployment. The Chinese robotics ecosystem is moving fast.