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Monday, June 8, 2026

SF Events

NBA Finals Game 3: Knicks vs Spurs -- TONIGHT

Spurs down 0-2, heading to MSG at 5:30 PM PT

Game 2 was a heartbreaker -- Knicks won 105-104 after a late Wembanyama turnover. Wemby had 29 points on 11-21 but the mistake at the end was costly. Brunson has been surgical. Must-win territory.

June 8, 5:30 PM PT | ABC

WWDC 2026 Keynote -- Today at 10 AM PT

Siri 2.0 powered by Gemini, Tim Cook's last keynote

Apple revamps Siri with Google Gemini, standalone app, Dynamic Island integration, and agentic multi-step tasks. John Ternus (incoming CEO) was spotted mingling with media last night.

June 8, 10 AM PT | Apple Park

Giants vs Nationals -- Oracle Park Tonight

Three-game homestand starts at 6:45 PM PT

Giants took a series from the Cubs in Chicago. Willy Adames, Rafael Devers, and the boys are back at Oracle Park for a Monday night game on NBCS-BA.

June 8-10 | Oracle Park

FIFA World Cup at Levi's Stadium

Six matches starting June 10

Turkey vs Paraguay (June 10), Qatar vs Switzerland (June 13), Austria vs Jordan (June 16), and three more through July 1. Fan Zones at Thrive City, Pier 39, China Basin Park. Biggest Bay Area sporting event in years.

June 10 - July 1 | Levi's Stadium

Coming Up: Juneteenth SF, Stern Grove, Pride

June is packed

Juneteenth block party with Cameo on June 13 (free, Fillmore District). Stern Grove free concerts start June 14. Fillmore shows: Toadies (June 12), Lemon Twigs (June 17), Alex Isley (June 18), Pomplamoose (June 26). SF Pride June 27-28.

Investments

Friday Bloodbath: S&P -2.64%, Nasdaq -4.77%

Hot jobs report killed rate cuts. Semis crushed.

NVDA $205.10 (-6.2%), AVGO $385.73 (-7.9%), TSM $415.17 (-6.7%), CRWV $100.39 (-7.1%), ASML $1,641.74 (-6.6%). For the tranche plan, AVGO and NVDA are now in serious entry territory -- prices not seen since early May. NVDA pre-market Monday: $210.38 (+2.6%).

All prices June 5 close

Mag 7: AAPL Held Up Best, TSLA Hit Hardest

AAPL $307 (-1.2%) | META $593 (-5.5%) | TSLA $391 (-6.6%)

MSFT $416.67 (-2.7%), GOOGL $368.53 (-1.0%), AMZN $246.03 (-3.1%). Apple's resilience is WWDC-driven. TSLA fell despite JPMorgan upgrading to neutral on robotics integration thesis.

SpaceX IPO Thursday May Drain Liquidity

$1.77T valuation, $75B raise, SPCX on Nasdaq

Largest IPO ever. $135/share, 555.6M shares. Cramer thinks it could hit $5T on day one but investors will sell AMZN, MSFT, NVDA to fund it. Company lost $4.9B in 2025. Market event to watch.

June 12 | Nasdaq: SPCX

Startups

Anthropic Filed for IPO at $965 Billion

Surpassed OpenAI. ARR approaching $50B.

Confidential S-1 filed June 1. $65B Series H led by Altimeter, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, Sequoia. Q1 revenue $4.8B, Q2 projected $10.9B with $559M operating profit. The safety lab is now the most valuable AI company on the planet.

Ramp at $40B+ | Microsoft Built Reasoning Without OpenAI

AI-native finance is its own category; MAI-Thinking-1 matches Sonnet 4.6

Ramp raised $750M at $40B+ on $1.4B ARR. Microsoft's MAI-Thinking-1 (35B params, no OpenAI data) matches Sonnet 4.6 in blind evals. The OpenAI dependency just became optional.

Manchester United

3rd Place, 71 Points -- Carrick Confirmed

Best finish in years. Transfer window is open.

Season: W20 D11 L7. Ederson from Atalanta done (35M, 4yr). Hojlund sold to Napoli (38M). Casemiro, Sancho, Malacia all released. Midfield shortlist: Elliot Anderson (top pick but City circling), Baleba, Wharton, Scott, Mateus Fernandes (80M). Mourinho may hijack the Fernandes move if he returns to Real Madrid.

Robotics

NVIDIA H2+ Platform | Optimus Gen 3 in Production

Humanoid robots at $20K-$30K are now a reference design

Computex 2026: NVIDIA unveiled H2+ humanoid platform, Cosmos 3 model, RTX Spark. Jensen partnered with LG on motors + data centers. Tesla Optimus Gen 3 in mass production since January -- 50 hand actuators, first commercial customers late 2026. JPMorgan upgraded Tesla to neutral on robotics thesis.

Real Deployments: Firefighting Quadrupeds Shipping

Astrall Dynamics Hypertron-T01 delivered to China Southern Power Grid

80kg payload, 20L/s water cannon, 8-hour runtime, climbs 45-degree slopes. Already in bulk delivery. Meanwhile, Unitree's R1 humanoid at $4,370 signals the Chinese volume play is real. XPeng showed 4,360% training efficiency gains at CVPR.

Music

Taylor Swift Broke Spotify | Vince Staples Went Independent

Plus: FIFA World Cup album is stacked, Olivia Rodrigo drops June 12

Swift's "I Knew It, I Knew You" (Toy Story 5) set the Spotify single-day country record. Vince Staples released "Cry Baby," his first as an independent artist -- 10 tracks of confrontational commentary. pgLang surprise-dropped Imani Imani's debut. Olivia Rodrigo's new album arrives June 12. FIFA World Cup album features LISA, Shakira, Future, Rolling Stones across 18 tracks.

SF Shows This Month

Fillmore, Palace of Fine Arts, Fox Theater

Bruce Hornsby at Palace of Fine Arts (June 11). Toadies at Fillmore (June 12). Lemon Twigs at Fillmore (June 17). Alex Isley at Fillmore (June 18). Buju Banton + Stephen Marley at Fox Oakland (June 20). Pomplamoose at Fillmore (June 26). Holly Humberstone at Fillmore (June 28).