Daily Briefing

Raunaq's World

Tuesday, June 9, 2026

SF Events

World Cup arrives at Levi's Stadium -- tomorrow

Turkey vs. Paraguay kicks off June 10

The FIFA World Cup is here. First match at Levi's: Turkey vs. Paraguay tomorrow. Qatar vs. Switzerland June 13. Austria vs. Jordan June 16. 30+ Fan Zones across the Bay including Thrive City, Pier 39, and China Basin Park. AMC theaters screening games in Spanish via Telemundo.

Jun 10 - Jul 1 | Levi's Stadium, Santa Clara

Stern Grove Festival opens Sunday -- free

Peter Cat Recording Co. on Jun 14, then Japanese Breakfast, Major Lazer, Al Green

The oldest free music festival in the US returns. Sundays at 2pm through August 16. Upcoming highlights: Bomba Estereo (Jun 21), Japanese Breakfast (Jun 28), Major Lazer (Jul 5), SF Symphony + Bela Fleck (Jul 12), Patti LaBelle (Aug 9), Al Green (Aug 16). Lottery system at sterngrove.org.

Free | Every Sunday 2pm | Stern Grove

This week in SF: Interpol, Belle and Sebastian, Toadies

Plus O.A.R./Gavin DeGraw, Joji, Jim Gaffigan

Interpol at Warfield (Jun 11-12). Belle and Sebastian at Masonic (Jun 11). Toadies + Local H + Sparta at Fillmore (Jun 12). O.A.R. + Gavin DeGraw + Lisa Loeb at Masonic (Jun 12). Joji at Chase Center (Jun 14). Jim Gaffigan at Masonic (Jun 14, comedy). Helen Hong at Punch Line all week.

Multiple venues | This week

Investments

The June selloff: Mag 7 and semis down 3-7% since last Wednesday

Entry territory for the tranche plan
TickerPriceChangeSince Jun 4
NVDA$206.64-1.0%-5.5%
AVGO$390.32-1.6%-18.5%*
ASML$1,763.83+0.8%--
TSM$426.25-0.1%--
AAPL$290.57-3.6%-6.6%
MSFT$404.01-1.9%-5.6%
GOOGL$365.54+0.6%-1.7%
META$590.15+0.8%-6.0%
TSLA$396.45-3.1%-5.3%
CRWV$98.09-4.2%--

*AVGO sold off 13% post-earnings despite beating estimates. Q2 EPS $2.44 (beat $2.40), revenue $22.19B (+48% YoY). Guided Q3 AI revenue to $16B.

Intraday June 9 | Key date: AVGO ex-div Jun 22, TSM earnings Jul 16

Manchester United

Season wrapped: 3rd place, 71 points, Champions League

Carrick's first full season ends with top-3 finish

United finished 3rd (W20 D11 L7, 69 GF/50 GA), 14 points behind champions Arsenal. The attack worked -- Mbeumo, Cunha, and Sesko all hit double figures -- but the midfield was the weak link. Now comes the rebuild.

Arsenal 85pts | Man City 78pts | Man Utd 71pts

Ederson in, Fernandes and Tonali next

Up to three midfielders planned as Casemiro leaves

Ederson from Atalanta is done (£35m, 4+1 year deal, medical pending). Mateus Fernandes from relegated West Ham is target #2 (~£80m ask). Sandro Tonali from Newcastle is target #3. Cucurella being considered at left-back (~£43m). Rashford 'highly unlikely' to return. Onana told he can leave.

Midfield rebuild: potentially 3 new signings

Funding

Anthropic heads for IPO at ~$1 trillion

$65B Series H, $35B infra platform with Broadcom

Anthropic filed a confidential S-1 on June 1 after closing a $65B Series H. Amazon and Alphabet hold substantial equity. Separately, Broadcom/Apollo/Blackstone launched a $35B AI infrastructure platform (AI XPV) to support Anthropic's compute expansion. The AI compute arms race is being financed by private credit now.

DeepSeek raises $7.4B; Moonshot AI seeks $30B valuation

China's AI funding race accelerates

DeepSeek's first-ever outside round: 50B yuan from Tencent, CATL, and founder Liang Wenfeng himself. Valuation $52-59B. Meanwhile, Moonshot AI (Kimi chatbot, ARR >$200M) wants $2B at $30B -- their third round in six months.

Robotics

Jensen Huang: humanoid robots 'very very close' to factories

NVIDIA partners with Hyundai and LG; Computex unveils H2+ robot platform

Huang deepened partnerships in Seoul with Hyundai ($5.9B AI Valley project) and LG (humanoid robots + data centers). At Computex: H2+ humanoid reference design, Cosmos 3 physical AI model, RTX Spark personal AI chip. Boston Dynamics' Electric Atlas is in enterprise pilots at Hyundai Georgia. Figure AI landed its first retail warehouse deal (Catalyst Brands, Reno). Tesla Optimus Gen 3 in 24/7 hand deployment.

Music

New this week: Taylor Swift goes country for Toy Story 5

Plus Death Cab, Evanescence, and The Strokes on June 26

"I Knew It, I Knew You" -- wistful harmonica, Jack Antonoff production, inspired by cowgirl Jessie. First new Swift material since The Life of a Showgirl. Also dropped: Death Cab for Cutie's "I Built You a Tower," Evanescence's "Sanctuary," and Lizzo's "Bitch." BTS drops "Come Over" on June 12. The Strokes' "Reality Awaits" arrives June 26.