Alphabet To Raise $80B in Equity, Anthropic Files For IPO
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🗓️ 2 June 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow break down why Alphabet wants to raise $80 billion in equity to fund AI infrastructure expansion, while Anthropic makes its IPO move and files confidentially to go public, pulling ahead of rival OpenAI in the IPO race. Plus, Elon Musk's SpaceX is negotiating to pay razor-thin fees to Wall Street firms handling its IPO, and HPE CEO Antonio Neri joins on the company's annual sales outlook beating estimates on the back of massive AI infrastructure demand.
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| 0:09.3 | Whether it's the funds fueling AI or crypto's trillion dollar swings, |
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| 0:34.9 | Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, Radio News. |
| 0:47.2 | Bloomberg Tech is live from coast to coast with Caroline Hyde in New York and Ed Lovelow in San Francisco. |
| 0:51.5 | This is Bloomberg Tech. |
| 0:59.6 | Coming up, AI's money race, Alphabet will raise $80 billion while Amphropic makes its IPO move. The confidential filing is in at the SEC. |
| 1:06.1 | Thus Elon Musk's SpaceX is negotiating to pay razor-thin fees to Wall Street firms handling its IPO. |
| 1:12.8 | And HPE soars after its annual sales outlook beat estimates on the back of massive demand for AI infrastructure will be joined by CEO Antonio Neri. |
| 1:16.5 | But there is so much going on in the meantime and we start the show off with today's big |
| 1:22.0 | number ed. |
| 1:23.0 | It's $80 billion. |
| 1:24.5 | Look, Alphabet sees that $75 billion being raised by SpaceX in its IPO and just |
| 1:30.0 | says, well, hold my beer. I'm going to do 80 billion. We're seeing it being distributed in really |
| 1:35.2 | novel ways, maybe trying to limit some of that dilution and more broadly. But $80 billion in |
| 1:39.9 | future equity raised to finance AI infrastructure does have an impact on the stock. |
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