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Elon Musk's SpaceX is getting ready to break new records on Wall Street.

The rocket company has officially filed the paperwork for an initial public offering.

As NPR's Maria Aspen reports, it could be the biggest IPO ever,

surpassing the debut of Saudi Aramco, the national oil company of Saudi Arabia.

The IPO is expected to make SpaceX one of the most valuable companies in the world.

It sends rockets into space and holds billions of dollars of U.S. government contracts,

but space launches are just part of its business.

SpaceX also owns the Starlink Communications Platform,

an Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, XAI. Tech investors will be watching SpaceX for more

details on the costs and payoffs of the AI boom. They're also waiting for big IPOs from

OpenAI Ananthropic, the makers of ChatGPT and Claude.

Meanwhile, SpaceX's IPO would also make Musk even wealthier. The billionaire and former

advisor to President Trump could become the world's first trillionaire. Maria Aspen and PR News.

The U.S. government has agreed to permanently drop tax claims against President Trump.

The president says it's part of a deal to resolve his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS over the leak of his tax returns.

I released them from the lawsuit, and I guess they made a settlement of some kind.

I wasn't involved in the settlement.

I could have been involved, but I didn't choose to be.

So they made a settlement. The U.S. is, quote, forever barred and precluded from examining or

prosecuting Trump, his sons and the Trump organization's current tax issues. The settlement also

includes nearly $1.8 billion to compensate Trump allies who believe they have been unjustly investigated and

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