SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI’s Trillion Dollar IPO Plans
WSJ What’s News
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 21 May 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I think the potential of Agenic is to rethink how work gets done overall. |
| 0:05.0 | It challenges all sorts of traditional orthodoxies around how organizations execute the work at hand. |
| 0:11.3 | That's Jason Gersatus, CEO of Deloitte U.S., talking about the transformational potential of A.Gentic AI. |
| 0:17.9 | Join him later to learn why agents are a game changer for businesses across industries. |
| 0:25.7 | SpaceX and OpenAI sprint toward blockbuster public listings. Plus, Anthropics' explosive growth |
| 0:31.9 | pushes it into the black. These AI companies, a lot of them spend far more money than they take in. |
| 0:37.9 | So the fact that Anthropic has grown so quickly and had this much revenue |
| 0:41.8 | and that that revenue far exceeded its costs was highly unexpected. |
| 0:47.7 | And Tesla says its fully self-driving tech is launching in China. |
| 0:51.8 | It's Thursday, May 21st. |
| 0:53.4 | I'm Daniel Bach for the Wall Street Journal, |
| 0:55.1 | filling in for Luke Vargas. And here is the AM edition of What's News, the top headlines, |
| 0:59.5 | and business stories moving your world today. Wall Street is bracing for a historic wave of |
| 1:06.0 | tech listings as two of the world's most valuable private companies prepared to test the public |
| 1:10.7 | markets. |
| 1:11.9 | Yesterday, we learned that OpenAI is preparing an IPO filing that could land as soon as tomorrow. |
| 1:17.4 | That news came as Elon Musk's SpaceX unveiled its Blockbuster S-1 prospectus, |
| 1:22.6 | setting the stage for a landmark debut that could make Musk the world's first trillionaire. |
| 1:27.8 | Reporter Becky Peterson covers Musk for the journal and says this first look into the financial |
| 1:32.3 | health of SpaceX provided quite a few surprises. |
| 1:35.7 | It's losing a lot of money. The company lost almost $5 billion last year, and that's on $19 billion |
| 1:42.1 | in revenue. It's Starlink satellite internet business is doing |
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