On May 22, 2026, OpenAI confidentially filed its S-1 with the SEC, targeting a valuation above $1 trillion and a September listing. If completed, it would be the largest IPO in US history.
After Nvidia paid $20 billion and absorbed Groq's top engineers, the AI chip startup is raising $650 million and reinventing itself as a cloud provider for AI inference.
Jeffrey Sprecher, CEO of NYSE-owner ICE, stated that Hyperliquid is bigger than Nasdaq in derivatives trading volume. ICE has already held multiple meetings with the platform's founders.
SoftBank announced plans to invest up to €75 billion ($87B) in AI data centers across France, the largest AI infrastructure project in European history, with 5 GW of capacity planned by 2031.
US Bitcoin ETFs broke their own record: nine straight trading days of net outflows, with $2.8 billion pulled since May 15. It is the longest redemption streak since the funds launched in 2024.
The CFTC approved the first regulated Bitcoin perpetual futures in the US, green-lighting applications from Kalshi and Coinbase. Until now, perpetuals existed only on offshore exchanges.
Anthropic, the maker of the Claude AI assistant, closed a $65 billion round and is approaching a $1 trillion valuation ahead of a possible IPO. It shows how fast money is pouring into artificial intelligence.
US authorities reported seizing nearly $1 billion in digital assets from networks tied to Iran. It is one of the largest crypto seizures on record and a sign of how governments use blockchain in the sanctions fight.
The US regulator allowed blockchain firm Paxos to settle and clear American stocks — for the first time alongside the traditional giant DTCC. It is a step toward running ordinary securities on the blockchain.