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Top stories today:
- Musk, Ramaswamy forming Trump’s DOGE with Silicon Valley cohort
- CoreWeave said to raise $3B+ at $35B+ valuation in Q2 2025 U.S. IPO
- Amazon doubles down on Anthropic with $4B investment
- Tim Cook closes ties with Trump through direct phone calls, meals
- SEC collects $8.2B in fines, with Terraform Labs contributing $4.5B
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1. Musk, Ramaswamy on move to form Trump’s DOGE team with Silicon Valley cohort
PE exec. Antonio Gracias and Boring Company President Steve Davis are involved in planning.
Palantir’s Joe Lonsdale and investor Marc Andreessen, among others, are working on technical challenges.
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3. CoreWeave said to raise $3B+ at $35B+ valuation in Q2 2025 U.S. IPO
Nov.: CoreWeave’s $650M secondary share sale was closed at a $23B valuation.
4. Amazon doubles down on Anthropic with $4B investment
