| |  | Mar 31, 2026 | | | | | Supported by |  | | | | | | Happy Tuesday! Nasdaq's new rules could allow SpaceX to join the index more quickly after an IPO. Microsoft's new Copilot upgrades combine models from Anthropic and OpenAI. Apple kicks out a vibe coding app from the App Store.
| | | | Nasdaq will change a rule for its flagship stock index to allow newly public companies to gain entry much more quickly, in a move that would help SpaceX and other companies expected to have gigantic initial public offerings this year. In a rule change outlined Monday and effective May 1, Nasdaq-listed companies will be able to join the index after 15 days of trading, down from three months currently. Nasdaq said that industry professionals it had surveyed were "mostly supportive" of the proposal, but that some had raised concerns about whether the change would reduce price discovery for IPOs or "direct passive investment flows to unproven or overvalued securities." In addition to the fast entry change, Nasdaq will remove a rule requiring 10% of companies' shares to be publicly floated. The rule change comes as SpaceX lays the groundwork to go public as soon as June, with bankers discussing anIPO that could raise more than $75 billion at a valuation of more than $1.25 trillion, The Information has reported. The Nasdaq rule change would likely force managers of large passively managed funds that track the Nasdaq 100 to buy SpaceX shares shortly after it goes public. It could also drive up demand for shares of OpenAI and Anthropic if those companies follow through with plans to go public later this year. | | | | Microsoft on Monday announced new features in its 365 Copilot software, which uses AI features from both OpenAI and Anthropic to automate work in its Office and Teams products. One new feature, called Critique, uses OpenAI's models to compile research on a topic, and then directs Anthropic's models to double check that work, which Microsoft said leads to more accurate results. Another new feature called Council lets users see responses to the same query from different OpenAI and Anthropic models side by side and choose which is best. The upgrades come as Microsoft aims to convince more businesses to pay extra to use Copilot in their existing Office 365 subscriptions. Microsoft said earlier this year that it has 15 million paying users of 365 Copilot, which costs an additional $30 per user per month on top of an Office 365 subscription. By contrast, more than 450 million Office users worldwide. Microsoft has also been racing to incorporate more features into Copilot that resemble Anthropic's viral Claude Cowork product released earlier this year. | | | | Last week, Apple removed vibe coding app Anything from the App Store, The Information reported Monday. Apple told the app maker that it had violated an App Store rule prohibiting apps from rewriting code that changes the functionality of the app. The move comes in the midst of a broader crackdown by Apple on vibe coding apps in the App Store, The Information reported earlier this month. In recent months, the company has begun stopping vibe coding apps from making updates. It's not certain why Apple decided to just remove Anything from the App Store, while allowing earlier versions of the other apps to remain in it. | | | | DeepSeek's AI chatbot suffered its longest outage since the Chinese company's flagship model went viral early last year, with users reporting that both its website and app were down for over 10 hours from Sunday night. The service was restored Monday morning. DeepSeek offered no public explanation. Such disruptions can stem from a range of causes, including malfunctioning servers or bugs introduced through a software update. The timing of the outage has sparked speculation in developer communities that the downtime may be related to backend preparations for DeepSeek's next-generation model. The global AI industry has been closely watching for a new release, but the company has given no indication of when that might happen. | | | | Alibaba Group has released the new generation of its large language model that can understand text, audio, images and video. But this time, the Chinese tech giant is releasing the model, Qwen3.5-Omni, as a proprietary model—unlike its open-source predecessor. The fact that Alibaba decided not to open-source Qwen3.5-Omni signals a potential change in the company's AI model strategy, which has focused heavily on open-source models in the past few years. Now, instead of allowing users to download the latest model for free, the company is focusing on generating more revenue from enterprise customers who will pay for it. Alibaba's previous-generation Omni model released in September, Qwen3-Omni, was an open-source model. Alibaba's AI business is going through major changes after its top AI researcher Junyang Lin, who helped establish the company as a global leader in open-source models, left earlier this month, raising questions from Qwen users about whether Alibaba will continue to commit to its open-source strategy. Two weeks ago, Alibaba announced a major reorganization of its AI businesses by moving all of its major AI-related teams under one new division managed by CEO Eddie Wu. Alibaba said its new Qwen3.5-Omni, which can process 10 hours of continuous audio input, will be suitable for diverse applications, including generating video captions, managing live-streaming content and powering customer service voice assistants. The company said the new model can understand input in 113 languages and dialects and generate speech content in 36 languages. | | | | Apple may have prematurely launched its artificial intelligence product in China. In an iOS update this week, some Chinese users noticed that Apple's AI features, called Apple Intelligence, finally arrived on their iPhones. But soon afterwards, the update was pulled, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman and social media posts from users in China. Apple first launched Apple Intelligence in the U.S. in late 2024, and has been rolling out the AI features out around the world since then. China—Apple's second-biggest market after the U.S.—has been an exception though. To run the service in that country, Apple needs a local AI partner and the country's government also has to provide regulatory approval. Apple hasn't announced such actions yet. | | | | Starcloud, a Washington state-based startup developing solar-powered data centers in space, said Monday it has raised $170 million in funding at a $1.1 billion valuation including the investment. Benchmark and EQT Ventures, a VC firm that spun out of private equity giant EQT, led the Series A funding round into Starcloud. The company participated in Y Combinator just over a year ago. The new round was split into two tranches; the first was led by Benchmark with participation from EQT, and the latter was co-led by both of the investors, the company said. Starcloud launched its first satellite with an Nvidia Hopper AI server chip in November. Its fundraise comes as public and private market investors become interested in the possibility of space-based data centers. SpaceX, which aims to file its initial public offering prospectus with regulators soon, has proposed launching 1 million satellites powering an orbital data center. Elon Musk has said that space-based data centers will be more economical than those on Earth due to more abundant solar energy and cheaper cooling. | | | | Federal prosecutors in Manhattan are exploring whether certain bets on prediction markets have violated insider trading and other laws, CNN reported, citing unnamed sources. Officials for the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York recently met with representatives of Polymarket to discuss how existing laws could be applied to potential misconduct, the report said. Prosecutors are investigating well-timed trades, including predicting the capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, one person told the outlet. No companies have been accused of wrongdoing. The probe represents an escalation of regulatory scrutiny on prediction markets, which already face legal challenges from several states that claim such platforms offer illegal gambling. A spokesperson for the U.S. attorney's office told CNN that "with regard to so-called 'prediction markets,' our office has made clear that various laws, including insider trading laws, anti-money laundering laws, laws prohibiting manipulation, and various anti-fraud laws are applicable to a wide range of observed activity." Polymarket told CNN that it "proactively works with regulators and law enforcement to reinforce" its standards of market integrity. Kalshi's head enforcement, Robert DeNault, said on X that insider trading and market manipulation are violations of Kalshi's rulebook. | | | | | Popular articles By Stephanie Palazzolo and Amir Efrati
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