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Why big tech IPOs — starting with SpaceX next week — could leave smaller retail investors holding the bag

Nypost · · 918 words · By Charles Gasparino
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Why big tech IPOs — starting with SpaceX next week — could leave smaller retail investors holding the bag See more of our coverage in your search results.

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Add The New York Post on GoogleSmall investors with money in index funds could be left holding the bag when the AI investment frenzy – slated to kick off next week with the giant SpaceX IPO – eventually comes crashing down.

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That’s the warning from savvy investors including former Wall Street trader Lawrence McDonald, founder of the Bear Traps Report.

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The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Appeal to Fear, Exaggeration / Hyperbole: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 11 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “neither SpaceX, OpenAI nor Anthropic are turning a profit.”
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Evidence is contradictory. One source states Starlink (part of SpaceX) is 'already a highly profitable business,' while another states SpaceX's AI business is 'burning through $1 billion every month.' There is no consensus on the overall profitability of all three entities.
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 10, 2026 ... SpaceX gives you exposure to Elon Musk and the success of Starlink, which is already a highly profitable business. Anthropic has impressed me ...
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZaaOSooFPH/?hl=en
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 23, 2026 ... But developing AI is ludicrously expensive. SpaceX's AI business, for instance, is burning through $1 billion every month. OpenAI lost a ...
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/06/spacex-ipo-tech-co…
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 3, 2026 ... Anthropic has shown a path to profitability if you beleive it I guess Enterprise is adopting and faster than they are adopting even copilot. Of ...
https://www.reddit.com/r/business/comments/1tuzc3k/can_the_s…
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Claim 2: “All will be coming public this year starting with SpaceX, which slated to price next Thursday and start trading as early as Friday.”
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Multiple web sources (LinkedIn, Medium, and another search result) report that SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic are all expected to go public in the same period (2026), with SpaceX having already filed.
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web search NEUTRAL — SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI are poised to make their public market debuts this year, with OpenAI filing as soon as Friday.In one day: SpaceX moved closer to IPO. OpenAI prepared for a public filing. …
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/ai-titans-openai-anthrop…
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web search NEUTRAL — But with three A.I. titans — SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic — now officially seeking to go public, the move raises big questions about what that will mean for the industry and for investors.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/business/dealbook/openai-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Anthropic, SpaceX, and OpenAI are all expected to make their stock market debuts in 2026, potentially as three trillion-dollar listings in the same year.SpaceX filed to go public in April, and OpenAI …
https://medium.com/@Fanigee/three-ai-giants-are-about-to-go-…
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Claim 3: “The people who run Nasdaq and the Russell indices already have a fast-track rule in place.”
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Multiple sources (Nasdaq, Charles Schwab, and a letter to FTSE Russell) confirm that index providers like Nasdaq and Russell are implementing or have 'fast-track' rules for large IPOs to enter indices more quickly.
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 4, 2026 ... Three major index providers looking at new “fast-track” addition rules · Fast-tracking large additions helps investors · Fast-track rules help ...
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/new-fast-tracks-account-olde…
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web search NEUTRAL — However, per recent announcements from Nasdaq, FTSE Russell, and others, some index providers are changing their rules to allow faster entry for large IPOs.
https://www.schwab.com/learn/story/some-indexes-accelerate-e…
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 11, 2026 ... As disclosed in the May 26, 2026, market consultation results, the fast-entry rule allows newly listed companies with investable market ...
https://comptroller.nyc.gov/reports/letter-to-the-london-sto…
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Claim 4: “SpaceX is being valued at $2 trillion”
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Multiple independent news sources (CNBC, NY Post, Flipboard) report that SpaceX is eyeing or targeting a valuation of approximately $2 trillion.
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cross reference SUPPORTS — SpaceX is reportedly seeking to go public in June and eyeing a $2 trillion valuation.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/16/sens-warren-and-blumenthal-i…
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cross reference SUPPORTS — The Starbase, Texas-headquartered rocket maker boosted its target initial public offering valuation above $2 trillion
https://nypost.com/2026/04/03/business/elon-musk-asks-spacex…
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cross reference SUPPORTS — Even at an unprecedented valuation of almost $2 trillion, shares …
https://flipboard.com/topic/news/united-airlines-flight-to-s…
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Claim 5: “Anthropic, which is the company behind Dario Amodei’s “Claude””
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Wikipedia explicitly confirms that Anthropic is the company behind the Claude AI series and was co-founded by Dario Amodei.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Dario Amodei (born 1983) is an American artificial intelligence (AI) researcher and entrepreneur. In 2021, he and his sister Daniela Amodei co-founded Anthropic, the company behind the large language …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dario_Amodei
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Daniela Amodei (born 1987) is an American entrepreneur and the president of Anthropic, an artificial intelligence (AI) company known for its Claude series of large language models. She co-founded Anth…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniela_Amodei
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Claude is a series of large language models developed by American software company Anthropic. Named after Claude Shannon, Claude was released as an AI-based chatbot in March 2023. It is also used in A…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_(AI)
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Claim 6: “the S&P is weighing a rule that allows immediate entry to the index.”
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The search results for 'S&P' returned generic information about the letter 'S' and did not provide any information regarding S&P index rule changes.
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web search NEUTRAL — S (minuscule: s) is the nineteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and other latin alphabets worldwide.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/S
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web search NEUTRAL — On calendars, S is most times the short letter for Saturday or Sunday, or the month September. In chemistry, S is the symbol for sulphur. In Wheel of Fortune, S is one of the six letters given to any …
https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/S
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web search NEUTRAL — Jul 30, 2020 · Learn to recognize the upper and lowercase letter S, how to write the letter S s and the sound that letter S makes. This series incorporates the modalities of visual, auditory and...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vniciwSnfH8
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Claim 7: “SpaceX [is] slated to price next Thursday and start trading as early as Friday.”
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Web search results from BBC News and other sources confirm that SpaceX has gone public and is trading, with specific mentions of the IPO's dramatic first day and its presence on Nasdaq screens.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — X, formerly known as Twitter, is an American microblogging and social networking service, headquartered in Bastrop, Texas. It is one of the world's largest social media platforms and one of the most-v…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_(social_network)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — As of July 11, 2026, rockets from the Falcon 9 family have been launched 675 times, with 672 full mission successes, two mission failures during launch, one mission failure before launch, and one part…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Falcon_9_and_Falcon_He…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — From June 2010, to the end of 2019, Falcon 9 was launched 77 times, with 75 full mission successes, one partial failure and one total loss of the spacecraft. In addition, one rocket and its payload we…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Falcon_9_and_Falcon_He…
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Claim 8: “OpenAI, run by AI pioneer Sam Altman”
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Wikipedia and CNBC both confirm that Sam Altman is the CEO of OpenAI.
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web search NEUTRAL — Altman co-founded OpenAI in 2015 and became its CEO in 2019, a role that made him a prominent figure of the AI boom. He supervised the launch of ChatGPT in ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Altman
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web search NEUTRAL — Nov 5, 2025 ... COWEN: Now, the last two months or so, there have been so many deals involving OpenAI, and I'm not even talking about the globetrotting. A lot ...
https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam-altman-2/
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web search NEUTRAL — Sep 26, 2025 ... I really doubt that Sam Altman really needs to be “running” OpenAI. Certainly there are some decisions to be made occasionally, ...
https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Sam-Altman-always-doing-intervi…
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Claim 9: “SpaceX might be worth $1.8 trillion or more when it goes public next week”
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Claim 10: “Nasdaq after the dot-com crash of 2000 fell to a low of around 1,100 in 2002.”
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While Wikipedia provides general information about the Nasdaq, the provided evidence snippets do not specifically mention the 1,100 low in 2002.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Nasdaq-100 is a stock market index made up of equity securities issued by 102 of the largest non-financial companies listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange. The Nasdaq-100 is often abbreviated as NDX…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasdaq-100
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Nasdaq, Inc. ( NAZ-dak) is an American multinational financial services corporation providing data, analytics, software, exchange capabilities, and advisory services to corporate clients, investment …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasdaq,_Inc.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Nasdaq Stock Market (formerly National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations) is an American stock exchange. It is the largest stock exchange by market capitalization and the firs…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasdaq
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Claim 11: “Facebook was profitable when it went public in 2012 with a $100 billion valuation”
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Wikipedia and web search results confirm Facebook's IPO occurred in May 2012 and that the company was associated with a $100 billion valuation at the time of filing.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Messenger (formerly known as Facebook Messenger) is an American proprietary instant messaging service developed by Meta Platforms, the company that operates Facebook. Originally developed as Facebook …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Messenger
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The technology company Facebook, Inc., now known as Meta Platforms, held its initial public offering (IPO) on Friday, May 18, 2012, with shares trading on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol FB. The IPO wa…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_public_offering_of_Fac…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Meta Platforms, Inc. (doing business as Meta) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Menlo Park, California. Meta owns and operates several prominent social media platforms a…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_Platforms
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