Ray Blanco:

SpaceX Is Joining the Nasdaq 100. Here’s What To Know

SpaceX joined the Nasdaq 100 index today, giving investors new exposure to the stock while triggering billions of dollars in automatic purchases by index funds.

The Nasdaq 100 is one of the world’s most widely followed technology benchmarks. There are over 200 investment products with $800 billion in assets that track it. Funds that track the index have to buy SpaceX in order to continue mirroring its performance. That means investors who hold Nasdaq 100-related funds will automatically gain exposure to SpaceX.

Nasdaq’s index methodology weights stocks based on the amount of shares available for trading. SpaceX went public with less than 5% of its shares available for trading, meaning its weight in the index will start out much smaller than its true market value.

If you own $100 worth of the Nasdaq 100, you would own about $1 worth of SpaceX shares. SpaceX’s weighting in the Nasdaq 100 could increase significantly over time as more shares become available for trading as lock-up periods expire and the supply of shares on the market increases.

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Greg Guenthner:

Facing U.S. Export Controls, China’s DeepSeek Plans To Make Its Own Chips

DeepSeek, the Chinese startup developing large language models that are competitive with those from U.S. companies like OpenAI and Anthropic, is planning to enter the silicon business.

DeepSeek has reportedly been working on a move into silicon for about a year. It has been meeting with potential partners in the hardware and silicon space and has been hiring engineers for the project.

The focus is on data center chips for inference, not training, and the goal is likely to reduce reliance on both Huawei and Nvidia.

Nvidia is the chipmaker for most AI companies in North America and Europe, but a U.S. export ban has prevented the company from achieving a similar presence in China. Huawei controls about half of the data center chip market there, and DeepSeek isn’t the only one trying to enter; Chinese tech giants like Alibaba and Baidu have been making moves, too.

While chip export controls in the U.S. are a major reason this is an urgent concern for DeepSeek, U.S.-based AI companies are making similar chip plans. For example, OpenAI and Broadcom jointly announced Jalapeño, the former’s first chip designed for inference at scale, just a couple of weeks ago.

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Davis Wilson:

Smart Glasses Banned in New York Courtrooms Statewide

Smart glasses will be banned in every New York courtroom starting July 20, according to an internal memo from the the New York State Unified Court System.

The ban applies to every courtroom in the state and comes after similar bans from some court systems in Pennsylvania, Hawaii, and Wisconsin. The New York ban appears to be the first in the U.S. that explicitly covers every court in a given state.

The ban will apply to any eyewear or headwear that contains recording devices, including either audio or video. Prescription glasses with the ability to record are also banned and anyone who arrives to court with them on will be required to leave them with court officers.

“The reason for this prohibition is to ensure that individuals cannot surreptitiously record court proceedings in violation of the New York State Civil Rights Law and applicable court rules,” reads the memo.

Recording devices are already banned in many courts across the country, even if they haven’t yet explicitly called out smart glasses.

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