📊 Market Pulse — Daily of 02 June 2026


💰 Blackstone closes its largest Asia private equity fund at over $13 billion
Blackstone has successfully raised $13.1 billion for its latest Asia private equity fund, surpassing its initial target of $10 billion. This marks the largest private equity fundraise for the firm in the region, indicating significant investor confidence in Asian markets.
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📈 Google Is Suddenly Competing For $80 Billion in Investor Money That Could Have Gone to the Big AI IPOs
Google's parent company, Alphabet, is employing novel strategies to secure substantial investor capital, reportedly around $80 billion. This move aims to fuel its expansion in the artificial intelligence sector, potentially diverting funds that might otherwise have gone to major AI IPOs.
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🚀 Will SpaceX still be a launch company after its historic IPO?
SpaceX has filed initial documentation with the SEC for its highly anticipated initial public offering (IPO). This move signals the company's transition from a private entity to a publicly traded one, raising questions about its future strategic direction beyond its core launch services.
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💻 Nvidia Releases Its Best Open AI Model Yet-But Still Lags Behind China
Nvidia has unveiled Nemotron 3 Ultra, its most advanced open AI model to date, which is considered the leading open-weight model developed in America. Despite its impressive capabilities, the model is reported to still be behind its Chinese counterparts in performance.


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🎓 Cognizant CEO is swimming against the tide on AI: he's hiring over 20,000 graduates this year and says AI tokenmaxxing is a 'vanity metric'
Cognizant CEO Ravi Kumar S. is taking a contrarian stance on AI's impact on jobs, planning to hire over 20,000 graduates this year. He dismisses concerns about AI causing mass unemployment, calling the idea of "AI tokenmaxxing" a "vanity metric."
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