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On June 3, Alphabet Inc.—Google’s parent company—announced it’s boosting the total proceeds from its planned stock offering to $847.5 billion, up from an initial $800 billion. The financing is earmarked to cover surging artificial intelligence (AI) computing expenses. The deal breaks into three parts: a $400 billion Market-On-Close (MOC) stock issuance launching in the third quarter, $300 billion in underwritten common stock and mandatory convertible preferred stock, and a $10 billion direct private placement to Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway. Joint underwriters include Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, and Morgan Stanley, making this one of the largest equity financing deals in global history. Behind the massive fundraising is Alphabet’s deepening investment in chip development and infrastructure. CFO Anat Ashkenazi revealed 2027 capital expenditures will be far higher than 2026’s $190 billion budget—itself double the prior year’s figure. Bloomberg Industry analyst Mandeep Singh predicts

June 3: Per Bitget market data, U.S. stocks opened lower. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 0.5%, the S&P 500 slipped 0.1%, and the Nasdaq edged down 0.05%. Huang Renxun once again recommended buying Marvell Technology (MRVL), whose shares surged 9.3%—coming on the heels of a more than 30% gain in the prior trading session. Intel rallied 8.9% following five straight losing sessions, while Broadcom advanced 1.2% and is set to announce its second-quarter (Q2) earnings report after today’s market close.

June 3 Update: Changjiang Securities announced a temporary suspension on Tuesday of new securities account openings and additional position entries across all product lines in mainland China, limiting clients to only sell or close existing positions during the ban period. This move comes weeks after the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), China’s top securities watchdog, announced on May 22 that three firms — Tiger Brokers (NZ) Limited, Futu Securities International (Hong Kong) Limited and Changjiang Securities (Hong Kong) Limited — conducted illegal cross-border business activities that violated Chinese securities, fund and futures laws, disrupted market order, and must be resolutely cracked down upon. The CSRC stated it intends to seize all illegal gains of these firms and their related domestic and overseas entities, and impose severe legal penalties in accordance with relevant regulations.

On June 3rd, Tether partnered with Fasset to launch the world’s first gold-backed Visa debit card. The card lets users spend fiat at any global Visa merchant, with eligible transactions earning up to 6% cashback in XAUT—Tether’s gold-backed token. It also supports real-time conversion between XAUT, USDT, and fiat currencies, plus an auto-round-up feature that turns spare change from purchases into XAUT investments, making passive gold accumulation effortless through everyday spending. Tether has committed up to $1 million worth of XAUT for ecosystem rewards to boost adoption of tokenized gold in emerging markets. The total market capitalization of tokenized gold now exceeds $5.3 billion, with XAUT accounting for more than $2.6 billion of that figure.

June 3 Update: According to Bitget market data, Navitas (NVTS) expanded its pre-market trading gains to over 28%, with the stock price topping $31 and market capitalization exceeding $7.2 billion. Navitas is included in NVIDIA’s AI Factory full-industry chain stock pool. The company recently announced its official entry into the NVIDIA MGX AI Factory ecosystem, where it will deliver high-efficiency power solutions for NVIDIA’s next-generation AI servers and rack-level platforms. Leveraging Gallium Nitride (GaN) and Silicon Carbide (SiC) power device technology, Navitas focuses on supporting NVIDIA’s 800VDC high-voltage direct current (DC) distribution architecture. This architecture significantly boosts power conversion efficiency, cuts energy consumption, and increases power density—enabling AI data centers to achieve higher performance while lowering operating costs.

June 3rd: Leading crypto and AI investment firm Variant announced it has closed its Variant 4 fundraising, hitting a total size of $222 million. The fund will continue to focus on early-stage investments and provide long-term support to its portfolio companies, with a core investment theme centered on “AI + Crypto + Autonomy.” Variant founder Jesse Walden stated that the traditional “crypto investor” label will gradually disappear, as the industry shifts toward a unified broader theme of “autonomy.” This encompasses any application that grants users greater sovereignty—such as decentralized finance (DeFi), cryptocurrency, and AI agents. Walden added that cryptography will serve as foundational infrastructure, and its decentralized principles will gain renewed relevance in the AI era, particularly in the intersection of AI agents and blockchain technology. Previously, Variant’s first three funds focused solely on the pure crypto track, with high-profile investments in well-known projec