Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
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SpaceX IPOs at $2.89T Market Cap, US Govt Suspends Fable & Mythos 5, Altman Delays OpenAI’s IPO | EP #265
2 hour 1 minutes Posted Jun 18, 2026 at 3:06 pm.
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This episode is about three huge shifts: SpaceX’s record IPO and the rise of trillionaire-scale capital, the U.S. government’s direct intervention in frontier AI access, and OpenAI’s move toward agentic self-direction with Codex.
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Peter H. Diamandis, MD, is the Founder of XPRIZE, Singularity University, ZeroG, and A360
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*Recorded on June 16th, 2026
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