# AI Firms Face S&P 500 IPO Barriers Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-week-s-tech-ai-news-tech-news-openai-chatgpt-google-gemini-7568146/ai-firms-face-s-p-500-ipo-barriers Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-week-s-tech-ai-news-tech-news-openai-chatgpt-google-gemini-7568146/ai-firms-face-s-p-500-ipo-barriers.md Podcast: [This Week's Tech: AI News, Tech News, OpenAI, ChatGPT, Google Gemini](https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-week-s-tech-ai-news-tech-news-openai-chatgpt-google-gemini-7568146) Published: 2026-06-05T21:24:43+00:00 Episode link: https://rss.com/podcasts/this-week-in-tech/2890952 Audio file: https://content.rss.com/episodes/354015/2890952/this-week-in-tech/2026_06_05_21_19_50_2477a871-536a-4959-9c04-3d8cd8785955.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/this-week-s-tech-ai-news-tech-news-openai-chatgpt-google-gemini-7568146/episodes/ai-firms-face-s-p-500-ipo-barriers Duration seconds: 793 ## Resource In this episode, we examine the S&P 500's refusal to allow SpaceX's fast-track entry, which also impacts OpenAI and Anthropic’s IPO prospects. We also discuss Google's $920 million monthly deal with SpaceX for AI compute power and escalating enterprise spending on AI token budgets. Chapters 00:00 Introduction 00:16 S&P 500 Denies SpaceX Fast-Track 00:27 Google's Compute Deal with SpaceX 00:33 Enterprises Exceed AI Budgets 00:53 Brian Chesky's AI Lab 01:46 Investors in Competing AI Firms Show Links Get the top 80+ AI Models for $8.99 at AI Box: ⁠⁠https://aibox.ai How I Grow and Scale My Business with AI: https://www.skool.com/aihustle Get the AI Chat Daily Newsletter: https://www.aichatdaily.com/newsletter ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/this-week-s-tech-ai-news-tech-news-openai-chatgpt-google-gemini-7568146/episodes/ai-firms-face-s-p-500-ipo-barriers/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-week-s-tech-ai-news-tech-news-openai-chatgpt-google-gemini-7568146/ai-firms-face-s-p-500-ipo-barriers.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.