- Oppenheimer raised its target price for SpaceX to $ 280 from $ 250 while maintaining an Outperform rating due to expected growth in AI usage and compute economics.
- The bullish outlook is supported by SpaceX's AI platform integrations, access to Nvidia GPUs, and the acquisition of Cursor to enhance agentic coding logic.
- The firm projects Nvidia's Rubin chips will achieve a payback period of about a year, though increased capital expenditures remain a key risk.
- On September 2, major US stock indices closed higher, with the Nasdaq rising 0.45%, the S&P 500 gaining 0.46%, and the Dow Jones increasing 0.56%.
- Among top US companies with a market value exceeding 100 billion, Dell Technologies surged 15.81% with a transaction volume of 170.9 billion dollars.
- Palo Alto Networks experienced a decline of 9.28% alongside fluctuations in other tracked large-cap stocks like Novo Nordisk and Palantir Tech.
- MapQuest became the No. 1 overall app on the U.S. App Store after refusing to comply with a presidential executive order to rename Lake Ontario.
- The mapping application recorded an estimated 632,000 U.S. downloads following its public stance against the renaming, contrasting with larger competitors like Google Maps and Apple Maps.
- Over 56 % of the app's year-to-date U.S. downloads occurred between August 27 and September 1, 2026, as consumers downloaded the app to show support.
- Space Exploration Technologies Corp. reshuffled its data-center leadership following engineering concerns and reliability problems at facilities in Tennessee and Mississippi.
- The leadership change occurs as Elon Musk accelerates AI infrastructure expansion to meet a Sep. 30 capacity deadline for Google’s $920 million-a-month compute deal.
- Despite challenges including temporary cooling systems and outages, the company reported 1.4 gigawatts of compute capacity at the end of June after spending $15.8 billion on AI infrastructure in the second quarter.