Micron Technology has signed a comprehensive partnership with Anthropic covering high-performance memory supply and strategic investment to strengthen cooperation on AI infrastructure. The companies will work on AI architecture design, memory and storage supply-chain visibility and use of Anthropic’s generative AI model Claude. Micron joined Anthropic’s Series H funding round as a strategic investor. Anthropic raised $65 billion in May, lifting its valuation to $965 billion, and Claude has about 30 million monthly active users.

SpaceX shares fell for a second straight session as investors weighed its thin free float against looming lock-up expiries and heavy options activity. The stock dropped 3.57 percent on June 18 after nearly a 5 percent fall a day earlier, though it remains about 37 percent above its IPO price of $135. Markets are watching potential conversion of 20 percent to 30 percent of locked shares after second-quarter results and speculative trading in short-dated options.