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Martin Peers @ The Information 1 place · today 18:00 EDT

This should be an action-packed week in tech news, what with Nvidia’s first-quarter earnings, Google’s annual I/O developer conference and Meta Platforms’ scheduled layoffs of 8,000 employees. But it is Elon Musk who has the biggest week coming up.For one thing, the first test launch of SpaceX’s Starship in seven months is scheduled for Tuesday. A successful launch will boost investor interest in SpaceX’s upcoming IPO, not that it needs much of a lift. Meanwhile, chatter late last week was that SpaceX’s IPO

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