Pre-market News Summary for US Stocks: Tesla and SpaceX Merger Probability Reaches 55%; Metaplanet to Go Public via SPAC? Anthropic's Annual Revenue Below Expectations Triggers Market Sell-off

BlockBeats News, August 18th, a summary of important pre-market news in the US stock market on Tuesday:

1. Potentially impacted by Anthropic's lower-than-expected annual revenue, the pre-market trading of the three major stock indexes, storage, and optoelectronics sectors in the US was down. Bloomberg previously reported that as of the end of July, Anthropic's annualized revenue run rate reached about $65 billion. With some third-party data and AI optimistic expectations previously pointing to over $80 billion, $65 billion may indicate a slowing growth rate.

2. Summarizing 13F regulatory filing data, in the first half of 2026, over a dozen family offices held a total of at least $3.8 billion in SpaceX (SPCX.O) shares.

3. The market prediction is betting that the probability of a merger between Tesla (TSLA.O) and SpaceX (SPCX.O) before 2027 is 55%.

4. Meta Platforms (META.O) is facing a case alleging harm to child safety and privacy infringement, with the trial scheduled to begin on Tuesday local time.

5. The US stock metaverse company Super League (SLE.O) surged over 20% in pre-market trading. The company received an investment of 2100 BTC from Metaplanet and an additional $2.5 million in cash. After the transaction is completed, Metaplanet is expected to hold approximately 95.7% of Superplanet's shares.

6. The latest global fund manager survey from Bank of America shows that global fund managers' equity allocation has risen to nearly a five-year high, with a highly crowded market consensus. A net 56% of respondents are overweight on stocks, the highest since November 2021, with cash levels dropping to a historical low of 3.5%.

7. Baidu (BIDU.O) reported a revenue of 31.3 billion yuan in Q2 2026, compared to 32.713 billion yuan in the same period last year.

8. Goldman Sachs (GS.N): Announced an agreement to acquire LCN Capital Partners. The preliminary deal price is approximately $260 million. The proposed transaction also includes about $150 million in deferred and contingent considerations.