Day: April 24, 2026

The Amazon-backed nuclear reactor developer raised $1.02 billion in its ‌initial public offering on Thursday by selling 44.3 million shares in its upsized offering at $23 apiece, News.Az reports, citing Reuters.
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The stock opened at $30.11.
The listing marks a critical capital milestone for X-Energy as it races to deploy its “Xe-100” small modular reactors (SMRs), which are viewed by industry analysts as a vital solution for the first commercial ​SMR electrons to hit the U.S. grid by the end of the decade.
The X-Energy debut is supported by notable tailwinds ​in the power sector, as tech giants and data center developers pivot toward advanced nuclear energy to ⁠power energy-intensive artificial intelligence infrastructure as well as meet 24/7 carbon-free energy goals.
Nuclear reactor developers can offer reliability that solar and ​wind – hampered by intermittency – cannot yet match.
X-Energy Chief Executive Clay Sell said being a public company afforded it a number of benefits, ​including transparency with its customers and investors, equity to reward employees, and the ability to invest in and support its supply chain as it builds up its business in the coming years.
“We wanted to take this opportunity to build a larger balance sheet that allows us to reduce the risk of ​getting to scale.”

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Gannon Van Dyke, who prosecutors say was involved in planning and executing the January 3 capture of Maduro from his Caracas home, was indicted on Thursday in Manhattan federal ​court on charges including commodities fraud, wire fraud and unlawful use of confidential information for personal gain, News.Az reports, citing Reuters.
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In ​ordering Van Dyke, 38, released on Friday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Brian Meyers in Raleigh, ⁠North Carolina, also required him to surrender his passport and give up his firearms unless ordered to possess ​them through military command. Van Dyke did not enter a plea.
Van Dyke is due to appear on Tuesday before ​U.S. District Judge Margaret Garnett in Manhattan, who will oversee his case going forward. Reuters could not immediately identify his defense lawyer.
In the Justice Department’s first-ever filing of insider trading charges involving a prediction market, prosecutors said Van Dyke bet more than $33,000 on ​Polymarket between December 27, 2025, and January 2, 2026, that Maduro would soon be out of office and that ​U.S. forces would soon enter Venezuela.
At the time, the markets assigned low probabilities to those events, meaning the wagers earned him ‌more ⁠than $400,000, according to the indictment.
Van Dyke withdrew the funds from Polymarket after Maduro’s capture, prosecutors said. He later allegedly asked the prediction market to delete his account, in what prosecutors called an effort to conceal his identity.
Polymarket said it referred the matter to the Justice Department and cooperated with the investigation.
“We work proactively with all relevant authorities ​on any suspicious activity on ​our marketplace,” Polymarket founder ⁠and Chief Executive Shayne Coplan said in a post on X on Friday.
Van Dyke, a master sergeant with U.S. Army Special Forces, has been an active-duty soldier since ​2008 and is stationed at Fort Bragg in North Carolina.
Prosecutors said Van Dyke was ​involved in ⁠the “planning and execution” of the Maduro capture, but did not elaborate. The indictment made note of a photograph Van Dyke uploaded to his Google account in the early morning of January 3, hours after the U.S. military brought Maduro to ⁠the ​USS Iwo Jima amphibious assault ship.
“That photograph depicts Van Dyke on ​what appears to be the deck of a ship at sea, at sunrise wearing U.S. military fatigues, and carrying a rifle, standing alongside three ​other individuals wearing U.S. military fatigues,” the indictment read.

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