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General Fusion Becomes First Fusion Firm to List on Nasdaq
General Fusion has debuted on Nasdaq, becoming the first fusion-energy company to go public on the exchange. The listing arrives as global private fusion funding hit $4.5 billion for the year, reflecting investor appetite for long-horizon energy bets increasingly framed as the power source for AI-scale data centers. Fusion remains pre-commercial, and public-market scrutiny will now test whether the sector’s engineering timelines can survive quarterly reporting pressure.