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Samsung became the first technology company to clear KRW 100 trillion in quarterly operating profit on surging AI memory demand, and its record quarter and 2027 supply call shape what comes next.
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Anthropic's first public prospectus reveals $16.3 billion in first-half revenue, an 85% gross margin and a valuation target above $1 trillion, on the same week Microsoft priced its first bond sale since 2017 to fund AI capex and chipmakers put $4 billion into Meta.
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AI server revenue rose 78% to $7.3 billion in Intel's third quarter, yet a weak $15-16 billion fourth-quarter forecast sent the stock down more than 20% in extended trading after Thursday's report.
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AI data center demand from Microsoft and Oracle pushed WEC Energy's five-year capital plan to $47.5 billion, a $10 billion increase, and the utility raised 2026 earnings guidance on the strength of the buildout.
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AWS grew 39% to a $184 billion run rate, its fastest quarter in five years, yet AMZN fell 4.25% as trailing twelve month free cash flow swung to a $42.4 billion outflow on the AI infrastructure bill.
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Cohere's Series E targets up to CAD 7 billion at a CAD 35.7 billion valuation, with Canada taking a direct equity stake of up to CAD 1.6 billion.
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Oracle's AI financing cap lifted neocloud stocks on Oct 29 even as Alphabet slid on negative free cash flow, a balance-sheet split.
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Naver has closed a combined $10bn AI-factory package this week, with Brookfield putting up $9bn in computing-infrastructure financing and Nvidia's $1bn strategic equity stake now unlocking a 1,000-megawatt buildout across South Korea and beyond.
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Alphabet swung to $9.07 billion of negative free cash flow in Q3 as AI spending gathered pace, its first top-and-bottom-line miss in nearly four years.
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Microsoft's Q1 fiscal 2027 report shows AI capex nearly doubled to $39.4 billion, Azure revenue up 48%, and commercial bookings rising 73% to $677 billion.
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Vertiv shares jumped nearly 13% and Flex roughly 6% on October 28 as both AI data center supply-chain players beat, raised guidance and put numbers on an accelerating buildout.
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China's draft AI export curbs, reported by Reuters October 28, would gate 23 AI-related technologies from advanced models to chip design, and three tests decide what is covered: 10 to the 26th training calculations, 2 trillion parameters or a world top-10 ranking.
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SK Hynix posted a record 83.3 trillion won quarterly operating profit, up 632 percent year over year, and said AI memory demand now runs roughly double its supply, with high-bandwidth memory and DRAM sold out until 2029.
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At Oracle AI World on October 27, Oracle said Google TPUs, multi-gigawatt Nvidia Vera Rubin systems and Cerebras inference will run on its cloud in 2027 and beyond, adding alternative accelerators for customers while OpenAI integration expands.
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Vertiv completed its $1.45 billion purchase of UtilityInnovation Group on Oct 27, 2026, buying the power controls AI data centers run out of first, with up to $1.15 billion more tied to earnings.
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Celestica's Q3 revenue rose 83 percent to $5.83 billion and management set a $40 billion 2027 target, the clearest read yet on AI hardware demand before megacap capex week.
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Bank of America, Blackstone, Citi and Morgan Stanley committed $63 billion through a Broadcom-led structure to buy Broadcom XPU accelerators and lease them to Anthropic, one of the largest debt deals tied to the AI buildout, with deliveries starting in 2027.
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Nvidia will invest $3 billion in Meta's equity offering and expand their partnership on the Muse AI model family, the clearest sign yet that chip suppliers are helping to bankroll their largest customers' compute buildouts.
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Verizon signed a more than $2.0 billion AI infrastructure deal with Amazon Web Services on October 26, giving AI buildout a new fiber connectivity lane as the telco beat on subscribers and raised guidance.
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Anthropic's S-1 shows compute and infrastructure falling to about 55% of revenue in the first half of 2026, with the operating loss narrowing to $693 million even as a $72.4 billion non-cash fair value charge drives a headline $80.7 billion net loss.
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Meta filed an up to $95 billion equity plan to fund its AI buildout and Anthropic's IPO prospectus revealed an $80.7 billion first-half loss, two of the largest AI capital events in years on the same day.
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Standard Chartered projects debt will fund about 40 percent of AI capital expenditure in 2027, up from roughly 25 percent in 2026, turning the AI trade into a rates bet ahead of Big Tech earnings.
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Meta lifted its 2026 AI capex floor to $135 billion while free cash flow went negative, and SpaceX closed $40 billion of GPU debt the same week. Here is what the financing split means for the chip complex.
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SpaceX closed $40 billion in debt financing to buy AI chips, Musk said on Oct 25, the largest single disclosed GPU raise and a fresh marker for how much AI computing capital has tightened.
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