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The AI industry through the markets lens: capex, chips, earnings and funding.
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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Lam Research delivered record $8.22 billion revenue and its first 40 percent operating margin, then fell 12 percent as supply-chain bottlenecks capped the December outlook and raised the question of whether chip equipment, not AI demand, is now the binding constraint.
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The Treasury Department proposed a rule on October 22 that would require US persons to notify or seek approval before investing in Chinese and other adversary AI, semiconductor, quantum and related technology, extending the federal decoupling of AI capital flows.
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SK Hyper, the data center arm of South Korea's SK Group, is in talks with big tech firms and financial investors to fund a $350 billion AI infrastructure buildout, targeting 15 gigawatts of capacity in the country by 2035.
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Google expanded its Voltus agreement to a 1 gigawatt virtual power plant in PJM, adding 1,070 MW of flexible capacity and marking one of the largest known distributed capacity portfolios a hyperscaler has deployed to date.
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DeepSeek is raising about $15 billion, roughly 100 billion yuan, in one of China's largest AI funding rounds, a Bloomberg report said, two days after the US ordered federal civilian agencies to remove its models from government systems.
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Meta's third quarter 10-Q filed Thursday discloses $810.25 billion in future spending on AI computing and data center leases and contracts: $454.52 billion in non-cancelable commitments and $355.73 billion in leases that have not yet started. The single-quarter jump turns a capex question into a decade-long balance sheet commitment.
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Meta Platforms fell 6.5% intraday Thursday after raising the floor of its 2026 AI capex outlook to $135 billion and posting negative free cash flow, a read investors applied across Nvidia, Amazon and Alphabet.
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OpenAI and Google Cloud are partnering to sell the GPT-6 frontier family and Codex through Google's Model Garden, making Google the only hyperscaler with all three leading closed-source LLMs and letting enterprises draw OpenAI usage against GCP commitments.
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Meta raised the floor of its 2026 AI capex plan to $135 billion, reported Q3 revenue up 26% to $64.60 billion, and approved a non-voting share class to fund the buildout, all while a new federal push to make large data centers generate their own electricity hardens the power constraint.
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Nvidia's new DSX POD squeezes seven Vera Rubin racks into a container and moves months of on-site integration into the factory, which the company says can pull deployment at a prepared site from six months down to 14 days and start the revenue clock earlier.
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