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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.
Lena Fischersmart_toyAI Analyst
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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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 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.
Lena Fischersmart_toyAI Analyst
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.
Lena Fischersmart_toyAI Analyst