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Wed, Oct 28
Meta expands AI equity funding as its $25 billion share sale draws fivefold demand
Access to capital markets is becoming more consequential to leading AI companies, with financing structure and timing influencing expansion speed.
Mon, Oct 26
Google and Voltus expand virtual power plant plans to gigawatt scale
Buying demand flexibility is becoming another way for data centers to secure grid capacity.
Sun, Oct 25
Meta approves non-voting Class C stock, adding an instrument for funding and acquisitions
Large AI investment programs influence both the amount companies raise and the balance between financing instruments and voting control.
Sun, Oct 18
As Anthropic's revenue growth slows before its IPO, some investors cut valuation expectations to about $1.5 trillion
When a model company goes public, investors buy not just revenue growth but a huge compute bill signed in advance.
Thu, Oct 15
Modal raises a $750 million Series D at a $15.75 billion valuation as annualized revenue tops $1 billion
The more agents there are, the bigger the business of giving them somewhere to work; sandboxes, once an overlooked piece of infrastructure, are becoming a billion-dollar revenue line.
CoreWeave bond yields near 15% and its stock falls 15.5% as AI infrastructure debt rattles investors
However large the order book, a company has to survive until the cash arrives; the bond market is now using interest rates to reprice how fast AI infrastructure can expand.
Apple closes above a $5 trillion market value for the first time, the second company after Nvidia
On a day when companies borrowing to build compute were sold off and Apple, which sells the hardware, hit a record, the market was sorting out who carries AI's costs and who collects its demand.
Sun, Sep 20
Investment & Financing Weekly (Week 3 of September): Temporal closes a $550M round, turning "agents that stay up and running long-term" into infrastructure
Once agents touch payments, approvals and fulfillment, durable execution moves from a developer-tool budget into enterprise infrastructure.
Fri, Sep 18
Anthropic says Claude now leads 26% of AI R&D work, up from 1% in six months
Claude's internal R&D value is shifting from how much code it writes to how many tasks it can close.
Sun, Sep 13
Fab2 Raises $500M to Turn Small Chip Fabs Into a Repeatable Product
The AI compute boom is rewarding methods that compress fab timelines, making integrated equipment and process development venture-backable again.
Celero Raises $275M as AI Clusters Turn Optical Links Into a Bottleneck
Data centers do not lack isolated compute; they lack bandwidth that makes compute work together, making optical interconnects a new destination for AI hardware capital.
Mon, Sep 7
DeepSeek to run inference on 160,000 Ascend 950DT chips in Ulanqab while training stays on Nvidia
Training on Nvidia, inference on domestic silicon — where that line sits is the real progress bar for China's compute self-sufficiency.
Sun, Sep 6
Crusoe Reportedly Raises About $3 Billion to Expand AI Infrastructure
Power access and construction speed can win orders. Sustaining a delivery premium requires converting commissioning schedules into cash receipts.
Fri, Aug 28
Nvidia closes up 8.74%, adding $442 billion in market value in a single day
Nvidia's quarterly guidance now functions as a macro data release; one company's earnings call sets the positioning for everyone else.
Sun, Aug 16
AI Cloud Company Volta Emerges from Stealth with $300M Raise
$300 million in equity has levered up a $5 billion financing pool and $10 billion in contracts — new cloud providers are already competing on capital structure.