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Bank running a $12B tech budget with a bottom-up AI approach, 4,000 trained AI stewards and reported near-90% employee AI tool usage.
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Capital spending of $9.98bn in one quarter bought 45% AI cloud growth, a 12% segment margin and a $6.58bn free cash outflow. The trade is now explicit in the accounts.
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The larger 2030 tranche carries a coupon of no more than 0.5 percent, and Nebius is also swapping older convertibles for shares. The build-out is priced in dilution, not cash flow.
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The largest bond sale in AMD's history lands months after it committed up to $5bn to Anthropic and 2GW of MI450s. AMD says the proceeds are for general purposes.
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Wall Street's AI spending has become table stakes, and the disclosure is now about differentiation: who can show a return that a rival with a bigger budget cannot copy.
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