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Japanese multinational conglomerate and investment holding company led by Masayoshi Son, known for its Vision Fund and stakes in firms like Arm and OpenAI.
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OpenAI, Meta and Apple launched personal AI agents within four weeks of each other, priced from free to $500 a month. Identical developer token prices from Google and OpenAI support the view that daily habits now decide the contest, though the adoption data so far is thin.
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OpenAI is in early talks to raise $30 billion at about $1.4 trillion, Bloomberg reported, 64% above its $852 billion valuation in March. The price lifts the stakes of SoftBank, Nvidia and Amazon on paper, while reports put the revenue run rate behind it anywhere from $40 billion to $70 billion.
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Anthropic is aiming for a November IPO after its draft prospectus showed an operating loss of about $8 billion on $4.6 billion of revenue last year. OpenAI is staying private until 2027, so Anthropic's listing puts a frontier lab's finances in front of public investors first.
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Campuses in Texas and Ohio are pursuing up to 27 gigawatts between them, against an average draw of about 36 gigawatts for all US data centers in 2025. For buyers of that capacity, the open budget line is the new-generation cost Indiana lawmakers want developers to share.
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Matt Mullenweg's 84% vote returned him to control of Automattic 33 hours after its board put him on leave. For businesses on WordPress.com, WooCommerce or Tumblr, that vote is the governance they are buying into, whoever he names to the board.
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Oracle sent Project Jupiter's developer a force majeure notice that lets it delay payments if the New Mexico campus misses its 2028 target. The site's gas pipeline and air permit are both still pending, so capacity plans built on that date need a fallback.
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Ten-year Treasury yields near 5.17%, the highest since 2007, raise the cost of the $4.1 trillion in AI debt JPMorgan expects through 2030. Oracle fell 7% this week as CoreWeave rose almost 8%, a split that follows Oracle's campus news more than rate exposure.
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Oracle shares fell more than 6% on Thursday after it sent a force majeure notice to Blue Owl over Project Jupiter, its New Mexico AI data center. The notice protects Oracle's cash if the site runs late and makes its 2028 date the one lenders and investors now watch.
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The guarantee that made a $500bn Ohio campus financeable is under half its old size, three weeks after the market marked Nvidia down 5% for offering it.
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Four raises worth $7.7 billion landed in one week, and the largest is not a fund with an exit clock. Thrive's roll-up vehicle sold roughly a sixth of itself at a $12 billion valuation.
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The head of data centers has left, the brief has been divided, and the part growing fastest is leasing capacity that somebody else already paid to build.
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An account freezing order under the Proceeds of Crime Act attaches to the money wherever it sits, which is why a crypto sponsor's opening instalment of £10,024,041.33 has been immobilised since January.
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Anthropic's economists sketch 15% annual US growth in 2030, and a colleague of a departing safety researcher puts the odds of extinction inside a decade above 10%. The one number with a market behind it is the firm's $600 billion year-end target.
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The September 21 directive tells Texas environmental regulators to stop all data center permits until two state audits finish. A dedicated gas plant behind the meter still needs an air permit from the same agency.
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SoftBank's data centre arm filed on September 1 to raise $5bn to $7bn on Nasdaq, and the price under discussion works out at about 180 times an annualized half-year revenue of $139m against $439bn of contracted backlog.
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Real spending on information processing equipment reached $752 billion against $748 billion of residential investment. The gap is half a percent, and the six-company capex forecast that supports the concentration argument is a separate series.
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The Financial Times reported a July company presentation that keeps OpenAI free-cash-flow negative every year to 2030, and on its own pace the money raised in March covers only the first three years of that.
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Michigan's package is $16.3bn anchored by PIMCO, Texas and Wisconsin about $38bn, New Mexico $18bn. Against a target of up to 10 gigawatts, the named money works out at roughly $7.2bn per gigawatt. The suppliers bill on megawatts energised.
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CoinShares marks stabilised data centre capacity at $27m a megawatt and energised mining capacity at $3m, and the conversion cost in between explains why Core Scientific, Keel, Cipher and IREN are walking away from hashrate.
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The August demonstration off Cape Muroto put a corner cube reflector on a Sceye airship and left the demanding part on the ground. There, a portable ranging system had to hold a narrow pulsed beam on a moving target and catch the return.
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