The US has offered $CEG $5 billion in financing to support nuclear power projects, Bloomberg reports The offer could help Constellation fund projects with large upfront costs. For shareholders, the key is whether it provides cheaper funding than the company could otherwise obtain—and which projects it would finance.

$AMD will invest $1 billion in $META's equity offering as the companies expand their AI infrastructure partnership, per Reuters. AMD's Helios racks will power Meta's frontier models and services. The chip supplier is helping fund its customer's AI buildout, with its $1 billion check equal to about 2.7% of Meta's $37.5 billion financing.

Wall Street firms have committed financing for a $63 billion deal to buy Broadcom AI chips and networking equipment and lease them to Anthropic. Deliveries are expected to begin in 2027. A separate company will purchase and own the equipment, with Anthropic paying to use it. Bank of America, Citi and Morgan Stanley are arranging the senior debt, which gets repaid first. Blackstone is providing the committed junior debt, which ranks behind it. Broadcom is also providing support tied to the equipment’s future resale value, covering an amount equivalent to the senior financing. That means Broadcom is helping protect the financing as well as supplying the hardware. The significance: this gives Anthropic a way to secure computing equipment without paying the entire purchase price upfront, and helps Broadcom finance customer purchases. The announcement does not disclose the lease payments or the detailed conditions of Broadcom’s support.

Nokia’s Q3 earnings are out. There is stronger evidence that AI networking demand is lifting sales and profits, but cash generation is lagging. All figures below are in euros. • Revenue €5.15B, up 10% reported and 9% at constant currency. Comparable operating profit rose 35% to €605M, with margin improving to 11.7% from 9.5%. Comparable diluted EPS was €0.09 versus €0.06. • AI/cloud customer sales grew 123%, with €1.5B in new orders. IP Networks grew 43% and Optical Networks 18%, both at constant currency. Earlier customer wins are now producing revenue. • The biggest forward signal: Management expects combined Optical and IP sales growth of 25–30% in 2027. That gives the AI networking opportunity more substance beyond this quarter. • 2026 operating-profit guidance remains €2.1–2.6B, with management now expecting to finish above the midpoint. • Cash outlook weakened. Expected free-cash-flow conversion fell to 35–55% of comparable operating profit, reflecting an additional €400M of working capital to secure supply, plus accelerated restructuring. My analysis: The strongest development is that Nokia’s AI exposure is showing up in shipments and operating profit. Optical and IP networking are the clearest near-term earnings drivers. But the growth has costs: Network Infrastructure’s gross margin fell to 41.2% from 42.7%, and reported operating profit fell 22%, reflecting restructuring and integration charges. Mobile Infrastructure also benefited partly from deliveries brought forward from Q4. I’m constructive on the business momentum. The next proof is whether Nokia can deliver its 2027 growth outlook while improving margins and turning the inventory investment back into cash.

JUST IN: The US and Canada are discussing relief from tariffs of up to 50% on Canadian steel and 25% on autos, per Reuters. Automakers could benefit on two fronts: cheaper steel inputs and lower duties on finished vehicles. But a source cautioned that any deal could be narrow. The scope matters: relief on autos alone would leave the steel tariff of up to 50% in place.

Anthropic disclosed roughly 900% net revenue retention. Eligible customers spent about nine times what the same cohort spent a year earlier. So why worry about demand? Because Anthropic has to buy capacity before customers decide how much they’ll use. Its S-1 disclosed roughly 900% net revenue retention at September 2026. That measures spending growth from an existing customer cohort. It doesn’t mean those customers have committed to spend that much next year. Roughly 80% of first-half revenue was usage-based. Anthropic, meanwhile, has signed long-term compute agreements with minimum spending obligations. Here’s how that can go wrong: imagine a company reserves enough computing capacity for customer spending to triple. Spending only doubles. Revenue still looks fantastic, but some of the capacity it committed to may sit unused, while minimum bills remain payable. Growth can stay strong and still fall short of the spending plan. If demand fills the capacity at attractive prices, securing it early pays off. If it doesn’t, lower utilization can squeeze margins and increase financing needs. For IPO investors, I’d watch how quickly new capacity turns into paying usage, and how much cash that usage generates after compute costs.

🚨 Wow...Anthropic just filed for its IPO. Revenue: +1,300% Net loss: $80.7 BILLION Operating cash flow: positive The S-1 is wild. Here are 6 things every investor needs to know. 1. Revenue +1,300% • H1 2026: $16.29B, vs $1.16B a year earlier. Full-year 2025 was $4.59B. 2. The $80.7B loss is mostly accounting • $72.4B of it is fair-value charges on financing instruments. Operating loss was just $693M, and operating cash flow was +$3.93B, though working-capital timing helped. That’s not proof of durable profitability. 3. Compute bills are the biggest risk • $265.6B in future minimum purchase commitments • $321.4B in leases not yet started, some of them conditional • ~$245B in new obligations signed since June These overlap in scope, so don’t just add them up. 4. Customers are spending like crazy Net revenue retention was ~900% in September: the same customers spent 9x what they did a year ago. That excludes Pro/Max subscribers. Usage can fall, though. 5. Amazon and Google are everything at once Amazon and Google are everything at once Cloud marketplaces drove 48% of H1 revenue. $AMZN and $GOOGL are Anthropic’s distributors, suppliers, financiers and competitors, all at the same time. 6. Control stays with the founders The founders’ special share carries 50.1% of general voting power, and the Long-Term Benefit Trust elects most of the board. Public-benefit share contributions and future issuance could dilute per-share economics. Two details most people will miss: • Gross margin is ~85%, but H1 R&D ran $9.74B and S&M ran $3.81B. Frontier models are expensive to keep up. • 5-7% of nine-month revenue came from customers later found violating Anthropic’s policies or terms. Some of that revenue may disappear. Still unknown: the price range, the share count, and how much existing shareholders are selling. So no read on valuation yet.

JUST IN: $SPCX entered a $40 billion AI chip financing deal with Apollo. SpaceX entered a binding commitment for a master finance lease, according to Reuters. A subsequent report identified Nvidia Vera Rubin chips for SpaceX's terrestrial compute buildout. The financing gives SpaceX a route to fund computing capacity through a lease. That puts the economics of the hardware alongside the economics of the AI business. Revenue from the compute needs to cover financing costs as well as operating expenses, and newer chips can pressure the value of equipment already financed. A $40 billion commitment does not establish delivery, utilization or profitable demand. Lease terms and deployment timing will determine how much risk each party carries. The test is whether SpaceX can earn enough from the compute to cover the lease before a newer chip generation potentially resets its economics.