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Google's TPUs are coming to Oracle's cloud from 2027, the first hyperscaler outside Google to offer them, per a joint release.
Oracle also announced Cerebras inference for OCI. In under a minute:
$GOOGL @Google @Oracle #Semiconductors #AIInfrastructure
"Genie 4 is our first real-time world model to generate audio natively." - Google DeepMind
Worlds now carry ambient sound and dialogue, and Gemini 3.8 Flash plans and checks each step as the scene renders. Research preview for trusted testers.
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“Our co-founders have each pledged to dedicate 80% of their personal equity in Anthropic to philanthropic causes” - Anthropic's S-1
It also puts 846.8M shares, 5% of the fully diluted count, in a fund Anthropic owns: 3.5x the biggest co-founder stake (our math).
#AI
Three companies. Three IPO filings. $3.5 trillion in combined target valuation.
The AI economy's first real test.
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OpenAI: $852B. Targeting Q4 2026.
Advantage: ChatGPT's consumer scale, frontier model leadership.
Risk: nonprofit restructuring, Microsoft building competing models, $6.6B in employee stock already traded on secondary.
The real question: can public markets tell the difference between usage growth and durable profits?
AI inference costs money per token. Every API call, every agent action = GPU time. Unlike software, marginal cost doesn't approach zero.
Full analysis:
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Neocloud Argentum AI is in talks for $5B of private credit for AI chips, Reuters reports, citing two people familiar.
The debt is meant for chips leased to customers without investment-grade ratings, the same week SpaceX secured $40B.
#Semiconductors #PrivateCredit
American Tower's CoreSite data centres grew revenue 17.4% to $313M in Q3, while its US & Canada tower segment fell 3.3%, the company said today.
It raised its 2026 property revenue outlook by $55M at the midpoint, citing Data Centers outperformance.
AMD says it will invest $1B in Meta's stock offering, a day after Nvidia named $3B.
Its Helios racks are installed and being tested at Meta. Two chip suppliers have now named $4B of the up to $5B they indicated.
#Semiconductors #AI
Corning's Optical Communications sales rose 44% to $2.38B in Q3, and its Gen AI sales doubled, the company said today.
CEO Wendell Weeks says that is "outpacing GPU unit growth." The rest of Corning grew more slowly or shrank.
#Semiconductors #AI
Hubbell's Electrical Solutions sales: $559M to $845M in Q3 (+22% organic).
CEO Gerben Bakker says the growth was "led by strong datacenter markets". Hubbell raised its 2026 outlook, mainly on that segment.
#VentureCapital #AIInfrastructure
General Compute: $60M valuation in May, $800M now, per TechCrunch.
The inference-chip neocloud raised a $100M Series A off a $100M-ARR customer deal, in the week Musk predicted 200+ neoclouds face "guppy-level death."
#VentureCapital #AIInfrastructure
UPS: ~$1.8B of program benefits in nine months from automation, sort consolidation and a smaller workforce.
It raised its 2026 revenue outlook to ~$92.6B. CEO Carol Tomé: "the most automated and efficient network in our history."
#VentureCapital #AI
