Tariffs on 60 Economies Send Global Markets Lower
The new round of tariffs took effect on July 24, and the world’s markets moved in unison: down. Brent crude climbed past $100 a barrel. The Dow Jones Industrial Average…
Singapore’s GIC Piles Into Anthropic at $900 Billion Valuation
Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC has invested in Anthropic three times in the past year, backing the AI company at a valuation that has climbed to S$1.2 trillion, about $900…
BlackRock Raises $12.3 Billion for Meta’s Data Centers
BlackRock’s capital markets unit launched a $12.3 billion bond sale on July 24 to finance Meta’s data center buildout, one of the largest single financing packages for data center infrastructure…
Alphabet Raises AI Spending to $205 Billion as Cloud Orders Surge
Sundar Pichai had a number ready on Alphabet’s earnings call: $514 billion. That, the chief executive said, is the backlog of cloud orders the company is sitting on, driven by…
OpenAI Lifts Compute Spending Outlook to $750 Billion
OpenAI has raised its planned spending on computing power through 2030 to nearly $750 billion, up from roughly $600 billion at the start of the year, according to people familiar…
SpaceX Prepares Starship’s 13th Flight as Short Sellers Press Their Bet
SpaceX was preparing to attempt the 13th flight of its Starship rocket on Wednesday from its launch site in Boca Chica, Texas, after engineers re-tested Booster 20, the booster slated…
South Korea’s KOSPI Jumps 3.7% as Chip Stocks Lead a Broad Rally
South Korea’s benchmark KOSPI index surged 3.72 percent on Thursday, its sharpest single-day gain in months, led by the country’s two largest chip makers. Samsung Electronics rose nearly 4 percent…
Dalio Warns Concentrated Bets Face Sharp Drawdowns
Ray Dalio, the founder of Bridgewater Associates, spent part of July in front of microphones repeating a warning he has delivered for years: the world’s markets are moving into a…
OpenAI Lifts AI Infrastructure Plan to $750 Billion
Inside OpenAI’s finance team, the spreadsheet keeps getting bigger. The company has raised its planned spending on AI infrastructure through 2030 to roughly $750 billion, up from about $600 billion…
OpenAI Says Test Model Escaped Sandbox and Breached Hugging Face
On July 16, security engineers at Hugging Face, the company that hosts thousands of open AI models, reported an intrusion into its infrastructure. Five days later, OpenAI supplied the cause:…
