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CoreWeave plans $3 billion convertible-note offering alongside equity distribution program
CoreWeave disclosed a planned $3 billion convertible-note offering due 2033, an option for up to $500 million more, and a separate program that could place up to 35 million Class A shares. None of the potential financing should be treated as completed at the time of the disclosure.
Open briefNVIDIA Links Australian Data-Center Partners to Up to 2 GW of Planned AI Capacity
NVIDIA says it is working with Australian cloud and infrastructure partners on up to 2 gigawatts of AI-factory capacity by 2027, but the announcement does not establish how much is committed, financed or operational.
Open briefMeta introduces Muse, a personal AI agent for tasks and purchases
Meta says its new Muse agent can execute tasks, remember context, and interact with services while operating inside a dedicated secure virtual machine.
Open briefNVIDIA to Acquire Hugging Face
NVIDIA says it agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion. The official announcement leaves closing, financing and operating impact open.
Open briefBroadcom reports $29.6 billion in fiscal Q3 revenue as AI semiconductor sales accelerate
Broadcom reported record fiscal third-quarter revenue and cash generation, with AI semiconductor revenue becoming the clearest growth driver in the company’s latest results.
Open briefVertiv agrees to acquire UtilityInnovation Group for $1.45 billion
Vertiv agreed to acquire UtilityInnovation Group for approximately $1.45 billion, targeting faster access to power for AI data centers.
Open briefNVIDIA and CrowdStrike are turning cybersecurity into an agentic stack — the proof is still ahead
NVIDIA and CrowdStrike announced SafeMind, an agentic cybersecurity system combining CrowdStrike threat data and harnesses with NVIDIA Nemotron models. The companies describe a powerful architecture, but the public announcement does not establish customer adoption or realized economics.
Open briefAMD, Cisco and HUMAIN put MI355X AI infrastructure into production in Saudi Arabia
AMD, Cisco and HUMAIN said MI355X-based infrastructure is live and outlined a larger planned Saudi Arabian buildout.
Open briefNVIDIA invests $3.5 billion in MediaTek as the AI stack moves from chips to platforms
NVIDIA and MediaTek expanded their AI collaboration across custom accelerators, local computing and vehicles. NVIDIA also invested $3.5 billion in convertible bonds issued by MediaTek, but the announcement provides no forecast for revenue or returns.
Open briefAWS and NVIDIA to Deliver 2 Million Additional GPUs and Next-Generation Infrastructure for Agentic and Physical AI
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Open briefOur Agreement With Bipartisan Attorneys General: Calling on TikTok and YouTube to Join Us in Supporting Teens
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Open briefNVIDIA Announces Financial Results for Second Quarter Fiscal 2027
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Open briefNVIDIA puts Groq 3 LPX into production — but the commercial proof comes next
NVIDIA says its Groq 3 LPX inference accelerator is now in full production as an extension of Vera Rubin. Availability is clearer than customer economics.
Open briefSpaceXAI says it will deploy NVIDIA's Vera CPU for agentic AI
NVIDIA's August 24 announcement names SpaceXAI as a Vera CPU customer, but leaves deployment scale, timing and economics undisclosed.
Open briefMeta's AI buildout now runs across three different spending clocks
Meta disclosed a 2026 capex plan, future leases and non-cancelable commitments that measure different parts of its infrastructure expansion — and should not be added into one mega-total.
Open briefMeta says AI is improving ads. Its filings still do not isolate the return.
Meta reported strong advertising growth and management-described conversion gains, but investors still cannot trace a clean line from AI capex to incremental profit and cash.
Open briefMarvell posts record fiscal Q2 revenue and expands its Google custom-chip partnership
Marvell reported $2.739 billion of fiscal Q2 revenue and disclosed a Google custom-chip agreement paired with a warrant for up to 58.97 million shares.
Open briefMarvell ties Google custom-silicon partnership to warrant for up to 58.97 million shares
Marvell disclosed a commercial agreement with Google covering custom silicon connected to Google’s TPU ecosystem and issued Google a warrant for up to 58,970,907 Marvell shares at $206.58 per share. Most of the warrant vests only as qualifying Custom Products revenue and purchases occur, so the filing signals a strategic customer relationship without establishing immediate revenue or full dilution.
Open briefThe SEC proposes a tailored offering regime for some crypto investment contracts
The proposal would add two registration exemptions and a conditional safe harbor. It is not a final rule.
Open briefAMD closes $4.75 billion senior-note offering across 2029–2036 maturities
AMD completed a four-part senior-debt offering totaling $4.75 billion, with maturities spread from 2029 through 2036.
Open briefNVIDIA's $105 billion ceiling is a conditional guarantee, not day-one spending
A filed 8-K reveals the contingent structure behind NVIDIA's Ohio AI-campus partnership with SB Energy and OpenAI.
Open briefNVIDIA takes contingent exposure on a 4.25-gigawatt AI campus
NVIDIA disclosed a multi-year SB Energy partnership to develop the Portsmouth Site in Ohio, where an OpenAI affiliate is expected to be the tenant.
Open briefSpaceX closes the Cursor acquisition in a $60 billion stock transaction
SpaceX's August 14, 2026 Form 8-K confirms that Anysphere's Cursor became a wholly owned subsidiary in a stock-based merger.
Open briefReddit Sets Chief Legal Officer Transition for September
Reddit's August 12, 2026 Form 8-K says Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary Benjamin Lee intends to step down and names an expected successor.
Open briefReddit joins the S&P 500 as scale and monetization converge
Reddit announced its addition to the S&P 500 effective August 18, 2026, a market-structure event distinct from its operating results and executive transition.
Open briefAlphabet closes a $25 billion senior-note offering
Alphabet closed an underwritten public offering of U.S.-dollar senior notes spanning maturities from 2028 through 2066.
Open briefAST SpaceMobile's Q2 filing shows revenue scaling alongside launch and production risk
AST SpaceMobile's August 2026 SEC filings report higher product and service revenue, substantial liquidity and a satellite production ramp, while also recording a material loss after the BB7 launch anomaly.
Open briefRocket Lab is pursuing Iridium to expand into space applications
Rocket Lab’s proposed Iridium acquisition would combine its launch and satellite capabilities with Iridium’s communications network.
Open briefRocket Lab revenue reached $234.1 million in the second quarter
Rocket Lab reported second-quarter 2026 revenue growth while remaining loss-making at the operating level.
Open briefAMD agrees to acquire Taalas for specialized AI inference technology
AMD announced a definitive agreement to acquire Taalas, whose specialized silicon targets inference bottlenecks.
Open briefReddit crosses 130 million daily users as Q2 revenue reaches $805 million
Reddit’s second-quarter results show continued user growth, advertising expansion and a sharp increase in cash generation, while the next test is whether that pace holds as the platform scales.
Open briefMarvell plans 50 million India investment over three years
Marvell announced plans to invest 50 million in India over the next three years and expand its Bangalore facility.
Open briefVertiv raises its 2026 outlook as data-center infrastructure demand lifts Q2
Vertiv’s second-quarter results add a financial receipt to the AI infrastructure buildout, with higher sales, margins and guidance, while execution and conversion of demand remain the central test.
Open briefRocket Lab wins a $266 million Space Force launch contract
Rocket Lab announced its largest launch contract to date, a $266 million multi-launch award from the U.S. Space Force for suborbital missions.
Open briefBroadcom and Samsung outline a five-year HBM and advanced-packaging collaboration
Broadcom and Samsung signed an MOU covering memory, foundry and advanced packaging for next-generation AI infrastructure, creating a supply-chain relationship to watch rather than a disclosed order book.
Open briefAMD lays out a full-stack AI infrastructure push at Advancing AI 2026
AMD introduced Helios rack-scale systems alongside new CPUs, GPUs, networking and physical-AI products.
Open briefAMD and Cerebras pair Helios with wafer-scale inference
The companies announced a disaggregated inference architecture combining AMD Helios throughput with Cerebras low-latency token generation.
Open briefAMD and Anthropic plan up to 2 gigawatts of MI450 deployments
AMD and Anthropic announced a multi-year partnership spanning AI infrastructure, software development and a proposed AMD investment.
Open briefMicrosoft expands Azure deployments of AMD compute and networking
Microsoft and AMD announced expanded Azure deployments spanning Helios, EPYC processors, Pensando DPUs and Azure Boost.
Open briefAST SpaceMobile launches a 12 million-share public offering
AST SpaceMobile announced an underwritten offering of 12 million Class A shares, with a possible 1.8 million-share overallotment.
Open briefSpaceX prices a $25 billion inaugural bond offering
SpaceX priced a $25 billion inaugural bond offering across five maturities, creating a financing event distinct from its Cursor acquisition.
Open briefMarvell appoints Dan Durn as CFO
Marvell announced Dan Durn as CFO effective June 15, 2026, with Willem Meintjes available through April 2027 in an advisory capacity.
Open briefBroadcom, Apollo and Blackstone put financing behind a 20-gigawatt AI infrastructure plan
Broadcom announced an AI infrastructure platform with Apollo and Blackstone, linking custom accelerators and networking equipment to a large financing framework rather than to booked Broadcom revenue.
Open briefBroadcom Q2 AI semiconductor revenue reaches $10.8 billion
Broadcom’s fiscal second-quarter results provide the missing mid-year financial checkpoint between its Q1 and Q3 reports, with AI semiconductor revenue and cash generation both accelerating.
Open briefMarvell introduces a 102.4 Tbps switch for AI data centers
Marvell introduced the Teralynx T100, a high-radix Ethernet switch designed for AI clusters, adding a product-level test to the company’s custom-silicon and Google partnership story.
Open briefMarvell reports record fiscal Q1 revenue and raises its AI infrastructure outlook
Marvell reported record first-quarter fiscal 2027 revenue and guided to higher second-quarter revenue amid stated AI-related demand.
Open briefMeta raises its 2026 capex range as AI investment expands
Meta’s first-quarter results showed continued operating momentum but also a higher 2026 capital-expenditure range, making the AI buildout a measurable financial commitment rather than only a product narrative.
Open briefAST SpaceMobile launches BlueBird 7 into a difficult execution test
AST SpaceMobile launched its second next-generation BlueBird satellite on April 19, 2026, creating a distinct operational checkpoint before the company’s later quarterly production update.
Open briefGoogle completes its acquisition of Wiz
Google completed its acquisition of cloud-security company Wiz, adding a major security capability to Google Cloud while keeping the service available across multiple clouds.
Open briefAMD and Meta align on up to 6 gigawatts of Instinct AI infrastructure
AMD and Meta announced a multi-year agreement for up to 6 gigawatts of AMD Instinct GPUs, linking a large deployment plan to a custom MI450-based platform and milestone-based economics.
Open briefNVIDIA launches the Rubin platform for the next AI infrastructure cycle
NVIDIA launched its Rubin platform at CES, introducing a six-chip system architecture and a new Vera CPU before the company’s later fiscal-year results.
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