Broadcom is in talks with Blackstone and Apollo for a debt package of up to $100 billion to fund AI chip infrastructure for Anthropic, nearly tripling June's $35 billion deal in about ten weeks. Here is what the tranche structure means for anyone renting AI compute.
Nvidia is paying Poolside $6 billion to license its AI coding technology and $1 billion for equity, while 109 Poolside staff get Nvidia job offers. Here is the new template chipmakers use to buy AI capability without a takeover.
Nebius is raising $4.5 billion in convertible notes on top of a $4.3 billion March raise, taking convertible debt to near $8.8 billion in under five months.
UK/European private equity firm Oakley Capital acquired a majority stake in Graphwise on August 19, 2026, the Bulgarian-Austrian knowledge-graph platform serving 200+ enterprise customers.
UK chip startup Fractile is in talks to raise $600 million at a $6.5 billion valuation, a 6x jump built on one unshipped Anthropic chip contract.
L-Bank, a German state development bank, joined Flip's $25 million round - a rare bet on AI equity that EU and UK owners should watch.
Stripe and OpenRouter have officially confirmed the acquisition, valued at over 7 billion dollars per earlier reporting, more than five times OpenRouter's valuation 82 days earlier. The company built to keep buyers from depending on one AI vendor now has a single, commercially interested owner.
Google's $12.2 billion Marvell warrant vests only as Marvell hits chip-delivery milestones through 2033 - a retention play, not a vote of confidence.
Gravis Robotics raised $200 million from SoftBank and days later became the contractor on a UK taxpayer-funded autonomous excavator pilot under CAM Pathfinder.
CFO Sarah Friar told OpenAI staff the IPO lands in 2027, not Altman's 2026 target, and cut his $1.4 trillion compute figure to $600 billion in the same meeting.
Google handed Marvell a $12.2 billion stock warrant tied to future AI chip orders, and Broadcom's stock fell 5 percent the same day. Here is what the vesting terms actually promise.
Medly AI's $8m seed, led by Felix Capital, arrived two months after the London startup won 1 of 8 slots from 53 bids in a UK government AI-tutoring pilot - a signal investors priced in.
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