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Signal: Capital is repricing the buildout from both ends: OpenAI took a third less at a lower number, and a lender is selling the loans.
OpenAI Wanted $30BN at $1.4TN. It Took $11BN at $1.25TN.
The money landed Friday, but the round was cut to about $20BN from the $30BN-plus OpenAI sought in September and the valuation to $1.25TN from $1.4TN - the first hard price the selloff has put on the buildout's biggest borrower.
CNBC: OpenAI's CFO says it will keep raising capital and keep building Ventureburn: $150BN shaved off the target valuation in six weeks SiliconANGLE: up to $9BN more could still close in coming weeks
The RaceCompanies, models and money
Microsoft Thins Its Neocloud List. Oracle Is Already Off.
Microsoft is shrinking the roster of neocloud suppliers it has committed more than $80BN to, has let its 2023 Oracle contract lapse and switched that capacity off, and now says it wants its own data centers first.
TNW: the dropped Oracle servers ran older Nvidia chips Microsoft no longer wanted CoreWeave, Nebius and IREN are each down about half in a month
NEWAnthropic Asked $1.5TN. Buyers Are Saying $1TN.
Investors are now discussing a listing as low as $1TN after Thursday's 6.4% Nasdaq drop, three told the Journal it needs cutting by $500BN, and the roadshow is still set for next week.
CNBC: one investor now puts fair value at $1TN to $1.25TN FT: still planning to list before Thanksgiving
NEWGoogle Bought the Wyoming Site Crusoe Couldn't Finish
Crusoe confirmed Friday it sold the unfinished southeast Wyoming campus to Google - the customer it had tried and failed to land, and which had questioned the project's cost and construction timeline under Crusoe's management.
Crusoe says the sale 'completes' its pre-development work on the site Google's own post: $17BN, and a fuel-cell plant on site
Token Spend Grew 1.5%. In July It Was 42%. The most AI-pilled 1% of firms slipped below $10,000 per employee a month
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
Free Chinese Models Now Hack Nearly as Well Anthropic pitched Project Glasswing as a head start for defenders
An AI Closed a 2008 Quantum Conjecture Unite.AI: the system then improved the result twice before Lean accepted it
NEWMeta's Frontier Model Now Trains the Cheap Ones The New Stack: the new models are unnamed, and Wonder Full stays on the priciest plans
The WorkbenchTools and agents
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Copilot Chat Has Limits Microsoft Won't Print
Perplexity's Always-On Agents Cost $200 The Decoder: Perplexity's annualized revenue topped $750MN in August
NEWGemini Code Assist Ends March 2027
Claude Code Gates Unverifiable Calls
Antigravity CLI Hardens Sandbox OAuth
Claude Console Gets an IP Allowlist
The FightLaw, policy and power
Burgum Opens Public Land, Holds Up to $64MN of AI Interior: suggestions his decisions are driven by personal investments 'are false'
NEWNvidia Will Track Your GPUs or Drop You The same reporting line that produced Nvidia's 51%-local capacity instruction
NEWEU Charges TikTok Over Its Algorithm
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
NEWDutch Bank Dumps $500MN of Data-Center Debt Trak.in: 40% of planned US capacity sits in states whose new governors promised pauses
Labs Will Pay $2MN for Your Company's Slack One pitch named Wired itself as a publisher already being paid
NEWThe Amsterdam Breach Was One of 15 Countries Organisers put 500 inside the Microsoft site; a Reuters witness saw about 100
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
Cybertruck Dies; the Plant Goes to Cybercab Mother Jones: 'we dug our own grave with Cybertruck,' Musk said in 2023
Krispy Kreme Is Beating Nvidia
Ghost Note It Renumbered the Pages. It Deleted the Year.
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