CoreWeave’s borrowing costs just fell from 10% to 7%. The AI data centre debt market is repricing risk in real time.
CoreWeave’s borrowing costs just fell from 10% to 7%. The AI data centre debt market is repricing risk in real time.

An Applied Digital subsidiary raised $1.59 billion in the high-yield bond market on Tuesday to fund a fourth building at its Polaris Forge 1 campus in North Dakota, which will provide 150 megawatts of computing capacity for CoreWeave under a 15-year co…

Oracle spent $55.7 billion on data centres in a single year, beat its own guidance by $5.7 billion, and wants to raise another $40 billion
Oracle spent $55.7 billion on data centres in a single year, beat its own guidance by $5.7 billion, and wants to raise another $40 billion

Oracle reported fiscal fourth-quarter revenue of $19.2 billion, up 21% year on year, and adjusted earnings of $2.11 per share, beating analyst estimates of $19.1 billion and $1.97 respectively. The numbers were overshadowed by capital expenditure that …

Your ChatGPT bills could soon get a drastic price cut

OpenAI is weighing drastic price cuts as it battles Anthropic for customers. With businesses balking at AI costs and Google undercutting both, your AI bills might finally get smaller.

If you’re using AI tools like ChatGPT to fact-check news, there’s some bad news for you

MIT researchers warn that relying heavily on AI chatbots like ChatGPT for fact-checking news may weaken users’ ability to independently spot misinformation.

Palantir’s Karp says Sanders will regret only asking for 50% of AI companies. Full nationalization is coming.
Palantir’s Karp says Sanders will regret only asking for 50% of AI companies. Full nationalization is coming.

Palantir CEO Alex Karp says full nationalization of AI companies is coming, and that Senator Bernie Sanders’ proposal for 50% public ownership will soon look moderate. “In two years, they’re not going to think Bernie Sanders is progressive,” Karp told …

Anthropic wants governments to have the power to block dangerous AI deployments
Anthropic wants governments to have the power to block dangerous AI deployments

Anthropic has published two policy frameworks calling for governments to have the legal authority to block dangerous AI deployments and for economic safeguards to protect workers as AI reshapes the labour market. The Advanced AI Framework covers safety…

Microsoft’s president responds to the AI backlash with a 3,000-word essay and zero policy changes
Microsoft’s president responds to the AI backlash with a 3,000-word essay and zero policy changes

Microsoft President Brad Smith has responded to the wave of graduating students booing AI at commencement ceremonies with a 3,000-word essay that acknowledges their concerns and offers no concrete changes. Published on Microsoft’s official blog on Tues…

White House offers to trade state AI preemption for federal online safety laws in new deal with Congress
White House offers to trade state AI preemption for federal online safety laws in new deal with Congress

The White House is negotiating with key senators to bundle federal preemption of state AI laws with three online safety bills, Axios reported. Senator Marsha Blackburn is leading the effort to finalise legislative text. The package would block state AI…

OpenAI says China-linked accounts used ChatGPT to fuel opposition to US data centres
OpenAI says China-linked accounts used ChatGPT to fuel opposition to US data centres

OpenAI said a cluster of ChatGPT accounts linked to China attempted to stir up local opposition to US data centres by posing as Americans and posting AI-generated content about rising electricity costs. The company nicknamed the campaign “Data Center B…

Amazon takes on $17.5 billion in new debt as AI spending pushes total borrowing past $225 billion
Amazon takes on $17.5 billion in new debt as AI spending pushes total borrowing past $225 billion

Amazon has agreed to a $17.5 billion delayed-draw term loan led by Citigroup, the latest in a borrowing spree fuelled by its race to build AI infrastructure. The cash is available through the end of September. Each draw has a three-year repayment windo…