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Updates on AI Investment

Every AI story we track on AI Investment — 69 stories so far, each summarized in our own words and linked back to the publisher that reported it.

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This week

AI spend per employee slumped at top firms in August — summer doldrums or a warning sign?

TechCrunch

This month

Chips & Compute5 min read

OpenAI's entanglements with a data center company go on display in a new filing

Business Insider

Ukraine's ousted pro-tech defense minister is launching a new company backed by Palantir's Alex Karp

Business Insider

Meta projected spending up to $10bn a year on Anthropic’s AI models

The Next Web
AI Research4 min read

CEO Jensen Huang went on an AI deal spree in August. Nvidia plans to invest $18 billion more this fiscal year.

Business Insider

Anthropic’s best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive

Simon Willison's Weblog

Nvidia is in talks to back Perplexity at more than $30bn

The Next Web
Finance3 min read

Anthropic is targeting an IPO the size of the largest ever

The Next Web

Anthropic’s revenue passed OpenAI’s for the first time last quarter

The Next Web

Anthropic’s revenue run rate tops $65bn, a source says, but a run rate is not revenue

The Next Web
Chips & Compute3 min read

Semiconductor Giants Are Busy Backing Startups This Year

Crunchbase

Alibaba sells its Lingxi games arm to fund an all-in bet on AI

The Next Web
Finance40 min read

Don't Look Up

Where's Your Ed At
Finance3 min read

AI Investors Are Suddenly Quaking in Their Boots

Futurism
AI Research1 min read

Intel plans $15B stock offering to fund AI expansion

Anadolu Agency English
AI Research3 min read

A DeepMind exec finally said what the trillion-dollar AI spend is for: machines that improve themselves.

The Next Web

Jon Gray says impatience about AI returns is 'a little misplaced'

Business Insider

The AI trade now runs on borrowed money, and the lenders are repricing it

Hacker News

Amazon and Apple just told us more about their AI plans - here are three things we learned

BBC

Meta Struggles With Limited Returns on Its AI Spending, Social Media Legal Woes

Gizmodo
Finance3 min read

Traders price an outsized Microsoft move as AI capex scrutiny mounts

The Next Web

AI boom drives an 80% surge in foreign investment bids for Thailand

The Next Web

Google Free Cash Flow Turns Negative Due to Massive AI Spend

Gizmodo

Masayoshi Son says AI will cost $5tn a year by 2040, and calls bubble talk absurd

The Next Web
AI Research3 min read

Zuckerberg Admits That AI Is Not Working Out the Way He Imagined

Futurism

South Korea plans a ‘future response fund’ built on its AI chip tax windfall

The Next Web
Agents2 min read

Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven’t progressed as quickly as he’d hoped

Covered by 2 sources
Finance4 min read

AI’s hopes and fears take over the world’s big central-bank gathering

Covered by 2 sources

OCBC to lift annual tech spending above $771mn as new CEO doubles down on AI

The Next Web

Visa says AI investment and digital commerce are carrying the global economy

The Next Web

South Korea bets $880bn to win the AI era

The Next Web

DeepSeek’s $7.4bn raise is one symptom of China’s AI cash surge

The Next Web

The BIS warns an AI bust could hit credit markets as hard as the 2008 financial crisis

The Next Web

General Atlantic wants to back China’s Kling AI at $18bn. Beijing is telling its AI firms to refuse US money.

The Next Web

OpenAI burned $3.7bn in the first quarter, The Information reports

The Next Web

Monday.com launches Monday Ventures, a $200m fund for workplace-AI startups

The Next Web

Fresh off bond sale, Amazon borrows $17.5 billion from banks as AI spending continues

Covered by 2 sources

China just told its tech giants to stop fighting on price and start investing in AI

The Next Web

AI Investment Is ‘Harder to Justify’ as Productivity Returns Lag, Uber COO Says

Gizmodo

If Australia is home to an AI gold rush, let’s not squander it. Let’s fjord a different path | Peter Lewis

The Guardian

xAI burned $6.4B last year. SpaceX’s IPO filing shows why the spending is far from over

TechCrunch

The UK spent £900 million on Palantir. Now it is spending £175 million on a British AI company to fix the tax gap.

The Next Web

Cisco cuts nearly 4,000 jobs to spend more on AI, reports ‘record quarterly revenue’

TechCrunch

Riding an AI rally, Robinhood preps second retail venture IPO

TechCrunch

Amazon prepares its first Swiss franc bond in six-part AI-capex push

The Next Web

NVIDIA tops $40bn in AI equity bets in 2026, anchored by $30bn OpenAI investment

The Next Web

The AI rally looks like the dot-com bubble. The companies do not.

The Next Web

Meta is firing 8,000 people. Microsoft is paying 8,750 to leave. Both are spending the savings on AI.

The Next Web

Google is investing up to $40 billion in a company that is beating Gemini. That is the point.

The Next Web

Microsoft offers voluntary retirement to 7% of US workers in first-ever buyout programme amid $80B AI spending push

The Next Web

Stanford’s AI Index finds China has nearly closed the performance gap with the US despite spending 23 times less

The Next Web

The AI gold rush is pulling private wealth into riskier, earlier bets 

TechCrunch

Tech companies are cutting jobs and betting on AI. The payoff is far from guaranteed

The Guardian
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