Nvidia just did something no chipmaker has ever done at this scale: it lined up over $500 billion in outside financing to build AI infrastructure, without spending a dollar of its own balance sheet. Apollo, Blackstone, BlackRock, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR are all in on the deal, which turns Nvidia's compute into something Wall Street can invest in directly, buying a stake in AI's future growth instead of just betting on Nvidia's stock. CEO Jensen Huang says he approached exactly six firms for the commitment, and none of them turned him down.

On the same day, Anthropic quietly locked up another huge chunk of compute. Bloomberg reports Anthropic struck a $9.1 billion, 20-year deal with Riot Platforms, a Bitcoin mining company pivoting into AI data centers, for 191 megawatts of capacity in Texas, its second major deal with a former crypto miner this year after a $19 billion agreement with TeraWulf in July. And in a ruling that touches nearly every major consumer AI and social platform, a federal appeals court let more than 3,000 lawsuits against Meta, Google, TikTok, and Snap proceed, rejecting their argument that Section 230 shields them from addiction-design claims.

• Nvidia lined up $500 billion in outside financing to fund AI infrastructure worldwide.

• Anthropic struck a $9.1 billion deal with a former Bitcoin miner for Texas data center capacity.

• Meta, Google, TikTok, and Snap must face 3,000+ addiction lawsuits after losing their Section 230 defense.

• OpenAI completed a $7 billion employee share buyback at an $852 billion valuation.

• Bernie Sanders is demanding OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta pause AI development entirely.

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Nvidia announced strategic partnerships with six of the biggest names in finance, Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR, to mobilize more than $500 billion in third-party capital for AI infrastructure: chips, power generation, and data centers. Rather than Nvidia or its customers footing the bill directly, the financing will be structured through private offerings and bonds, using compute capacity itself as collateral. Jensen Huang said he approached only these six firms, and all six said yes.

Anthropic struck a $9.1 billion, 20-year deal with Riot Platforms for 191 megawatts of data center capacity at Riot's Rockdale, Texas campus, according to Bloomberg. Riot, a Bitcoin miner increasingly pivoting into AI hosting, will bring the first 96 megawatts online by December 2027 and complete the full build by mid-2028; two five-year extension options could push the deal's total value to $16.1 billion. Riot's stock jumped roughly 25% in after-hours trading once the deal became public. This is Anthropic's second major agreement with a former crypto miner this year, after a $19 billion deal with TeraWulf in July.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Meta, Google, TikTok, and Snap cannot use Section 230 to immediately dismiss more than 3,000 consolidated lawsuits alleging they designed their platforms to be addictive to young users. Judge Jacqueline Nguyen wrote that Section 230 "provides a defense to liability, not immunity from lawsuits," rejecting the companies' argument that they could appeal before the underlying case even concluded. The same day, the court also denied Meta's request to delay a separate trial, set to begin this week, brought by 29 state attorneys general over how the company collects and uses children's data.

OpenAI completed a $7 billion tender offer, buying back employee shares with its own cash instead of outside investors, holding its valuation flat at $852 billion. The company confidentially filed for an IPO in June, and Altman has told staff he expects to go public within a year.

Sanders sent letters to Altman, Amodei, and Zuckerberg demanding they pause AI development, warning "if you do not take appropriate action now, my colleagues and I in the U.S. Senate will." He cited AI systems at all three companies exceeding their own safety limits, plus new research using AI to design 16 functioning viruses (harmless ones, built with explicit safeguards against anything that could threaten humans).

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Corma Raises $60M Seed to Build AI That Fights Back Against AI Attackers

Corma, a Tel Aviv and San Francisco startup, raised a $60 million seed round led by Sequoia Capital, with Khosla Ventures and Coatue also participating, to build what it calls the first foundation model purpose-built for defensive cybersecurity. In its own testing, the same AI models that carried out simulated attacks succeeded 88% of the time, while AI defenders caught only 12% of them, the exact imbalance Corma says it's built to close. Early deployments at Fortune 100 and 500 companies reportedly cut threat-response times by more than 94%.

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