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Google borrows Nvidia-style financing to push TPUs, including a $3.2bn data-center guarantee
Google is adopting financing tactics associated with Nvidia, including a $3.2bn data-center guarantee and so-called circular financing, to win customers for its own TPU chips. It is also leaning on broader funding plans, including an $85bn equity raise largely for AI infrastructure, to support expanding TPU supply beyond Google. The move is sharpening questions about whether Nvidia can sustain its north-of-90% share of the AI chip market and the durability of its CUDA advantage. Google says customers such as Citadel Securities have validated TPU cost and performance, while a planned cloud venture with Blackstone targets Nvidia-backed providers such as CoreWeave.
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General Atlantic weighs leading Kling AI’s more than $2bn funding round at an $18bn valuation
General Atlantic is in talks to lead the first external fundraising round for Kling AI, the video unit of Chinese tech group Kuaishou, according to Bloomberg. Kling is seeking more than $2bn at a valuation of $18bn ahead of a planned stock market listing, after paring back an earlier $20bn target. The discussions are at an early stage with no assurance a deal will be reached, and both General Atlantic and Kuaishou declined to comment.
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6-19
Higgsfield rolls out Supercomputer 2.0 enterprise marketing agents integrated with NVIDIA stack
Higgsfield has launched Supercomputer 2.0, an enterprise AI marketing agent that deeply integrates NVIDIA’s Agent Toolkit and Nemotron models, and runs its proprietary Soul model on Blackwell. The company says its platform is used by 390 Fortune 500 companies and that revenue in the first five months of 2026 nearly quadrupled. The release reinforces NVIDIA’s early lead and commercial validation in agent infrastructure, but no specific orders or revenue-sharing terms were disclosed.
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6-19
SpaceX slides 6.5% after record IPO rally cools
SpaceX shares fell 6.5% to $178.50 in a single session, though they still traded more than 30% above the $135 offering price. The decline erased more than $150bn in market value on the day. As the post-IPO surge cooled, investors shifted from debut-day enthusiasm to closer scrutiny of whether the valuation can hold, focusing on Starlink’s profit durability, Starship’s development risks and Elon Musk’s highly concentrated control structure. The stock’s earlier rally had briefly pushed SpaceX’s market capitalisation above Amazon and, for a moment, Microsoft before the reassessment set in.
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6-18
Meta’s Applied AI unit faces internal revolt as 6,500-engineer reorg forces data-labeling work
Meta’s Applied AI organization has been hit by an internal backlash after engineers were reassigned to data-labeling and other low-autonomy tasks, triggering protests and disputes over workplace monitoring and “tokenmaxxing.” The turmoil followed a 30 May Instagram security incident involving takeovers of high-profile accounts and was compounded by the departure of Meta’s chief information security officer. Even senior leaders have publicly criticized the reorganization, as Meta reports $56.3bn in first-quarter revenue but its stock is down around 18% over the past year.
6-18
6-18
EU set to label AWS and Microsoft Azure as DMA gatekeepers, with a final decision due by end-2026
The European Commission is expected to issue preliminary findings next week that Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure meet the criteria to be designated as “gatekeepers” under the Digital Markets Act. A final decision is expected by the end of 2026, though the timetable could change. If designated, the cloud providers would face obligations such as interoperability, limits on customer lock-in and curbs on self-preferencing, with potential fines of up to 10% of global turnover for breaches.
6-18
6-18
Gary Marcus says a weak OpenAI IPO could hit Nvidia, Oracle and CoreWeave
AI researcher Gary Marcus warned that a disappointing OpenAI IPO could ripple through the company’s heavily relied-upon AI infrastructure suppliers. OpenAI spent $34 billion last year, is projected to burn about $27 billion in 2026, and is consuming $3.7 billion in cash this quarter while remaining unprofitable and facing legal scrutiny. He said Nvidia, Oracle and CoreWeave—now a Nasdaq100 constituent—have benefited materially from OpenAI’s demand for compute, and could face revenue and valuation pressure if OpenAI cuts spending after going public.
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