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48 stories taggedAI investment.
Firmus Pulled Its $30 Billion Australian IPO Because Investors Would Not Pay the Price
The AI data centre company, which builds facilities for OpenAI and Meta, walked away from what would have been one of Australia's largest-ever stock market listings after key investors refused to back the valuation.
Enterprise AI Is No Longer a Tool. It Is the Operation.
Global AI investment is heading for $2.5 trillion in 2026, yet most enterprises are still tripping over disconnected systems. The real problem is structural, and the fix is harder than buying better models.
AI's Debt Binge Gets More Expensive as Bond Yields Hit Near 20-Year Highs
A spike in US Treasury yields is raising the cost of the trillions of dollars in borrowing that powers the AI infrastructure build. Smaller players are already feeling the squeeze.
Lightspeed Is Putting Its Entire New India Fund Into AI
The Silicon Valley venture firm has locked in commitments for 80% of its new $250 million India fund, which is built entirely around artificial intelligence for the first time in its history in the region.
SoftBank borrowed $11.1 billion to close its $30 billion OpenAI bet
The Japanese tech investor sold bonds in two currencies to fund the final payment on a deal that will make it OpenAI's largest outside backer, with a 13% stake.
What has to go right for the AI spending gamble to pay off
A handful of tech giants are spending at a scale that dwarfs any industry investment in history. A Wharton finance professor ran the arithmetic and the answer is both clear and sobering.
Nvidia's investment portfolio hit $99 billion. Here is what it is buying and why.
The chip maker behind most of the world's AI hardware is now one of the biggest strategic investors in tech, committing more than $40 billion in 2026 alone.
Crusoe raises $3 billion at a $30 billion valuation as AI data centre demand keeps climbing
The company, which builds large-scale data centres for clients including OpenAI and Oracle, has tripled its valuation in under a year and is now weighing a stock market listing.
SB Energy files for IPO with a $3.2 billion loss and one giant customer
The AI data centre builder backed by SoftBank and its partners OpenAI and Nvidia is heading to the stock market while carrying heavy losses and a frank admission: its near-term future depends almost entirely on OpenAI.
Nvidia forecasts 70% revenue growth as AI chip demand outstrips supply
The company's first-ever one-year revenue forecast calmed investor nerves, but CEO Jensen Huang admits demand is already running ahead of what Nvidia can ship.
Ghost Data Centres Are Jamming Britain's Power Grid, and AI Is to Blame
Developers are reserving grid connections they may never use, blocking real AI projects from getting power. Britain's energy regulator wants to charge them hundreds of millions to stop the queue-jumping.
Nvidia's Next Big Test: Can Ordinary Businesses Pick Up Where Amazon and Google Leave Off?
Nvidia earns most of its money from a handful of giant tech companies. Investors watching Wednesday's earnings want proof that thousands of smaller firms are finally starting to spend too.
Robot brains are getting smarter, but they still can't do a real day's work
Investment is pouring into physical AI, the technology that teaches machines to move through the world. But developers admit their robots are stuck in an early, limited phase, similar to where chatbots were before ChatGPT changed everything.
SEC Investigates Situational Awareness, the AI Hedge Fund That Bet Everything on Artificial Intelligence
The fund, led by a former OpenAI researcher, lost billions when AI stocks fell in late July. Now federal regulators are asking its banks to hand over records.
General Intuition Nears $6 Billion Valuation as Investors Bet on AI That Understands Physical Space
The startup is training AI agents to move through the real world, not just answer questions. A fresh funding round could value it at $6 billion before a single dollar of outside money lands.