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Heil Grok! The world’s richest man, who once called himself the “Imperator of Mars”, says he is “rewriting the history books” by financing a new age of ­data-driven research in archaeology, powered by AI.

🔗 www.thetimes.com/world/europe...
October 29, 2025 at 10:51 AM
katie0martin.ft.com
'The investment comes as the company undergoes rapid growth from companies and governments seeking “sovereign” European alternatives to US groups such as Microsoft, Amazon and Google.'

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Mistral raises $830mn to build Nvidia-powered AI centres in Europe
[FREE TO READ] French company’s debut debt financing follows rising demand for alternatives to US groups
as.ft.com
March 30, 2026 at 9:18 AM
hapsis.bsky.social
Armadin raises $255.5 million for AI-powered cybersecurity platform

www.scworld.com/brief/armadi...

#Cybersecurity #Cyber #SituationalAwareness
Armadin raises $255.5 million for AI-powered cybersecurity platform
Cybersecurity startup Armadin Inc. has announced a significant funding round, raising $255.5 million in Series B financing at a valuation exceeding $2.5 billion.
www.scworld.com
October 2, 2026 at 4:57 PM
peterbordes.bsky.social
🤜 @experian-us.bsky.social builds next-generation lending marketplace for small business financing powered by LendFlow !

www.lendflow.com/post/powered... #AI #SMB #fintech
November 25, 2025 at 8:11 PM
eib.org
We are lending up to €870 million to Nokia to accelerate research & development in 5G-Advanced and AI-powered 6G.

Backed by #InvestEU, the financing strengthens Europe’s technological leadership, strategic autonomy and competitiveness in telecoms.
👉 go.eib.org/Nokia_EIB
December 16, 2025 at 10:03 AM
buyorsellstocks.com
What the AI panel said on #$NVDA:

Qwen (bearish): "Buybacks don't erase valuation or financing risk."

GPT (bullish): "Time to buckle up and enjoy the AI-powered journey ahead."
October 1, 2026 at 12:05 AM
techmeme.com
Paris-based AI startup Mistral raised $830M in its debut debt financing to build Nvidia-powered data centers across Europe; Mistral plans to spend €4B in total (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)

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March 30, 2026 at 8:30 AM
ucs.org
Laura Peterson's blog shows how the largest publicly-owned oil & gas companies are leveraging AI demand to attract investors and financing while locking in fossil fuel infrastructure at a crucial moment for arresting climate change’s most harmful effects. But it’s not too late to disrupt this trend:
Data Centers Are Not a License to Drill
A new UCS study shows data centers can be powered primarily with clean energy like wind and solar, meeting electricity demand while—if paired with ratepayer protections—protecting public health and pocketbooks.
blog.ucs.org
February 23, 2026 at 3:15 PM
asianewstoday.bsky.social
Overlord Labs Closes Oversubscribed Seed Financing #OverlordLabs #SeedFunding #BatteryIntelligence #EdgeAI #Semiconductor
Overlord Labs Closes Oversubscribed Seed Financing
Bringing Total Funding to $10 Million to Advance Battery Intelligence for Edge AI Devices SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Overlord Labs, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company building battery intelligence infrastructure for compute-intensive, battery-powered devices, today announced the close of its oversubscribed Seed financing, bringing total funding raised to-date to $10 million. The total comprises $7.25 million in Seed financing and the remainder in non-dilutive strategic development funding. The financing comes as Overlord Labs transitions from tape-out to product validation, following the successful bring-up of its flagship GENESIS™ Battery Intelligence IC, built on the company’s proprietary Silicon × […]
dlvr.it
September 27, 2026 at 7:49 PM
hyprelectric.bsky.social
• "Financing the Future: EV Financial Innovation"
• Revfin: Specialized EV financing
• Finayo: AI-powered lending platform
• Ohm Mobility: End-to-end financing solutions
• Vidyut Tech: Commercial EV financing
December 2, 2024 at 6:30 AM
honestcanadian.bsky.social
Led by Raquel Urtasun, Canadian Waabi just raised the largest $ "primary capital" financing in Canadian history, $1.02 billion CAD.
"primary capital" means the $ goes to the company not investors etc.
She & Waabi are developing AI powered robo taxis & trucks.
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Waabi claims largest-ever Canadian tech fundraise as it hauls in $750-million USD Series C
Toronto-based autonomous vehicle startup Waabi announced this morning that it has secured $750 million USD in fresh financing—one of the largest funding rounds in Canadian tech history.
betakit.com
February 3, 2026 at 3:56 PM
maranoagirl.bsky.social
2/ Who is financing it is not stated but:
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March 28, 2026 at 10:42 PM
ampsortation.bsky.social
We’ve closed $70M in project debt financing led by Galvanize to support new MSW sortation & organics processing infrastructure in Virginia—a milestone demonstrating that AI-powered waste sorting has moved from novel tech to financeable infrastructure.

ampsortation.com/articles/gal...
September 30, 2026 at 2:12 PM
eib.org
We are backing Swedish adtech firm DanAds with €21 million to scale AI-powered self-serve ad tools for publishers.

Through #InvestEU, this financing boosts EU digital innovation and helps SMEs access premium ad space, reducing reliance on Big Tech.

👉 bit.ly/Sweden_EIB_T...
July 2, 2025 at 1:33 PM
techmeme.com
Metropolis, which provides AI-powered parking services, raised $650M in debt and $1.05B in Series C financing to buy parking management company SP Plus (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

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October 5, 2023 at 4:10 PM
stockupdatesnow.bsky.social
Mistral secures $830 million in debt financing to fund AI data center

French AI startup Mistral said Monday it has secured $830 million in debt financing to fund a data center powered by thousands of Nvidia chips. Founded in 2023, Mistral is one of the few European startups building foundational…
Mistral secures $830 million in debt financing to fund AI data center
French AI startup Mistral said Monday it has secured $830 million in debt financing to fund a data center powered by thousands of Nvidia chips. Founded in 2023, Mistral is one of the few European startups building foundational AI models, looking to compete with the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic, albeit with a far smaller war chest. The company has increasingly looked to invest in the infrastructure needed to power AI, and in February it announced a…
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March 30, 2026 at 7:36 AM
sjoneswastaken.bsky.social
There is no demand

"To be explicit: the demand for AI-powered software is not there, & neither is the demand for selling AI-powered add-ons to other software"

"the current state of the tech industry is based on mania, deceit, circular financing, & outright cons"
www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-deman...
Text from the cited article says, "Analysts Estimate Anthropic and OpenAI Represent More than 70% of All AI Revenues, And We Are Building Hundreds Of Billions Of Dollars Of Data Centers For Nobody Let’s also be blunt about something: neither OpenAI nor Anthropic have worked out their business models. You can fart around claiming that Anthropic was profitable (it wasn’t) for a single quarter or repeat theoretical mantras about “positive gross margins” or say “they can just stop training” all you want. These companies lose tens of billions of dollars, they are horrendously unprofitable, an[d at this time do not have an actual answer to “how do these businesses function without infinite resources?”
August 14, 2026 at 4:57 PM
stshank.bsky.social
A home battery company I had my eye on back in my journalism days. Lunar Energy raised $233M. www.lunarenergy.com/blog/news/lu...
Lunar Energy raises $232 million to scale home battery deployments and AI-powered VPP software to meet surging demand for affordable electricity
Oversubscribed Series D financing of $102 million led by B Capital and Prelude Ventures follows a previously unannounced $130 million Series C led by...
www.globenewswire.com
February 5, 2026 at 7:39 PM
backyardpolitics.bsky.social
In the United States we're allowing #Flock to install surveillance with private financing, so these protests of the government aren't happening.

But the government is still using the data, and still tracking us. And private industry is, too. Maybe we should be protesting.
Modi government challenged over AI-powered surveillance during Cockroach movement protests
Government has often been accused of expanding surveillance powers and tightly controlling digital communications
www.theglobeandmail.com
July 27, 2026 at 3:06 PM
amir-hasan.bsky.social
www.auntminnie.com/clinical-new...
Ultromics raises $55M in funding round
Ultromics has raised $55 million in series C financing that will go toward its AI-powered echocardiography software portfolio.
www.auntminnie.com
July 31, 2025 at 7:15 PM
fibonaccieu.bsky.social
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USA, wake up.

Your S&P is kept afloat by 1 company, and 1 company only: NVIDIA. The other 6 tech companies are depending on an AI future, powered by NVIDIA GPU's. We've all seen the graph of insider financing.

Remember when Crypto went from GPUs to ASICs?
Yeah. 1 year max. Brace yourselves.
Google TPU Killing NVIDIA GPU's for AI - Jensen Huang Misses the Point of ASICs
YouTube video by Eli the Computer Guy
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December 6, 2025 at 10:22 AM
international.cnbc.com
French AI startup Mistral said Monday it has secured $830 million in debt financing to fund a data center powered by thousands of Nvidia chips.

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March 30, 2026 at 10:00 AM
siliconrepublic.bsky.social
French AI start-up Mistral raises $830m in debt.
French AI start-up Mistral raises $830m in debt
French AI start-up Mistral has raised $830m in debt financing to fund its data centre near Paris for a powered capacity of 44MW.
www.siliconrepublic.com
March 30, 2026 at 8:39 AM
jeff.doctor
please buy our oil and gas powered magic beans
a screenshot from a news conference of Danielle Smith, headlines say "MOU exempts Alberta from aspects of federal law to make pipeline happen - with conditions" "MOU: What's in it? Construction and financing of world's larged carbon capture and storage project" "Construction of thousands of megawatts of AI computing power" "Federal government to not implement the Oil and Gas Emissions Cap" "'This will allow us to see some substantial investments' says Smith of energy framework
November 27, 2025 at 5:47 PM
edzitron.com
While Broadcom and NVIDIA talk a big game about "demand for AI," their chip sales are really a proxy for OpenAI and Anthropic's compute, who are used to pump up the backlogs of neoclouds with contracts they can't afford to create an illusion of AI demand.
www.wheresyoured.at/concentratio...
I’m going to dispense with the direct Great Financial Crisis comparisons at this point because I think it’ll get in the way of the analysis, but let’s be abundantly clear about something: either directly or by proxy, NVIDIA’s customer base is effectively Anthropic and OpenAI. As I went into in part 2 of my Hater’s Guide To Circular Financing, OpenAI and Anthropic provide two functions to hyperscalers and NVIDIA: They are the largest direct consumer of AI compute, representing more than 70% of all AI revenues for Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Oracle, SpaceX, Cerebras and Lambda, either through direct contracts or via hyperscalers renting compute (see: Nebius and Microsoft, Lambda and Microsoft/Amazon, CoreWeave with Microsoft). They are a way of creating the illusion of demand via revenue backlogs. To get specific about that second point, whenever you hear someone say that there’s “massive demand for AI compute,” they always point to revenue backlogs that are, for the most part, either OpenAI, Anthropic, or someone else renting them compute. For example, CoreWeave’s latest earnings involved the outright-deceptive statement that its “[$104 billion] revenue backlog [highlights] unprecedented demand for CoreWeave Cloud,” even though $22.4 billion of that is OpenAI, $21 billion is from Meta, $6 billion is from Jane Street (which also invested), and the rest is from some combination of Anthropic, Microsoft, and NVIDIA’s $6.3 billion backstop deal to buy unused capacity. To be specific, CoreWeave’s backlog increased by $32.6 billion in the earnings immediately following its Anthropic deal. You can already see this in NVIDIA’s latest earnings. Almost half — 44% — of its FY2027 revenue so far (two quarters) came from three customers, and 16% of its most-recent quarterly revenue came from one customer, likely SpaceX, which serves Anthropic compute. Per my recent premium newsletter, UBS estimates that around 50% of NVIDIA’s data center revenue comes from Meta, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Oracle, with Deutsche Bank estimating it’s as high as 60%. The justification for these further capital expenditures is, for the most part, driven by OpenAI and Anthropic, with their demand driven in large part by unprofitable AI startups subsidizing their users’ AI tokens. While NVIDIA might talk about how we’ve “reached AGI” or that there’s “crazy demand,” the actual financial returns on buying NVIDIA GPUs are driven almost entirely by OpenAI and Anthropic, by which I mean Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Oracle, CoreWeave, Lambda, Hut8, Fluidstack, and basically every other counterparty is building capacity either mostly or entirely to capture their revenue. The best example I can find is SB Energy, which has a $439 billion backlog, 99.4% of which is earmarked for OpenAI. Further non-OpenAI/Anthropic GPU sales are contingent on NVIDIA’s perception management keeping everybody believing that there’s real demand for AI compute, which is why it effectively acquired Poolside, and may invest billions in Perplexity and Thinking Machines. Neither of these companies could actually afford to exist without venture capital (or NVIDIA) dollars, but with NVIDIA’s investment, they can potentially add hundreds of millions or billions of dollars of further “demand” to the backlogs of hyperscalers or neoclouds. And, fundamentally, NVIDIA’s revenues are dependent on whether hyperscalers keep being paid by OpenAI and Anthropic, because those are the only two companies that could ever hope to justify their trillion-plus dollars of capex. As I’ve already noted, per Bloomberg, only around $10 billion of Microsoft’s $33.33 billion in FY2026 AI revenue came from selling compute or AI-powered software to its customers — a pathetic sum that suggests very little actual demand for AI when you remove its unsustainable failson. Broadcom, in its attempts to compete with NVIDIA, has decided it needs a little concentration risk of its own, and per its most-recent earnings, Anthropic and OpenAI are set to become its largest and second-largest customers in its next fiscal year. Much like the hyperscalers, neither Broadcom nor NVIDIA is going bankrupt as a result of the AI bubble bursting, but Broadcom’s future revenues — estimated at $230 billion in Fiscal Year 2028 (which begins November 2027) — are now dependent on both direct purchases from hyperscalers (justified by Anthropic and OpenAI) and the AI labs themselves, creating, somehow, greater underlying exposure.
September 8, 2026 at 3:19 PM