A spike of investor interest in the data center sector has prompted one major data center developer, Rowan Digital Infrastructure, to consider whether this is a good time to raise fresh capital or possibly even sell, say people familiar with the companyâs thinking. If it were to raise money or sell, it would likely be valued at more than $10 billion, including its debt, the people said. Potential buyers include... Read more âș
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Stablecoin issuer Tether said Friday it has submitted an all-cash offer to buy Italian soccer juggernaut Juventus from the Agnelli family, a novel bid by a cryptocurrency company to acquire a blue-chip global soccer club from one of Europeâs most storied dynasties. Tether is the largest ... Read more âș
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Over the past week, a handful of accounts on Polymarket, the predictions site, bet OpenAI would release a new large language model by December 13. On Thursday December 11, OpenAI released GPT-5.2, and four of these accounts together made over $13,000, according to the trades displayed on their accounts. The payout is adding fuel to suspicions that a handful of accounts on prediction sites such as Polymarket and Kalshi arenât... Read more âș
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OpenEvidence, which operates a ChatGPT-like product for doctors to find health information from medical journals and other trusted sources, is raising $250 million in equity financing that will value the three-year-old startup at $12 billion after the investment, doubling its last private valuation from a financing announced just two months ago, according to a person involved in the deal. If the deal closes, the Cambridge, Mass.-based company will become one... Read more âș
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Oracle has delayed the completion of some of the data centers it is developing for OpenAI to 2028 from 2027, according to a Bloomberg report. Oracle shares fell 5% Friday morning after already dipping earlier in the week, after the firm reported that it burned roughly $10 billion in the November ... Read more âș
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Livestream shopping app Whatnot is targeting close to $1 billion in revenue for 2025, according to a person with knowledge of the companyâs finances. The six-year-old company has quietly grown into one of e-commerceâs hottest companies, raising more than $500 million in new funding this year and ... Read more âș
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Fermi, a young data center developer cofounded by former Texas Governor Rick Perry, said a tenant for its artificial intelligence server campus in West Texas had ended an agreement to lease the site, according to a regulatory filing. The firmâs shares fell more than 40% on the disclosure, ... Read more âș
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Revenue at Elon Muskâs social media service X jumped 17% to $752 million during the third quarter, though the site is still bringing in significantly less cash than when Musk acquired it, Bloomberg reported on Friday. Despite the surge in revenue, X reported a $577 million net loss for the ... Read more âș
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In the weird, wild world of Whatnot, the startup defying Silicon Valleyâs dismal track record with live shopping, the merchants speak a unique lingo. Whatnot is a resale market, where sellers auction off items like sports cards, last seasonâs suede sneakers and off-brand cologne through video livestreams: Itâs eBay crossed with TikTok. So if sellers mention the phrase âsudden deathâ in a live video stream hawking an item, it means... Read more âș
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President Donald Trump has signed an executive order seeking to block states from regulating artificial intelligence, an effort that has been championed by the AI industry and criticised by a broad cohort of Republicans and Democrats. The order, which The Information first reported on in ... Read more âș
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When youâre on your back foot, as OpenAI has lately been, what better way is there to take the offense than to announce a Mickey Mouse deal? Take OpenAIâs partnership with Walt Disney Co., unveiled on Thursday morning. Disney will make a $1 billion equity investment in the ChatGPT creator and will license 200 characters from its film and TV library to OpenAI's Sora video-generation app, including Mickey Mouse, Darth... Read more âș
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Wealthfront, an automated investment adviser, expects to price its initial public offering at up to $14 per share, at the top of the marketed range, according to a securities filing. At that price it would raise $485 million, valuing the company at over $2 billion, a premium to the ... Read more âș
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The Securities and Exchange Commission gave the greenlight to DTCC, the main clearinghouse for U.S. financial markets, to record stocks on blockchain. DTCC said it received a no-action letter from the regulator, allowing it to launch the feature in the second half of 2026. DTCC will allow its ... Read more âș
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Apple won back its right to charge for all transactions on the iPhone in the U.S., even in cases where the app developer uses an external payment system. In the decision from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appealsâpart of Appleâs prolonged legal battle with Epic GamesâApple also lost its attempt ... Read more âș
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Michael Hsu, the former Acting Comptroller of the Currency under President Biden, has joined early-stage VC firm Core Innovation Capital as a venture partner. Hsu will work with founders to âanticipate regulatory hurdlesâ and engage with policymakers, supporting companies in fintech, embedded ... Read more âș
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Itâs not every day we write about debt in this newsletter, but tech investors are increasingly paying attention to credit as a growing source of funding for AI. One big question going into next year is whether lenders will have the stomach to continue backing massive data center projects.A recent debt offering from Blackstone-owned QTS, one of the largest U.S.-based data center developers, points to a potential solution: private credit. Read more âș
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Pinterest is acquiring advertising technology company tvScientific, the companies announced. tvScientific helps smaller companies buy ads on streaming television. Pinterest has been looking to acquire an advertising technology company since earlier this year in an effort to boost its ad sales, ... Read more âș
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Broadcom reported 28% higher revenue of $18 billion for its fourth fiscal quarter ended Nov. 2, driven by a 74% jump in AI chip revenue, reflecting how its business of helping companies like Google develop specialized AI chips is lifting Broadcomâs business significantly. Broadcom shares ... Read more âș
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OpenAI on Thursday released a new flagship AI model, GPT-5.2 as the company tries to improve its ChatGPT chatbot and enterprise sales against rivals Google and Anthropic. The company said that the new generation of models are better at workplace-related tasks including creating spreadsheets, ... Read more âș
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For years, thousands of companies have used Fivetran, a software tool for copying data between various applications and databases, including Salesforce apps. But earlier this year, Salesforce told Fivetran, a startup valued at more than $5 billion, that it would need to connect to Salesforce apps through the software giantâs app store, which takes a 15% commission for any sales generated on the store. If Fivetran didnât do so, it... Read more âș
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Harness, an eight-year-old startup that helps developers manage updates and scan for security bugs in AI applications, announced $240 million in Series E funding led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives at a valuation of $5.5 billion, up from $3.7 billion after its last round three years ago. The ... Read more âș
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Is AI hurting American jobs? A bit, according to Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell, whose comments Wednesday gave the AI fearmongers a good amount of material to work with.In a press conference, Powell said AI was âpart of the storyâ behind the worsening unemployment that prompted the Fed to lower interest rates for the second time in two months. But he was quick to also say it was ânot a... Read more âș
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Nvidia plans to host a private summit next week with startups focused on solving data center power problems that could hold up the development of artificial intelligence, according to several people who were invited. The event, at Nvidiaâs Santa Clara, Calif., headquarters, signals how energy ... Read more âș
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Before we get to todayâs column, we have to mention Disney and OpenAIâs big partnership announcement this morning. As part of a new three-year licensing agreement, OpenAIâs video app Sora and ChatGPT will be able to generate image and video content that includes characters such as Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader, Mickey Mouse and Iron Man from Disneyâs extensive film and TV library. Disney+ users will be able to watch selections... Read more âș
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Walt Disney Co. is investing $1 billion into OpenAI as part of a deal in which Disney is allowing more than 200 characters from its program library to be used in OpenAIâs Sora video-generating app. Among the characters that people will be able to use in Sora videos are Mickey Mouse, Cinderella, ... Read more âș
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Throughout the past couple of years, as AI fever swept Chinaâs technology sector, one giantâTencentâseemed to mostly be sitting on the sidelines. The company, which owns the hugely popular WeChat app, didnât seem enthusiastic to win a fierce race in the country to develop cutting-edge AI models, competing with the likes of DeepSeek, Alibaba and ByteDance. Now Tencent looks like it may finally be ready to fight the AI battle... Read more âș
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The costs of Oracleâs AI data center expansion is becoming clearâand Wall Street isnât happy. The software and cloud firm, which until recently was a solid moneymaker, said Wednesday it burned through $10 billion in cash in the November quarter thanks to a big ramp-up in capital expenditures on AI-focused data centers for its cloud business. Even more troubling for Wall Street: Oracle executives revealed on a conference call with... Read more âș
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President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he thought the sale of Warner Bros. Discovery should include CNN, potentially complicating things for Netflix, which has reached a deal to buy WBDâs studio and streaming operations but not its cable channels such as CNN. Trumpâs preference for a sale of ... Read more âș
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Andreessen Horowitz is opening its first office in Asia, located in Seoul, as it expands its crypto arm in the region. A16z crypto said it has hired Sungmo Park, formerly with Monad Foundation and Polygon Labs, as its first staffer based in Asia, leading its Seoul office. Park will be the head ... Read more âș
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Oracle Chief Financial Officer Doug Kehring said Wednesday that the database and cloud firm was exploring unusual ways to lower its spending on data centers for artificial intelligence. Kehring said that in addition to tapping public and private debt markets, Oracle may let customers bring their ... Read more âș
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