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The Financial Times reported Thursday that OpenAI's annualized revenue is on track to reach $50 billion, roughly $20 billion below earlier reported figures, based on financial documents shared with investors. The lower run-rate suggested the pace of growth for AI leaders is moderating rather than accelerating. Tech stocks fell in afternoon trading: the Nasdaq composite dropped 1.3%, the S&P 500 fell 0.6%, and AI-exposed names sold off hard - CoreWeave and Constellation Energy each fell about 6%, while Astera Labs and Arm Holdings each plunged roughly 8%. Futurum strategist Shay Boloor noted the $20B gap between OpenAI's real run-rate and reported number reflects sales flowing through AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure rather than disappearing revenue.

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The Wall Street Journal reported that Broadcom has spent recent weeks working to arrange more than $50 billion in financing for the custom AI chip it is developing with OpenAI, with Apollo and Blackstone among the lenders approached. Separately, Oracle is in talks with Apollo and Goldman Sachs to fund a large chip purchase, likely through a separate entity that would buy the chips and lease them to Oracle. SpaceX has also spoken with lenders in recent days about a roughly $40 billion financing tied to Nvidia chips, first reported by the FT. Talks are at an early stage and deal sizes could change, but Broadcom and Oracle aim to close before year-end. Reuters' Thursday 'Open Interest' market piece highlighted these reports as the latest turn in the 'circular financing' wave in AI.

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Marvell Technology used its investor day on Tuesday, Oct 6, to unveil long-term financial targets of $70 billion to $90 billion in revenue for fiscal 2031. The outlook implies roughly 55% to 60% annual growth over the next half-decade, driven by AI data-center demand for its custom silicon and networking products. Shares advanced about 5% Tuesday, with investors treating the targets as a credible signal that AI infrastructure spending has a long runway.

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Bloomberg reported on Oct 2 that Broadcom's Wall Street banking syndicate is assembling a $60B financing package to help Anthropic and other AI companies buy AI chips and computing infrastructure. Banks are preparing syndication letters for a $42B Class A senior-secured tranche, while Blackstone is leading an $18B Class B junior tranche, committing $9B of its own funds and syndicating the rest to other investors. The package has not been formally announced and Broadcom declined to comment. Separately, Reuters reported Thursday that Anthropic's IPO prospectus disclosed Broadcom has agreed to lend the AI company up to $42B to finance its TPU lease obligations — roughly one-third of Anthropic's $125.2B five-year commitment to lease computing capacity. Some of the debt instruments could be converted into Anthropic shares, and the prospectus flags 'potential conflicts of interest' from Broadcom's dual role as chip vendor and lender. AVGO rose ~3.5% Friday (trading near $351.83 intraday) and Alphabet (GOOGL) rose ~1.6%.

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Reuters reported on October 1 that Anthropic's IPO prospectus discloses Broadcom has agreed to lend the AI lab up to $42 billion to finance infrastructure spending, via convertible notes that could be converted into Anthropic shares. The loan would cover about a third of the $125.2 billion, five-year commitment Anthropic has made to lease TPU computing capacity co-designed by Google and Broadcom. In turn, Anthropic stands to become the largest customer in Broadcom's chip-design business next year, and the AI lab targets a $2 trillion IPO valuation despite 2025 revenue of only ~$4.6 billion against an operating loss exceeding $8 billion.