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SpaceX commits to about $40bn GPU lease financing led by Apollo and Goldman Sachs

SpaceX has made a binding commitment to a master finance lease of about $40bn with an Apollo-managed entity, which will buy Nvidia Vera Rubin chips and related equipment and lease them to SpaceX. Apollo calls it the largest committed GPU financing. The deal is subject to closing conditions and is expected to close before the end of 2026.

Source: Apollo Global Management

  1. Insurance Journal (international)AI in Insurance

    Barclays Turns to Insurers to Hedge Billions of Data Center Debt ↗

    Barclays seeks default protection from insurers on over $10bn of debt financing AI data centres.

  2. techradar.comAI in Insurance

    Bank of America tells customers to stop sharing banking passwords with AI agents — agentic payments are becoming a major thorn in the side of banking ↗

  3. TechCrunch (AI)AI in Insurance

    Bank of America kindly asks that you don’t share your banking password with your AI assistant ↗

    Bank of America tells customers they stay responsible for activity by AI agents given access to their accounts.

  4. The Guardian (AI)AI in Insurance

    Chinese markets lose trillions as race for AI supremacy with US takes its toll ↗

  5. The Guardian (AI)AI in Insurance

    Meta plans $95bn stock offering to help cover AI expansion ↗

    Meta plans a $95bn two-part stock offering to cover AI spending, as Musk warns smaller AI startups face collapse.

  6. afr.comAI in Insurance

    NAB chief executive Andrew Irvine must come clean on the role of artificial intelligence in the bank's 2500 job losses ↗

  7. TechCrunch (AI)AI in Insurance

    Block’s new voice model sounds eerily human ↗

  8. freepressjournal.inAI in Insurance

    SEBI's Gift For Stock Brokers: Compliance 2.0, AI Rules In Focus ↗

    SEBI's compliance 2.0 package for brokers puts AI rules in focus.

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