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Good morning. Nvidia is trying to turn AI chips into something Wall Street already knows how to finance: infrastructure. The company has struck memorandums of understanding with six major asset managers — Apollo, Blackstone, BlackRock, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR — to mobilize more than $500 billion in outside capital for AI compute buildouts. The idea, as Jensen Huang put it, is to treat GPUs and data centers the way lenders treat toll roads or office towers, letting hyperscalers and AI labs borrow against the hardware itself rather than draining their own balance sheets. That matters because the AI boom's biggest constraint isn't demand or even chips anymore, it's who pays for the buildings and power to run them all. If this works, it effectively securitizes the AI buildout, spreading the financial risk of the spending spree across pension funds, insurers, and private credit rather than concentrating it on a handful of tech balance sheets. Below: today's five recent stories across markets, AI, policy, and security. | |||||
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