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Apollo Capital Management and several banks are discussing financing for SpaceX's planned $40 billion Nvidia GPU purchase. The financing is expected to rely primarily on investment-grade debt, with the GPUs likely serving as collateral and Apollo playing a leading role. The talks follow SpaceX's $25 billion bond sale after its June IPO, as AI-related bonds sell off, credit spreads widen, and fixed-income investors demand higher yields.
Oct 2026 · CNBC TechNews article
Microsoft opens preorders for its $2,599 Surface Laptop Ultra, a Windows laptop containing an Nvidia AI chip. The device offers up to 128 gigabytes of unified memory and one petaflop of computing power, and begins shipping Oct. 16. Its software can route AI coding requests between the local GPU and the cloud, while Windows 11 adds containers to restrict coding agents’ system access.
Oct 2026 · CNBC TechNews article
Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 5.5, cutting API prices by 90% for requests under 100,000 tokens and targeting repetitive enterprise tasks such as summarization, classification, and database queries. Pricing starts at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens, matching OpenAI’s GPT-6 Luna; Anthropic estimates typical workloads cost about 75% less than on Haiku 4.5. The company reports gains over Haiku 4.5 and GPT-6 Luna on selected benchmarks, while Sonnet 5.5 remains ahead, and also reduces Sonnet caching charges and adds API credits for some subscribers.
Oct 2026 · VentureBeatNews article
Google has been ordered to halt work on its planned data centers in Muhos and Kajaani, Finland, until environmental impact assessments are complete. The Finnish Licensing and Supervision Agency directed Google subsidiary Tuike Finland Oy to suspend activities including tree removal, excavation, and road construction by Oct. 23, while allowing planning and low-impact surveys to continue. Google says it will follow the agency’s guidance and is advancing biodiversity plans, including tree planting across 130 hectares at Muhos.
Oct 2026 · CNBC TechNews article