Google is working with Broadcom, Apollo, Blackstone, and Morgan Stanley on a multibillion-dollar financing structure that supplies Anthropic with AI chips and data centers while keeping most of the ri…
Anthropic, the AI startup behind the Claude chatbot, has committed $200 billion to Google Cloud over five years for cloud services and chips, a deal representing over 40% of Google's reported cloud re…
Blackstone is considering a new funding round for Nvidia-backed AI coding firm Factory that would value the San Francisco-based startup at more than $3.5bn, sources told City AM. The deal would mark F…
Jon Gray, president and chief operating officer at Blackstone, said on the firm's podcast aired July 30 that investor impatience about AI returns is 'a little misplaced,' arguing that applications tak…
Loan investors are pushing back against borrower-friendly terms, widening credit spreads and delaying debt deals, which signals higher borrowing costs for private equity and AI firms. UBS models show …
Ryan Williams publicly detailed Ellis, an AI operations platform that reconciles scattered records behind private credit funds, following an $11 million seed round led by First Round in April 2026. Wi…
Stack Infrastructure, the data-centre arm of private-credit giant Blue Owl, is seeking a loan of about $5.9 billion, according to Bloomberg, in what would be one of the largest single financings fueli…
Bloomberg LP is acquiring Canoe Intelligence, an AI-driven platform that automates private markets data collection, in a deal announced July 29. The acquisition brings AI-powered document processing f…
Blackstone-owned data centre firm AirTrunk secured a US$2.3 billion green loan from 30 lenders for its JHB2 hyperscale data centre in Johor, Malaysia, its largest single-asset financing to date. The l…
PIMCO group chief investment officer Dan Ivascyn secured favorable conditions for a $16 billion Oracle data center campus financing in Saline Township, Michigan, with PIMCO anchoring roughly $10 billi…
Blackstone Chief Operating Officer Jonathan Gray said the artificial intelligence boom is 'different' from previous investment cycles, citing the technology's potential to drive transformative product…
Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman said the firm is addressing community concerns around AI development, including workforce, environmental and local economic implications, as opposition to data center…
Blackstone reported Q2 2026 distributable earnings of $1.98 billion, a 26% increase from $1.57 billion a year earlier, as nine of its ten best-performing holdings are tied to artificial intelligence t…
Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman said the firm is 'mindful' of 'excessive exuberance' in AI as the company reported Q2 distributable earnings of $2 billion, or $1.52 per share, up 26% from a year ear…
Blackstone reported $2.4 billion in GAAP net income for the second quarter of 2026, up from $1.6 billion a year earlier, with $68.3 billion of inflows and $1.346 trillion in assets under management. C…
AI chip startup Etched has raised $300 million in a Series C round at a $10 billion pre-money valuation, bringing total funding to $1.1 billion, with $1 billion in pre-orders already secured. The roun…
Blackstone president Jon Gray told Gen Z analysts to think like founders, but a growing number are skipping corporate jobs to start businesses as AI lowers barriers. A GMAC survey found one-third of e…
Forward-deployed engineering is the fastest-growing AI job category, with LinkedIn reporting 42-fold growth from 2023 to 2025 and Indeed showing a 729% increase in postings from April 2025 to April 20…
Anthropic, Blackstone, and Hellman & Friedman launched Ode with Anthropic on July 15, a $1.5 billion enterprise AI services firm with 100 engineers embedded in clients, aiming to solve the 88% failure…
Anthropic, Blackstone, and Hellman & Friedman launched Ode with Anthropic, a $1.5 billion enterprise AI services firm that focuses on implementing AI models inside large companies rather than building…