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Milan-based AI company Domyn raised roughly $1.1 billion, making it one of the largest financings ever announced by a European AI company. About 90% of the financing is debt and only around 10% is equity, making the capital structure the central story.
Nvidia announced full-scale production of its Spectrum-X Ethernet Photonics co-packaged optical switch for AI factories, using 200G-per-lane links. SK hynix simultaneously published a CPO technology roadmap targeting over 100 Tb/s per node, sub-1 pJ/bit energy consumption, and sub-10 ns chip-to-chip latency.
Callosum has raised $100 million in early financing to develop software that matches specific AI tasks with suitable models and chips. Backers include the UK’s public AI fund.
Google reportedly bid $10 million for Spirit Airlines’ internal enterprise data, including approximately 100 million emails and 500 million Microsoft Teams messages, in a bankruptcy asset auction. The deal signals the emergence of a market for acquiring sanitized corporate communications and work records to train AI systems and enterprise agents.
Meta’s Muse Video model has entered a closed beta, with early tests highlighting native audio generation. The model reportedly produces 10-second videos with strong visual detail and temporal consistency.
Kuaishou is spinning out its Kling AI video-generation model into a separately financed company, attracting investment from Tencent, Alibaba Cloud, Baidu, and other institutions at an implied valuation of $18 billion. Kling has surpassed 100 million global users and nearly 50,000 enterprise customers, but continues to generate substantial losses because of compute costs.
China has reportedly allowed ByteDance and Tencent to import 10,000 NVIDIA H200 chips each, according to the Financial Times. Other Chinese companies could receive similar approval, potentially easing access to advanced AI computing hardware.
Alibaba’s profit plunged after it raised quarterly capital expenditure for AI to nearly $10 billion. The report also examines Meta’s growing role as a Microsoft AI customer and Castelion’s plans to scale hypersonic missile production.
Mayfield has invested more than $3 billion in AI companies, often before founders have built products or formally incorporated. Managing Partner Navin Chaddha explains the firm’s belief in AI as a potential “100x opportunity” and its decision to remain focused on early-stage investing.
Alipay is positioning its Abao agent as a new commerce gateway where services are selected and executed through natural-language intent rather than ads, search rankings, or app navigation. Abao has connected more than 10,000 AI-enabled services across eight scenarios, including transportation, dining, travel, logistics, and government services.