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Meta Platforms has teamed with Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase to arrange roughly $13 billion in financing—primarily debt—for its El Paso, Texas, artificial‑intelligence data center. The package, tied to a projected 1‑gigawatt facility slated to open in 2028, would rank among the largest single‑site digital‑infrastructure financings ever assembled. The move reflects Meta’s expanding 2026 capital‑expenditure plan and signals strong credit‑market appetite for AI‑related projects. Ler mais

Anthropic has unveiled Claude Opus 4.7, the company’s most capable model offered to the public to date. Marketed as a step up from Opus 4.6, the new system promises stronger performance on software‑engineering tasks, improved image analysis, and more creative output for slides and documents. While Anthropic continues to restrict its flagship Mythos Preview to a handful of partners, Opus 4.7 ships with added cybersecurity safeguards and the same token‑based pricing as its predecessor. Early adopters include Intuit, Shopify, Databricks and other tech firms eager to test the model’s enhanced capabilities. Ler mais

Anthropic has rolled out Claude Mythos Preview, a new AI model under the Project Glasswing initiative, to a handful of defensive‑security partners. The model, which the company says can identify high‑severity vulnerabilities across major operating systems and browsers without human guidance, will initially be available only to firms like JPMorgan Chase, Cisco and the Linux Foundation. Anthropic is backing the launch with up to $100 million in usage credits and a $4 million donation to open‑source foundations, while also holding preliminary talks with U.S. officials about its offensive and defensive capabilities. Ler mais

SoftBank has obtained an unsecured $40 billion loan to help finance its $30 billion commitment to invest in OpenAI, part of the AI firm’s record‑breaking $110 billion fundraising round. The loan, provided by JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and four Japanese banks, carries a 12‑month term that must be repaid or refinanced by next year. Analysts view the financing as a signal that lenders expect OpenAI’s anticipated public listing to occur later this year, which could provide SoftBank the liquidity needed to settle the debt. The new investment brings SoftBank’s total stake in OpenAI to over $60 billion. Ler mais