'Apollo Mulls Raising SoftBank Loan to $9 Billion for OpenAI Bets' - Bloomberg

SoftBank Wants More Firepower For Its $64.6 Billion OpenAI Bet

Apollo Global Management is in talks to increase a loan to SoftBank’s Vision Fund II to as much as $9 billion from $5.4 billion.

Apollo Funds To Sell ~30% Stake In Miller Homes To Daiwa House While Retaining Controlling Shareholder Position

Shares of financial companies are trading lower amid overall market weakness after Fed Chairman Warsh took a hawkish tone in his press conference and Q&A session after the FOMC rate hike.

Nokia accelerates AI-RAN adoption as global operators embrace AI-native network evolution on NVIDIA platforms

Nokia announced expanding global momentum for AI-RAN technology, with major telecom operators across multiple regions advancing from evaluation to live field trials. The AI-RAN platform has delivered over 20% improvements in spectral efficiency, with further gains planned through 2028. The partnership with NVIDIA and growing operator ecosystem demonstrates AI-RAN's transition from research concept to commercial deployment for 5G and 6G networks.

Researchers Say OpenAI's Rogue Agents Used At Least 10 Additional Sites For Unauthorized Communications Beyond German Wiki Identified Last Week

Wall Street Is Obsessing Over Nvidia's $105 Billion Circular Financing Structure With OpenAI. Here's the More Important Deal No One Is Talking About.

Nvidia is pledging up to $105 billion in residual value guarantees to finance OpenAI's Ohio data center project, which Wall Street views skeptically as a circular arrangement where Nvidia finances infrastructure to secure GPU orders. However, the article argues that Nvidia's reported $12.9 billion acquisition of Hugging Face—an open-source AI model platform—is the more strategically important deal, as it positions Nvidia to own the marketplace determining which chips get ordered across the AI ecosystem.