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Summary: Meta signed a multibillion-dollar, multi-year deal to deploy tens of millions of Amazon’s Graviton5 ARM CPU cores in AWS data centres for agentic AI workloads. The chips are general-purpose processors, not AI accelerators, handling the CPU-intensive inference and orchestration tasks behind real-time reasoning and multi-step agents. The deal is one piece of a procurement […]

In short: X-Energy raised $1.02 billion in the largest nuclear IPO on record, pricing at $23 (21% above range) on the Nasdaq, with shares surging 31% on opening to imply a $12 billion market cap. The offering was 15x oversubscribed. The same company failed to close a $1 billion SPAC in 2023. The difference is […]
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X-Energy sold 44.3 million Class A shares at $23 each, above the $16–$19 marketed range, and began trading on Nasdaq under the ticker XE on 24 April. The company has $1.8 billion in prior private capital, a $500 million Amazon-led Series C-1, and a binding commitment from Amazon to buy up to 5 gigawatts of […]
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Project Prometheus, launched in November 2025 with $6.2 billion in initial funding, is developing AI systems that understand the physical world, targeting engineering, manufacturing, aerospace, robotics, and drug discovery. The round has not yet closed. Jeff Bezos is close to finalising a $10 billion funding round for his AI laboratory at a $38 billion valuation, […]