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Welcome back. Chip makers like Nvidia and Broadcom are now taking a page out of some of their customers playbooks when it comes to debt. Christina Parts Nevis is here to explain in today's tech check.Christina. Well, Kelly, Broadcom plans to finance the AI boom largely off of its off its own books, I should say. So, the chipmaker is in talks to raise more than $60 billion in debt for a new AI chip deal.CNBC has learned a package that could reach as much as a hundred billion dollars which was first reported ...

Meta is back in court this week in another landmark trial about the safety of its apps for teens. And it deals with claims from 29 states that are being led by California, Colorado, Kentucky, and New Jersey. They make two key claims against Meta.One is that its executives made a series of misleading statements about how safe its platforms were while behind the scenes studying their harmful effects. And the second is that Meta allegedly violated the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act or Kappa by knowin ...

There is a big story playing out in technology this week, and that is meta, which just started a legal fight. Mary Anne Franks, professor at George Washington University Law School, joins us to talk about what we've learned so far. This trial is an accusation by 29 states that Meta deliberately designed its platforms to keep children hooked to them, and also deceive the public, with some privacy breaches.But it's a complicated split of different state laws and one federal privacy law. Could you start by exp ...

Market Trends & IPO Dynamics - Anthropic aims for an initial public offering (IPO) targeting a scale that could match or exceed SpaceX's debut, which raised 75 billion dollars [1][2] - Anthropic reported net losses of nearly 42 billion dollars in 2025, representing a fivefold increase from 2024 [2] - Broadcom is in discussions to raise more than 60 billion dollars in debt through a special purpose vehicle, with total potential debt structures reaching around 100 billion dollars composed of senior secured and junior debt [19][23][24] Financial Performance & Shareholder Returns - Total debt issued for AI infrastructure has reached over 220 billion dollars this year, more than double the volume issued in 2025 and significantly higher than approximately 20 billion dollars in 2024 [28] - Samsung Electronics initiated South Korea's largest-ever shareholder return program, planning to return 80 billion dollars in cash through dividends and buybacks [40][41] - SK Hynix plans to spend about 29 billion dollars through November on share buybacks, with both companies returning 50% of free cash flow to shareholders [42] Legal & Regulatory Risks - Meta faces a potential penalty calculation of 1.4% trillion dollars (reported as a theoretical aggregate maximum in legal filings), while state attorneys general focus on figures closer to 200 billion dollars [53][54][61] - Meta is navigating an antitrust and consumer protection lawsuit initiated by 29 states regarding platform design and data privacy practices [47][49]

It's making its biggest move yet to finance the AI boom and largely this time off its own books. So CNBC David Faber has confirmed the chip maker is in talks to raise more than 60 billion. Faber is even saying close to 70 billion in debt for a new AI chip deal.A package that could reach as much as a hundred billion. The story was first reported by Bloomberg. So that's where that hundred billion dollar number it came from.But it would benefit Anthropic and other customers. One caveat though is that the repor ...

Smart phone cameras have been getting better and better at capturing flawless, true-to-life images. But is that what the people really want? David Imel joins Nilay Patel and Jake Kastrenakes to talk through the Pixel 11's Camera Looks. They're Google's nod to the trend of retro digital and analogue cameras, and alter how a photo is processed on the sensor level. At the same time, its super zoom is still hallucinating text and making stuff up.Then it's a supersized Brendan Carr is a Dummy, with increasingly ...

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Market Trends and Investment Opportunities - Unitary Robotics completed a blockbuster IPO in Shanghai, surging 460% on its first trading day and marking a significant milestone for the robotics industry [2] - Market observations indicate an increasing trend of companies seeking dual listings on both the Hong Kong market and the broader Asian market [3] - International investors are demonstrating a heightened focus on the Asian market, generating optimism for a wave of upcoming artificial intelligence IPOs [2][3] Regulatory Risks and Legal Challenges - Meta faces a massive potential legal penalty estimated at $1.4 trillion in an ongoing court case [1][3] - Twenty-nine states filed a lawsuit against Meta, alleging the deliberate design of platforms to addict children and expose them to harmful content while deceiving the public [4] - Meta strongly denies the allegations in the multi-week trial, which legal observers compare to the historic tobacco litigation against social media companies [4]