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SpaceX is making an aggressive financial play, borrowing twenty billion dollars to fund its artificial intelligence ambitions. The move follows an eighty-six billion dollar IPO, with the debt raised just days after listing — a sequencing that underscores how capital-intensive the AI arms race has become, even for the most cash-rich private names in the market.
Staying with artificial intelligence, Anthropic has restored access to its Mythos Five model for select US organizations after the system was taken offline earlier this month following a federal export-control order. The carveout is limited, and the status of its companion model, Fable Five, remains unresolved — leaving the broader regulatory picture around frontier AI still very much in flux.
And on the macro side, AI investment is now showing up meaningfully in US GDP data. What began as a capital expenditure story concentrated in data centers and semiconductors is broadening into a wider economic lift — labor, infrastructure, energy demand — giving analysts reason to revise growth forecasts upward heading into the second half of the year.
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