ByteDance secures $29.6B syndicated loan; Crusoe signs $13B AI cloud deal with Jane Street
创业邦 · wechat · 2026-09-04
Key items from this tech morning report:
- ByteDance secured a $29.6B syndicated loan (upsized from $20B); it may lift 2026 capex to as much as $70B, more than double last year.
- Crusoe signed a $13B five-year AI cloud deal with Jane Street and is raising $3B at a $30B valuation.
- Spain's iPronics raised $125M Series B with NVIDIA participating.
- Altman confirmed for the first time that OpenAI will build its own humanoid robots, aiming for one robot per person.
- Uber is cutting 3,300 jobs (10%); Volkswagen plans 50K more layoffs and closing four German plants.
- Apple faces a $2.7B UK class action; memory costs for iPhone 18 Pro are up 400% YoY, with 10-20% price hikes expected.
- Kuaishou influencer "Boya" fined 3.477M RMB for tax evasion; Renren FY re-launched on the App Store.
- Alibaba Cloud's Qoder launched a glasses edition; Tmall opened a Token top-up hub; Meta dropped token-usage review metrics.
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