Broadcom to Lend Anthropic Up to $42 Billion to Lease Its Own Chips
sourdub · reddit · 2026-10-07
Broadcom plans to lend Anthropic up to $42 billion, which Anthropic will use to lease Broadcom's own chips, Yahoo Finance reports. Critics call the structure "circular investing": debt converts to revenue on the lender's books, flattering both parties' financials. Reddit users note such deals are increasingly common in the AI compute arms race — financial engineering that inflates compute purchasing scale and deepens worries about an AI infrastructure bubble.
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