FT: Anthropic offers Blackstone double-digit yield in chip financing, complicating its investment-grade goal
AIFlow_ML · x · 2026-10-17
A Financial Times screenshot shows Anthropic offering Blackstone double-digit yields in its latest chip financing deal; high borrowing costs complicate the AI lab's goal of achieving investment-grade status. The poster's jab "Dario have to go" folds the report into ongoing drama over Anthropic's heavily leveraged compute-financing strategy.
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