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AI compute company General Compute completes $100 million Series A funding, led by Abstract Ventures and others
Odaily reports: AI compute startup General Compute has completed a $100 million Series A funding round, led by Blackbird Ventures and Abstract Ventures, with a post-money valuation of $800 million, a significant increase from the $60 million valuation after its seed round in May this year. The funding was driven by an order from a large customer with $100 million in annual recurring revenue.General Compute focuses on AI inference compute, using specialized chips from NVIDIA competitors, and has reached a $400 million chip procurement agreement with SambaNova, with suppliers also including Positron and Cerebras. Unlike the traditional approach of building large data centers, the company deploys AI compute by leasing data center space, utilizing smaller-scale power resources, and retrofitting Bitcoin mining farms, with plans to deploy 75 megawatts of compute capacity by 2027. Amid CoreWeave's stock falling to near a 12-month low and Elon Musk's prediction that more than 200 new cloud service providers will undergo elimination and consolidation, General Compute co-founder and CEO Finn Puklowski believes that market fears of a chip-induced industry collapse are severely exaggerated, and customer demand for various chips and compute remains strong.PANews, October 27: According to reports, AI compute startup General Compute has completed a $100 million Series A funding round, led by Blackbird Ventures and Abstract Ventures, with a post-money valuation of $800 million, a significant increase from the $60 million valuation after its seed round in May this year. Currently, General Compute focuses on AI inference compute, using specialized chips from NVIDIA competitors, and has reached a $400 million chip procurement agreement with SambaNova, with suppliers also including Positron and Cerebras. (TechCrunch)
Galaxy Digital Q3 net income reached $323 million, adjusted EBITDA reached $455 million
Galaxy Digital released its Q3 2026 financial results, reporting a net profit of $323 million, marking a turnaround from an $85 million loss in the previous quarter. Adjusted EBITDA reached $455 million, while total assets grew sequentially by 51% to $16.4 billion. Cash, stablecoins, and U.S. Treasuries totaled $4.9 billion, nearly doubling quarter-over-quarter. In its digital asset business, trading volume increased sequentially by 12%, outperforming the broader spot market. The combined scale of asset management and staking grew sequentially by 46% to $10.4 billion, alongside a multi-year partnership with BNY Mellon to provide staking support for its digital asset custody platform. The data center business saw adjusted EBITDA rise nearly fivefold sequentially to $69 million, primarily driven by the first full operating quarter following the delivery of 133 MW of compute capacity for Phase I of Helios to CoreWeave. Phase II has broken ground with fully funded financing. The company completed a $3.5 billion issuance of senior secured bonds for this purpose, and its overall power pipeline has expanded to over 5.7 GW, with server room deliveries expected to begin in Q2 2027. Regarding capital operations, the $200 million share repurchase program launched in February was completed on October 15, with approximately 9.8 million shares cumulatively repurchased. On October 26, the Board of Directors approved a new $200 million repurchase authorization.
QCP: AI Credit Stress Spreads, Dragging Down Equities and Bitcoin as Funds Shift to Long-Term US Treasuries for Safety
QCP stated that credit risk related to AI infrastructure is undergoing accelerated repricing. The yield on CoreWeave bonds has risen to approximately 15% year-to-date, and its stock price fell 10% on October 22 as markets begin to reassess high financing costs and debt sustainability. This pressure has spread from CoreWeave to the broader neocloud infrastructure sector, weighing on tech stocks and crypto assets while driving funds toward long-term US Treasuries.
Goldman Sachs: CoreWeave Funding Gap Manageable, $106 Target Price
Goldman Sachs concludes that the funding gap can be covered by debt financing, customer advance payments, and operating cash flow.
Binance Research: U.S. September CPI Rises to 3.7%, Bitcoin Miners Accelerate Divergence
According to Binance Research’s weekly report, U.S. CPI rose to 3.7% in September, with energy accounting for more than one-third, while YoY PPI climbed to 6.3%. Based on the EIA oil price trajectory, headline CPI could peak at approximately 3.9% in October before declining to roughly 2.6% by March 2027. In the AI sector, Anthropic’s Q3 revenue grew 45% quarter-on-quarter, significantly below the previously observed rate of more than doubling. Its Binance Pre-IPO contracts dropped 8.8% over two trading days, while yields on CoreWeave’s 2032-maturing bonds rose to approximately 16%. Binance Research stated that cooling AI demand and rising financing costs are simultaneously impacting AI infrastructure transactions.
CoreWeave High-Yield Bond Yield Rises to 15%, As AI Firms' Financing Pressure Sparks Market Concerns
According to Bloomberg, CoreWeave's financing developments are exacerbating market concerns over the funding capabilities of AI companies. Following statements from its co-founders that they are exploring entry into the investment-grade debt market and securing insurance company capital, its high-yield bond yields rose to 15% this week, reaching a level typically viewed as indicative of distressed debt. Some creditors are concerned that the company will continue to incur significant debt in the future.
Investment firm Seawolf Capital is shorting CoreWeave, saying it needs to raise tens of billions of dollars in new funding
Odaily reports: Investment firm Seawolf Capital says it is shorting cloud computing company CoreWeave. The firm was founded by three traders known for the book and film "The Big Short," and co-founder Vincent Daniel said the short position began with an analysis of CoreWeave's business model.Seawolf Capital points out that CoreWeave rents out AI compute powered by high-end GPUs, a model similar to businesses that purchase specific assets and then lease them out. The firm believes the economic lifespan of GPUs may fall short of oil drilling equipment, aircraft, or shipping equipment, and that competing chip compute supply is rapidly increasing.Vincent Daniel said CoreWeave needs to continuously invest large amounts of capital to purchase high-priced AI chips. Based on its assessment of the company's 2027 free cash flow gap and balance sheet leverage, the company may need to raise tens of billions of dollars in new funding on favorable terms. Seawolf Capital says its short thesis is focused on capital availability and cost, not a bearish view on the overall AI trade. (Business Insider)
ARK funds increase positions in CoreWeave, reduce holdings in Shopify and Palantir
According to Ark Invest Tracker (@ArkkDaily), on October 19, multiple funds under Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest underwent portfolio adjustments. ARKK purchased 102,280 shares of CoreWeave (CRWV), representing 0.0836% of the ETF. Simultaneously, it sold 18,087 shares of Shopify (SHOP) and 15,988 shares of Palantir (PLTR), accounting for 0.0418% and 0.0420%, respectively. ARKW followed the same trading direction as ARKK, buying 30,218 shares of CRWV, which accounted for 0.1008%. The fund sold 2,668 shares of SHOP and 2,361 shares of PLTR, accounting for 0.0252% and 0.0253%, respectively. It also sold 500 shares of DraftKings (DKNG), accounting for 0.0005%. On the same day, ARKG purchased three biotech-related assets: 60,269 shares of Iambic Therapeutics (IAM), 19,856 shares of Scribe Therapeutics (SCTX), and 4,835 shares of Freenome (FRNM), accounting for 0.0261% and 0.0100% respectively.
"The AI Stock Oracle" Leopold's fund faces another selloff after heavily betting on AI stocks in early September, with 7 holdings falling an average of 18.3%
Odaily Report: After being forced to liquidate in July of this year, "AI Stock Oracle" Leopold Aschenbrenner's fund Situational Awareness has re-entered AI-related stocks and purchased hundreds of millions of dollars in options in early September.However, since September 8, 6 of the 7 stocks it focused on have fallen sharply: CoreWeave dropped 37.4%, SK Hynix fell 25.8%, SanDisk declined 23.8%, DRAM fell 22.9%, Bloom Energy dropped 18.1%, and Intel fell 9.4%. Only AMD bucked the trend with a 9.1% gain, while the 7 stocks fell an average of 18.3%.The actual investment losses of Situational Awareness still depend on position size, option terms, and subsequent trades. However, even with a long-term bullish view on AI development, options investments may still suffer losses if market movements do not align with the expected timeline. (Coin Bureau)
"The Big Short" Michael Burry Says AI Bubble May Accelerate Bursting, Adjusts Multiple Positions
According to disclosures from the Michael Burry Stock Tracker, Michael Burry, the real-life inspiration behind "The Big Short," stated on his Substack platform that weekend research has led him to believe the artificial intelligence bubble may soon accelerate its collapse. He disclosed his latest position adjustments: closing short positions include short stakes in Micron ($MU), Nebius ($NBIS), Caterpillar ($CAT), the Semiconductor ETF ($SOXX), Nvidia ($NVDA), Oracle ($ORCL), and CoreWeave ($CRWV); opening new short positions involves initiating a short on MetLife ($MET); and adding to and adjusting long positions includes expanding his Palantir ($PLTR) position, rolling his QQQ stake into a larger Nasdaq ($NDX) position, and increasing holdings in Sprouts Farmers Market ($SFM) and QXO ($QXO).
CoreWeave and Nebius Earnings Reveal AI Cloud Computing Trends: Supply Shortage Persists, CSPs Move Toward "AI Infrastructure Operating Systems"
Odaily News - Analyst qinbafrank posted on X platform, stating that the latest earnings reports from CoreWeave (CRWV) and Nebius show the AI cloud computing (CSP) industry is entering a phase of rapid expansion. The competitive focus is shifting from simply providing GPU leasing to building AI infrastructure platforms that encompass computing power, software, data, and operational capabilities.Currently, AI computing demand still significantly exceeds short-term deliverable supply. Meanwhile, pricing power for AI computing is strengthening, but price increases are mainly concentrated on high-value resources. CoreWeave stated that prices for various GPU computing SKUs rose by approximately 25% on average in July; Nebius disclosed that prices for previous-generation GPUs increased by over 30% compared to Q1, with new contracts signed in Q2 averaging over $20 million in annualized revenue per MW, some projects reaching $20 million to $25 million, and short-term emergency capacity prices even reaching $40 million to $50 million per MW.However, price increases are mainly occurring in short-term capacity, next-generation GPUs, large-scale clusters, and production-grade AI inference scenarios. Traditional low-priority, long-term locked-in bare computing power has not seen concurrent price increases. From a profitability model perspective, project-level returns on AI computing are becoming clearer, but overall corporate return on invested capital (ROIC) still needs time to be validated. Nebius has for the first time disclosed relatively clear project payback periods, while CoreWeave is reducing GPU investment pressure through long-term contracts and asset-level financing. However, both companies remain in a high-capital-expenditure phase, with depreciation and financing costs continuing to compress profit margins.Nevertheless, an increasing number of individual projects are achieving closed-loop economic models, indicating that the AI infrastructure business model is gradually maturing. Additionally, both CoreWeave and Nebius are upgrading toward becoming "AI infrastructure operating systems." Future CSP competition will no longer be just about renting out GPU hours but will cover complete service systems including AI training, inference, storage, networking, model deployment, monitoring, security governance, and Agent runtime environments.In terms of capital models, the two companies are also taking different paths: Nebius leans more toward an asset-light model, building AI data centers through capital partners while providing AI infrastructure operations and software capabilities itself; CoreWeave, on the other hand, is promoting a hybrid cloud model through its Omni strategy, deploying complete AI cloud platforms to customers' own data centers and GPU resources, placing greater emphasis on enterprise-level and sovereign AI delivery.Overall, the AI cloud computing industry is evolving from "GPU rental providers" to "AI infrastructure platforms." Short-
Whale Rock Flagship Fund Plummets 21.7% in July, AI Bet's Year-to-Date Gains Nearly Halved
The fund previously held heavy positions in the chip and AI infrastructure sectors, with holdings including SanDisk, Bloom Energy, and CoreWeave, all three of which encountered the overall sell-off in the memory chip sector in July, with SanDisk dropping cumulatively 30% over the past month. Large tech stocks such as Google and Meta also experienced slight pullbacks, as market concerns over sustained high spending on AI intensified.
AI compute company General Compute completes $100 million Series A funding, led by Abstract Ventures and others
Odaily reports: AI compute startup General Compute has completed a $100 million Series A funding round, led by Blackbird Ventures and Abstract Ventures, with a post-money valuation of $800 million, a significant increase from the $60 million valuation after its seed round in May this year. The funding was driven by an order from a large customer with $100 million in annual recurring revenue.General Compute focuses on AI inference compute, using specialized chips from NVIDIA competitors, and has reached a $400 million chip procurement agreement with SambaNova, with suppliers also including Positron and Cerebras. Unlike the traditional approach of building large data centers, the company deploys AI compute by leasing data center space, utilizing smaller-scale power resources, and retrofitting Bitcoin mining farms, with plans to deploy 75 megawatts of compute capacity by 2027. Amid CoreWeave's stock falling to near a 12-month low and Elon Musk's prediction that more than 200 new cloud service providers will undergo elimination and consolidation, General Compute co-founder and CEO Finn Puklowski believes that market fears of a chip-induced industry collapse are severely exaggerated, and customer demand for various chips and compute remains strong.PANews, October 27: According to reports, AI compute startup General Compute has completed a $100 million Series A funding round, led by Blackbird Ventures and Abstract Ventures, with a post-money valuation of $800 million, a significant increase from the $60 million valuation after its seed round in May this year. Currently, General Compute focuses on AI inference compute, using specialized chips from NVIDIA competitors, and has reached a $400 million chip procurement agreement with SambaNova, with suppliers also including Positron and Cerebras. (TechCrunch)
Galaxy Digital Q3 net income reached $323 million, adjusted EBITDA reached $455 million
Galaxy Digital released its Q3 2026 financial results, reporting a net profit of $323 million, marking a turnaround from an $85 million loss in the previous quarter. Adjusted EBITDA reached $455 million, while total assets grew sequentially by 51% to $16.4 billion. Cash, stablecoins, and U.S. Treasuries totaled $4.9 billion, nearly doubling quarter-over-quarter. In its digital asset business, trading volume increased sequentially by 12%, outperforming the broader spot market. The combined scale of asset management and staking grew sequentially by 46% to $10.4 billion, alongside a multi-year partnership with BNY Mellon to provide staking support for its digital asset custody platform. The data center business saw adjusted EBITDA rise nearly fivefold sequentially to $69 million, primarily driven by the first full operating quarter following the delivery of 133 MW of compute capacity for Phase I of Helios to CoreWeave. Phase II has broken ground with fully funded financing. The company completed a $3.5 billion issuance of senior secured bonds for this purpose, and its overall power pipeline has expanded to over 5.7 GW, with server room deliveries expected to begin in Q2 2027. Regarding capital operations, the $200 million share repurchase program launched in February was completed on October 15, with approximately 9.8 million shares cumulatively repurchased. On October 26, the Board of Directors approved a new $200 million repurchase authorization.
Investment firm Seawolf Capital is shorting CoreWeave, saying it needs to raise tens of billions of dollars in new funding
Odaily reports: Investment firm Seawolf Capital says it is shorting cloud computing company CoreWeave. The firm was founded by three traders known for the book and film "The Big Short," and co-founder Vincent Daniel said the short position began with an analysis of CoreWeave's business model.Seawolf Capital points out that CoreWeave rents out AI compute powered by high-end GPUs, a model similar to businesses that purchase specific assets and then lease them out. The firm believes the economic lifespan of GPUs may fall short of oil drilling equipment, aircraft, or shipping equipment, and that competing chip compute supply is rapidly increasing.Vincent Daniel said CoreWeave needs to continuously invest large amounts of capital to purchase high-priced AI chips. Based on its assessment of the company's 2027 free cash flow gap and balance sheet leverage, the company may need to raise tens of billions of dollars in new funding on favorable terms. Seawolf Capital says its short thesis is focused on capital availability and cost, not a bearish view on the overall AI trade. (Business Insider)
CoreWeave launches Physical AI Launchables to simplify physical AI workloads
Odaily reports: AI cloud service provider CoreWeave has announced the launch of Physical AI Launchables, unveiled at the NVIDIA GTC Berlin event. The product offers physical AI workload templates built and tested by CoreWeave engineers, aimed at robotics, autonomous vehicle, and simulation teams, enabling task launch via a single command and reducing upfront preparation work such as environment configuration, storage setup, and task scheduling.The first batch of templates covers five tools—NVIDIA Isaac Sim, CARLA, MuJoCo, NVIDIA AlpaSim, and NVIDIA Cosmos 3—supporting workflows such as data generation, model evaluation, and policy training, and integrating Cosmos Data Factory-related agent skills usable for video, image, and text data augmentation, auto-labeling, and data curation. The platform also provides specially optimized skills for coding agents such as Claude Code and Codex, supporting automatic task launch, run-status monitoring, and result retrieval.CoreWeave is also collaborating with physical AI software vendors including Cadence, Encord, and Voxel51 to bring related products onto its cloud infrastructure.
9 Public Companies Oppose OKX and ICE Tokenizing Their Stocks
Odaily reports: 9 public companies have formally objected to the issuance of tokenized versions of their stocks on a proposed platform backed by OKX and Intercontinental Exchange (ICE). ICE is the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).The companies involved include Cerebras Systems, AppLovin, Applied Digital, Rocket Lab, CoreWeave, Verizon Communications, Applied Optoelectronics, Broadcom, and UnitedHealth Group. The announcement did not disclose the specific reasons for each company's objection.Under the innovation exemption arrangement published by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on September 17, tokenized trading platforms must issue written notice to issuers and provide an opportunity to object before listing third-party tokenized stocks. Over the past 30 days, more than $754 million in funds have moved on-chain, with the total scale of stablecoins and tokenized assets reaching $320 billion. (Cointelegraph)
QCP: AI credit risk outweighs inflation, becoming the market's primary concern; U.S. Treasury yields fall instead of rising.
According to the market briefing released by QCP Capital (QCP Market Colour), US September CPI rose 3.7% year-over-year and 0.6% month-over-month, with market expectations at 3.6% and 0.6%, respectively. Core CPI increased 2.6% year-over-year and 0.3% month-over-month, exceeding forecasts on both metrics. Despite the resilient inflation data, US Treasury yields retreated significantly. During the prior week, yields on 10-year and 30-year US Treasuries briefly spiked to 5.35% and 5.73%, respectively, before capital flowed into long-dated Treasuries as a safe haven, reversing the reflation trade that had previously dominated the market. QCP noted that this risk-off sentiment was primarily driven by credit stress in the AI infrastructure sector. AI compute provider CoreWeave closed down 15.5% on the day, and its five-year credit default swap (CDS) spread widened to 60%, prompting declines in the NASDAQ and South Korea’s KOSPI indices. Separately, MSCI introduced a new “non-operating company” classification framework this week, which may impact whether certain securities retain their place in the index and trigger forced redemptions from passive funds. Consequently, the index inclusion status of Strategy (MSTR) remains uncertain. QCP argued that credit quality within the technology sector is now displacing inflation and fiscal concerns as the primary constraint on risk appetite. With the tech earnings season commencing in approximately two weeks, the upcoming period will serve as a critical benchmark for determining whether AI-related credit risks could spill over into broader asset classes.
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AI compute company General Compute completes $100 million Series A funding, led by Abstract Ventures and others
Odaily reports: AI compute startup General Compute has completed a $100 million Series A funding round, led by Blackbird Ventures and Abstract Ventures, with a post-money valuation of $800 million, a significant increase from the $60 million valuation after its seed round in May this year. The funding was driven by an order from a large customer with $100 million in annual recurring revenue.General Compute focuses on AI inference compute, using specialized chips from NVIDIA competitors, and has reached a $400 million chip procurement agreement with SambaNova, with suppliers also including Positron and Cerebras. Unlike the traditional approach of building large data centers, the company deploys AI compute by leasing data center space, utilizing smaller-scale power resources, and retrofitting Bitcoin mining farms, with plans to deploy 75 megawatts of compute capacity by 2027. Amid CoreWeave's stock falling to near a 12-month low and Elon Musk's prediction that more than 200 new cloud service providers will undergo elimination and consolidation, General Compute co-founder and CEO Finn Puklowski believes that market fears of a chip-induced industry collapse are severely exaggerated, and customer demand for various chips and compute remains strong.PANews, October 27: According to reports, AI compute startup General Compute has completed a $100 million Series A funding round, led by Blackbird Ventures and Abstract Ventures, with a post-money valuation of $800 million, a significant increase from the $60 million valuation after its seed round in May this year. Currently, General Compute focuses on AI inference compute, using specialized chips from NVIDIA competitors, and has reached a $400 million chip procurement agreement with SambaNova, with suppliers also including Positron and Cerebras. (TechCrunch)
Galaxy Digital Q3 net income reached $323 million, adjusted EBITDA reached $455 million
Galaxy Digital released its Q3 2026 financial results, reporting a net profit of $323 million, marking a turnaround from an $85 million loss in the previous quarter. Adjusted EBITDA reached $455 million, while total assets grew sequentially by 51% to $16.4 billion. Cash, stablecoins, and U.S. Treasuries totaled $4.9 billion, nearly doubling quarter-over-quarter. In its digital asset business, trading volume increased sequentially by 12%, outperforming the broader spot market. The combined scale of asset management and staking grew sequentially by 46% to $10.4 billion, alongside a multi-year partnership with BNY Mellon to provide staking support for its digital asset custody platform. The data center business saw adjusted EBITDA rise nearly fivefold sequentially to $69 million, primarily driven by the first full operating quarter following the delivery of 133 MW of compute capacity for Phase I of Helios to CoreWeave. Phase II has broken ground with fully funded financing. The company completed a $3.5 billion issuance of senior secured bonds for this purpose, and its overall power pipeline has expanded to over 5.7 GW, with server room deliveries expected to begin in Q2 2027. Regarding capital operations, the $200 million share repurchase program launched in February was completed on October 15, with approximately 9.8 million shares cumulatively repurchased. On October 26, the Board of Directors approved a new $200 million repurchase authorization.
Investment firm Seawolf Capital is shorting CoreWeave, saying it needs to raise tens of billions of dollars in new funding
Odaily reports: Investment firm Seawolf Capital says it is shorting cloud computing company CoreWeave. The firm was founded by three traders known for the book and film "The Big Short," and co-founder Vincent Daniel said the short position began with an analysis of CoreWeave's business model.Seawolf Capital points out that CoreWeave rents out AI compute powered by high-end GPUs, a model similar to businesses that purchase specific assets and then lease them out. The firm believes the economic lifespan of GPUs may fall short of oil drilling equipment, aircraft, or shipping equipment, and that competing chip compute supply is rapidly increasing.Vincent Daniel said CoreWeave needs to continuously invest large amounts of capital to purchase high-priced AI chips. Based on its assessment of the company's 2027 free cash flow gap and balance sheet leverage, the company may need to raise tens of billions of dollars in new funding on favorable terms. Seawolf Capital says its short thesis is focused on capital availability and cost, not a bearish view on the overall AI trade. (Business Insider)
QCP: AI Credit Stress Spreads, Dragging Down Equities and Bitcoin as Funds Shift to Long-Term US Treasuries for Safety
QCP stated that credit risk related to AI infrastructure is undergoing accelerated repricing. The yield on CoreWeave bonds has risen to approximately 15% year-to-date, and its stock price fell 10% on October 22 as markets begin to reassess high financing costs and debt sustainability. This pressure has spread from CoreWeave to the broader neocloud infrastructure sector, weighing on tech stocks and crypto assets while driving funds toward long-term US Treasuries.
Goldman Sachs: CoreWeave Funding Gap Manageable, $106 Target Price
Goldman Sachs concludes that the funding gap can be covered by debt financing, customer advance payments, and operating cash flow.
CoreWeave launches Physical AI Launchables to simplify physical AI workloads
Odaily reports: AI cloud service provider CoreWeave has announced the launch of Physical AI Launchables, unveiled at the NVIDIA GTC Berlin event. The product offers physical AI workload templates built and tested by CoreWeave engineers, aimed at robotics, autonomous vehicle, and simulation teams, enabling task launch via a single command and reducing upfront preparation work such as environment configuration, storage setup, and task scheduling.The first batch of templates covers five tools—NVIDIA Isaac Sim, CARLA, MuJoCo, NVIDIA AlpaSim, and NVIDIA Cosmos 3—supporting workflows such as data generation, model evaluation, and policy training, and integrating Cosmos Data Factory-related agent skills usable for video, image, and text data augmentation, auto-labeling, and data curation. The platform also provides specially optimized skills for coding agents such as Claude Code and Codex, supporting automatic task launch, run-status monitoring, and result retrieval.CoreWeave is also collaborating with physical AI software vendors including Cadence, Encord, and Voxel51 to bring related products onto its cloud infrastructure.