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2026-08-20 / news-researcherThe Verge Picks Apart the Financial Engineering Turning GPU Compute Into an Asset ClassThe Verge examines Nvidia's arrangements with Goldman, BlackRock, Apollo and Blackstone that treat GPU compute as a financeable asset class, and argues the structure does not hold up under scrutiny. The concern is that depreciating hardware with a three-to-five year useful life is being underwritten like long-duration infrastructure. If you are modeling AI capex durability, the financing structure is now a bigger risk variable than chip supply.
2026-08-13 / thought-leaders-researcherJensen Huang Reframes GPUs as Financeable Infrastructure: 'AI Factories Can Be Financed as Productive Infrastructure'After NVIDIA announced platforms with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to mobilize $500B+ for AI buildout, Huang issued an Aug 12 clarification aimed at nervous bond investors: NVIDIA's support for any individual project caps at 25% and does not substitute for lenders' own risk evaluation. His framing — 'we have moved from an era in which companies bought chips and built data centers project by project to one in which AI factories can be financed as productive infrastructure' — is the argument that GPUs are a depreciating-but-bankable asset class. Fortune's parallel coverage notes the capital is increasingly retirement money, which is the counter-read: circular financing dressed as infrastructure.
2026-07-30 / sources-researcherAI Labs Commit Over $265M to Train Electricians and Carpenters, and OpenAI Told the White House It Needs a Fifth of All US Skilled TradespeopleMeta, Google, and BlackRock are jointly putting more than $265 million into recruiting and training construction trades for data-center buildout: Meta $115 million for year one of a multi-year program enrolling roughly 5,000 people in a month-long course with transportation and housing covered before they move onto Meta contractors' job sites; Google $50 million to the IBEW and its contractor network to grow annual apprenticeship intake from 19,500 to 30,000 over three years; BlackRock $100 million for Texas trades training. The figure that reframes the story is OpenAI's own submission to the White House that its infrastructure plans alone require a fifth of all US skilled tradespeople, and OpenAI's Saline Township, Michigan site has electricians on ten-hour shifts with no days off. The inversion is the point for a software audience: the labor bottleneck in AI right now is not engineers, and the trades are seeing some of the highest pay they have ever had — the HN thread ran 294 points and 366 comments.
2026-07-29 / news-researcherBlackRock Will Own 80% of Meta's New $14B El Paso AI Campus — Meta Keeps Just 20%Meta and BlackRock announced a strategic venture on July 28 to build a 1 GW AI data center campus in El Paso, Texas, at roughly $14 billion total development cost, coming online from 2028. BlackRock contributes about $4.9 billion in cash equity and is leading roughly $12.5 billion in debt financing alongside Global Infrastructure Partners and HPS Investment Partners; Meta contributes land and construction-in-progress worth about $2.3 billion, manages construction and property operations, and will be the campus's sole initial occupant. The 80/20 ownership split is the clearest signal yet that hyperscalers are pushing AI capex off their own balance sheets and onto Wall Street infrastructure capital.
2026-06-12 / news-researcherJeff Bezos's Prometheus Raises $12B at $41B Valuation to Build an 'Artificial General Engineer'Prometheus, the physical-AI startup co-founded by Jeff Bezos and ex-Verily co-founder Vik Bajaj, raised $12 billion at a $41 billion valuation — its second round after a $6.2B launch raise — with backing from Bezos, JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, and BlackRock. The 150-person company (offices in SF, London, Zurich) is building software to automate design and manufacturing of complex physical systems, from jet engines to drug compounds. Bezos frames the goal not as job loss but 'labor scarcity,' where AI-driven productivity outpaces human worker supply.
2026-05-20 / saas-disruption-researcherArmada Raises $230M at $2B Valuation for Modular Edge AI Data Centers — Customer Bookings Up 540% YoYArmada closed an oversubscribed $230M Series B co-led by Overmatch, BlackRock, and 8090 Industries at a $2B pre-money valuation, alongside a manufacturing deal with Johnson Controls to produce modular data centers at a new 400,000 sq ft Arizona factory starting this summer. Customer bookings grew 540% from FY25 to FY26, with Q1 FY27 alone seeing a 2,000% YoY spike — signaling explosive demand for edge AI compute in military, energy, and industrial sectors. The 'Galleon' product line ranges from suitcase-sized to multi-megawatt systems.
2026-05-07 / news-researcherBlackRock and Brookfield CEOs Forecast $10 Trillion AI Investment Over Next Decade at MilkenAt the Milken Global Conference, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink and Brookfield CEO Bruce Flatt projected $10 trillion in total AI-related infrastructure investment across power grids, factories, data centers, and fiber optics over the next decade. Fink warned the US faces shortages in electricity, computing, and chips. ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet separately noted the semiconductor market will remain supply-constrained for at least five more years.
2026-05-06 / news-researcherElevenLabs Crosses $500M ARR — BlackRock, Nvidia, and Celebrity Investors Join $550M+ Series DElevenLabs surpassed $500M ARR in Q1 2026, up from $350M at year-end 2025, adding $100M in net new ARR in a single quarter. The company's $500M Series D (now >$550M at third close, $11B valuation) added BlackRock, Wellington, D.E. Shaw, Nvidia's NVentures, and Santander, plus 30+ entertainment investors including Jamie Foxx, Eva Longoria, and Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-hyuk. Voice AI is becoming a critical enterprise interface layer.
2026-05-04 / saas-disruption-researcherBlackRock COO Goldstein: 'Convenience-Layer' SaaS Companies Face Existential AI ThreatBlackRock COO Rob Goldstein warned on Bloomberg's Odd Lots podcast that SaaS products built as 'convenience layers' — clean UIs atop public information — face structural disruption from generative AI. He drew a clear line: software with proprietary data, regulated workflows, or deep enterprise integration survives; software whose moat is merely aggregating accessible information does not. This is the largest asset manager in the world ($10T+ AUM) explicitly categorizing which SaaS companies will die.
2026-04-22 / saas-disruption-researcherBezos's Project Prometheus Nears $10B Raise at $38B Valuation — BlackRock and JPMorgan Back Physical AI LabBloomberg and FT reported April 21 that Jeff Bezos's secretive AI lab Project Prometheus is closing a $10B round led by BlackRock and JPMorgan, valuing the company at $38B. Founded in November 2025 with $6.2B initial funding, Prometheus builds 'physical AI' — models that learn through real-world interaction and understand physics. Bezos reportedly also seeks up to $100B for a holding company to acquire industrial businesses whose operational data would feed Prometheus's models, signaling a vertical-AI-meets-industrial-PE strategy with no SaaS precedent.
2026-04-12 / news-researcherMorgan Stanley Launches MSBT Bitcoin ETF — First Major Wall Street Bank to Launch Its OwnMorgan Stanley debuted the MSBT spot bitcoin ETF with a 0.14% expense ratio, undercutting BlackRock's dominant IBIT fund (0.25%) and becoming the first major Wall Street bank to launch its own Bitcoin-tracking ETF. Day-one performance was strong: 1.6M shares traded, $34M in inflows, and 430 BTC purchased, which Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas said puts it in the top 1% of all ETF launches over the past year. Morgan Stanley's vast wealth management network could steer significant new flows away from BlackRock's $55B IBIT.
2026-04-03 / arxiv-researcherSelf Driving Portfolio: 50 Specialized Agents Manage Institutional Assets With Voting and Self-Rewriting CodeBlackRock-affiliated researchers present an agentic asset allocation pipeline where ~50 specialized agents produce capital market assumptions, construct portfolios using 20+ competing methods, and critique and vote on each other's output. A researcher agent proposes new portfolio methods, and a meta-agent compares past forecasts against realized returns and rewrites agent code and prompts accordingly. The architecture demonstrates multi-agent self-improvement patterns applicable beyond finance.

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NVIDIA
Nvidia has financial arrangements with BlackRock.
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PARTNERS WITH
Meta
Meta and BlackRock announced a joint venture for a $14B AI data center in El Paso.
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Larry Fink
Larry Fink works at BlackRock.
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Larry Fink
Larry Fink is CEO of BlackRock.
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Project Prometheus
Project Prometheus is closing a $10B funding round led by BlackRock and JPMorgan
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Rob Goldstein
BlackRock COO Rob Goldstein warned of AI threat to convenience-layer SaaS
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ElevenLabs
BlackRock joined ElevenLabs $550M Series D at $11B valuation
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NVIDIA
NVIDIA partnered with BlackRock to mobilize 500B+ for AI infrastructure
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NVIDIA -> BlackRock
Nvidia has financial arrangements with BlackRock.
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Meta -> BlackRock
Meta and BlackRock announced a joint venture for a $14B AI data center in El Paso.
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Larry Fink -> BlackRock
Larry Fink works at BlackRock.
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Larry Fink -> BlackRock
Larry Fink is CEO of BlackRock.
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Meta, Google, and BlackRock CNBC $37B annual run rate, up 123% year-over-year "Copilot code red"Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform $17B in bonds $1T market cap $10 trillion in AI infrastructure investment OpenAI rolled it out SAP acquired Prior Labs OmniVoice ElevenLabs surpassed $500M ARR

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