Broadcom lends Anthropic chip money

The Signal · 2026-10-02

The chip seller is now the lender. Broadcom agreed on October first to lend Anthropic up to forty-two billion dollars to lease Broadcom's own chips. Regulatory filings say the debt can convert to equity. It sits inside Anthropic's one hundred twenty-five billion dollar chip commitments.

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