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https://www.thedailyupside.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/altman-tries-to-square-circular-deals-after-openais-latest-major-financing-pact/
OpenAI Wins Pentagon Work as Altman Tries to Square Circular Deals after Raising $110B - The Daily...
Mar 9, 2026 - Backing from Nvidia and Amazon made it the latest circular deal, in which money-losing AI startups are being financed by their own customers.
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https://www.npr.org/transcripts/nx-s1-5793628
Warner Bros. Discovery shareholders approve $110B merger with Paramount Skydance : NPR
Apr 23, 2026 - Paramount CEO David Ellison must now make his case to regulators and a wary Hollywood that the merger is good for the industry.
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https://www.law.com/corpcounsel/2026/03/30/nfl-hires-veteran-fox-sports-lawyer-ahead-of-likely-renegotiation-of-110b-media-rights-package/?slreturn=20260408185518
NFL Hires Veteran Fox Sports Lawyer Ahead of Likely Renegotiation of $110B Media Rights Package |...
During her two decades at Fox, Claudia Teran negotiated rights deals with the NFL, Major League Baseball and WWE.
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https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/03/openai-aws-frontier-stateful/
OpenAI Secures AWS Distribution for Frontier Platform in $110B Multi-Cloud Deal - InfoQ
Mar 6, 2026 - OpenAI's $110B funding includes AWS as the exclusive third-party distributor for the Frontier agent platform, introducing an architectural split: Azure retains...
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Qwen1.5 is the beta version of Qwen2, a transformer-based decoder-only language model pretrained on a large amount of data
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https://thenextweb.com/news/openai-secures-record-breaking-110b-funding-to-scale-ai-for-everyone
OpenAI secures record-breaking $110B funding
Feb 27, 2026 - OpenAI announces a record-setting $110B funding round with SoftBank, Nvidia and Amazon to scale AI infrastructure.
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