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Tech companies are raising billions through equity and bond sales to fund the artificial-intelligence build-out, with Alphabet announcing an $85 billion equity raise.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

One is access to money, in the form of sanctions relief and the unfreezing of tens of billions of dollars from its oil revenues.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

The California smartphone maker has lagged behind its competitors in the AI race as tech companies pour hundreds of billions of dollars into advancing their chatbots and investing in data centers and other infrastructure.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

“Starlink is the internet for the whole planet,” he said in a recent presentation reviewing the IPO, pointing out there are billions of people with either spotty or no internet.

From Barron's • Jun. 7, 2026

All those unseen billions and trillions of charged particles, and possibly, she thought, of Dust, conjured a radiating glow out of the upper atmosphere.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman