backer
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It has become a backer to those that rely on its chips, providing some funding to the likes of OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceX to help continue the costly buildout of AI infrastructure.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Japanese Defence Minister Shinjiro Koizumi, on a visit to Australia, supported security cooperation with key defence backer Washington and neighbour Seoul.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
Adani, one of India's richest men and a vocal backer of Trump on social media, has been rocked in recent years by corporate fraud allegations and a stock crash.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
His new backer Universal not only gives him near-total autonomy, but sacrifices potential home-entertainment revenue by giving his movies an extraordinarily long amount of time exclusively in theaters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
Ever attuned to the ebb and flow of research funding, he recognized that the government stood to become as generous a financial backer as the medical foundations he had mined to build the sixty-inch.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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Other backers in the most recent transaction include the investment arm of publicly traded cybersecurity company Zscaler and Bright Pixel Capital, the venture arm of Portuguese retailer Sonae.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Its financial backers were struggling and its stars - including horror legend Christopher Lee - had to go without being paid to get it finished.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
Cavenagh and his backers have been true to their word, they have stumped up fortunes.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
Thanks to several shadowy backers, three days later, according to my source inside the courthouse, on Saturday, Aug. 8, at 12:35 p.m.,
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
Another challenge for Jim and Paul was to remain in close contact with core PIH backers.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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