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On 10 August 2026 Alphabet closed an underwritten public offering of $25 billion of US dollar-denominated senior notes off its June 2026 Form S-3 shelf (File No. 333-296395), under the February 2016 BNY Mellon indenture. Ten tranches were issued: $750m floating rate due 2028, $1.25bn 4.500% due 2028, $500m floating rate due 2029, $2.0bn 4.625% due 2029, $3.5bn 4.875% due 2031, $2.5bn 5.200% due 2033, $4.5bn 5.450% due 2036, $3.0bn 6.250% due 2046, $4.5bn 6.375% due 2056 and $2.5bn 6.500% due 2066. Coupons of 6.25-6.50% at the long end are notably high for an AA-rated issuer and show the price of raising this much duration at once. Combined with the May euro, Canadian dollar and yen offerings (roughly $21bn) and the June $49.6bn net equity and mandatory convertible raise, Alphabet has taken in well over $95bn of external capital in four months, against a $40bn at-the-market equity programme still undrawn - the clearest single measure of what frontier AI infrastructure now costs.

Apollo Global and Blackstone, partnering with Broadcom, launched an AI infrastructure platform with an initial $35B to expand Anthropic's compute capacity using Broadcom custom chips across five US sites; Google is backstopping lease payments. Materially scales Anthropic's compute ahead of its expected IPO.

Apollo Global and Blackstone, partnering with Broadcom, launched an AI infrastructure platform with an initial $35B to expand Anthropic's compute capacity using Broadcom custom chips across five US sites; Google is backstopping lease payments. Materially scales Anthropic's compute ahead of its expected IPO.

In the first week of June 2026 Alphabet did something it had never needed to do at scale: it sold equity. On 1 June it filed a new Form S-3 shelf (Reg. No. 333-296395) and entered an equity distribution agreement with Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan and Morgan Stanley to sell up to $40.0 billion of Class A and Class C stock through an at-the-market programme, at commissions of up to 0.5% of gross proceeds, with no obligation to sell. On 2 June it agreed to issue 167,500,000 Series A and 167,500,000 Series B depositary shares, each representing a 1/20th interest in a share of 6.25% mandatory convertible preferred stock with a $1,000 liquidation preference; underwriters exercised over-allotment options of 25,000,000 depositary shares per series in full on 3 June, and both offerings closed on 5 June. Alphabet's own Q2 2026 disclosure states that the Class C stock and mandatory convertible preferred offerings raised aggregate net proceeds of $49.6 billion, for general corporate purposes 'including capital expenditures to scale AI infrastructure and global compute'. For a company that generated $64.4bn of trailing-twelve-month free cash flow and carried a large net cash position, issuing equity-linked paper at a 6.25% coupon is a structural change in how the AI buildout is financed, not a routine treasury exercise.

Anthropic closed a $65 billion Series H round on 28 May 2026 at a $965 billion post-money valuation, co-led by Capital Group, Coatue and D1 Capital, to expand compute capacity for its Claude models — one of the largest private financings in history and a near-trillion-dollar AI valuation.

Anthropic closed a $65 billion Series H round on 28 May 2026 at a $965 billion post-money valuation, co-led by Capital Group, Coatue and D1 Capital, to expand compute capacity for its Claude models — one of the largest private financings in history and a near-trillion-dollar AI valuation.

On 21 May 2026, ten days after its euro and Canadian dollar offerings, Alphabet closed an underwritten public offering of JPY 576.9 billion of yen-denominated senior notes off the same Form S-3 shelf (File No. 333-286752) and February 2016 indenture. The notes comprise Y135.5bn 1.965% due 2029, Y200.5bn 2.412% due 2031, Y123.2bn 2.822% due 2033, Y64.9bn 3.189% due 2036, Y19.1bn 3.713% due 2041, Y9.3bn 4.395% due 2056 and Y24.0bn 4.599% due 2066. Together with the 11 May euro and Canadian tranches, Alphabet raised roughly $21bn of non-dollar debt inside eleven days - a deliberate spread across currency and duration markets rather than a single dollar deal, and a sign of the sheer scale of funding now being absorbed by AI infrastructure.

On 11 May 2026 Alphabet closed concurrent underwritten public offerings of EUR 9 billion of euro-denominated senior notes and CAD 9.5 billion of Canadian dollar-denominated senior notes - roughly $17bn equivalent - off its Form S-3 shelf (File No. 333-286752), issued under its February 2016 indenture with BNY Mellon Trust Company as trustee. The euro tranche spans six maturities: E1.5bn 3.200% due 2030, E1.75bn 3.450% due 2032, E1.5bn 3.625% due 2034, E1.75bn 4.100% due 2039, E1.25bn 4.500% due 2045 and E1.25bn 4.800% due 2063. The Canadian tranche spans four: C$1.5bn 3.650% due 2031, C$2.0bn 4.000% due 2033, C$2.25bn 4.350% due 2036 and C$2.75bn 5.000% due 2056. This was the opening move in an extraordinary 2026 financing campaign by a company that historically funded itself from operating cash flow, and it sits directly against capital expenditure that more than doubled year on year as Alphabet scales AI compute.

OpenAI announced the close of its latest round with $122B in committed capital at an $852B post-money valuation. Anchored by strategic partners Amazon, NVIDIA and SoftBank with continued Microsoft participation; SoftBank co-led alongside a16z, D. E. Shaw Ventures, MGX, TPG and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price, with participation from Altimeter, Appaloosa, ARK Invest, BlackRock-affiliated funds, Blackstone, Coatue, D1, Dragoneer, Fidelity, Goanna, Insight, The Paragon Group, Sands, Sequoia, Sound Ventures, Temasek, Thrive, UC Investments and Winslow. For the first time OpenAI extended participation to retail investors through bank channels, raising over $3B from individuals, and it disclosed that OpenAI will be included in several ARK Invest ETFs. It also expanded its revolving credit facility to ~$4.7B (undrawn at close) via a syndicate including JPMorgan, Citi, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo, Mizuho, RBC, SMBC, UBS, HSBC and Santander. Operating disclosures in the same release: ~$2B revenue per month, >900M ChatGPT weekly active users, >50M subscribers, enterprise >40% of revenue and on track for parity with consumer by end-2026, APIs processing >15bn tokens/minute, Codex >2M weekly users (up 5x in three months), ads pilot past $100M ARR in under six weeks. Strategy stated: a unified 'AI superapp' merging ChatGPT, Codex, browsing and agents, and a multi-vendor compute portfolio (Microsoft, Oracle, AWS, CoreWeave, Google Cloud; NVIDIA, AMD, Trainium, Cerebras, plus its own Broadcom-partnered chip).