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Lambda Adds $1B in Short-Dated Debt for Nvidia Chips Bound for Microsoft

The borrowing adds another customer-specific hardware deployment to Lambda’s balance sheet, while its reported equity plans remain unfinished. Lambda has reportedly raised $1 billion in private, short-dated debt to buy Nvidia AI chips it intends to lease to Microsoft, adding another large borrowing to its AI-cloud expansion. The latest $1 billion debt is intended to buy Nvidia AI chips for lease to Microsoft.

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IndiGo Ventures Joins Sarvam’s $1.5B Series B, Linking Airline Work to Ownership

The airline’s venture arm is backing a supplier it plans to use for customer service, staff productivity and operations—where dependable deployment will be the real test. IndiGo Ventures has joined Sarvam AI’s Series B, turning an airline technology collaboration into an ownership relationship. The deal ties IndiGo to a Bengaluru startup building sovereign AI systems around Indian languages and localized data needs.

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Rillet Raises $100 Million to Challenge Accounting’s Legacy Stack

The company is betting that finance teams will replace systems built around human data entry with agent-led workflows—but the controls around sensitive financial work remain central to that pitch. Rillet has raised a $100 million Series C at a $1 billion valuation, backing its push to make AI agents a working layer inside corporate accounting. The round’s investor roster Lead investor: ICONIQ.

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