Evening Scan

The AI financing carousel kept spinning today — Broadcom's debt raise for chip deals got bigger, not smaller, and Anthropic signaled it wants to out-IPO SpaceX. Nevada just turned Las Vegas into the country's biggest robotaxi experiment.

Broadcom seeking up to $100B in debt for AI chip financing

Earlier reports pegged the raise at $60B+ — the number keeps climbing, and Anthropic's among the beneficiaries. (SiliconANGLE/Bloomberg)

Anthropic wants an IPO as big as SpaceX's — or bigger (paywall)

Filing could land by end of month; the ambition alone tells you where AI valuations sit right now. (Bloomberg)

Nevada green-lights thousands of robotaxis for Vegas

Tesla gets up to 5,000 permits, Waymo and Uber 1,000 each — Vegas just became the robotaxi capital by regulatory fiat. (TechCrunch)

Charter officially closes its $34.5B Cox acquisition

Cable consolidation's endgame, finalized more than a year after it was announced. (The Hollywood Reporter)

"No evidence its CEO or senior management knew" — Super Micro's independent probe clears leadership in the alleged $2.5B Nvidia chip smuggling scheme. *(Fortune)