According to the Financial Times, major banks are marketing a $60 billion financing package connected to Broadcom and AI company Anthropic. Massive capital is flowing into the chips and compute infrastructure that power leading AI models.
Control over AI chip supply and financing determines which models get built, which products reach scale, and which publishers, platforms and creators end up renting compute from a handful of gatekeepers. This is where media power moves in 2026. Not at the chatbot layer. At the infrastructure layer. Banks don't back record financing for trendy sectors. They back it when they see a tollbooth.
The money is the message. Chips have become the tollbooth for the next media order. Control over compute decides who gets fast answers, cheap inference and global reach. Follow the capital flowing into AI infrastructure financing, not the product announcements, and you'll see where power is actually moving.
Filed to the Media desk · Yesterday