The AI Boom's Bill Comes Due: CoreWeave's Bonds and Shares Slide as Borrowing Costs BiteCoreWeave shares fell 4.1 percent in Friday premarket trading and are down more than 15 percent this week, while the yield on its 2031 bonds briefly topped 16 percent and default insurance hit records. With about $50 billion in debt, the Nvidia-backed neocloud has become the market's test case for financing the AI build-out.2026-10-16
Samsung Projects Record $80 Billion Q3 Profit on the AI Memory BoomSamsung Electronics projected Thursday that its July–September operating profit reached 107.4 trillion won (~$80.17 billion), up 783% from a year earlier — the first time any South Korean company has cleared 100 trillion won in quarterly profit, driven by the AI memory boom.2026-10-12