2026-10-12 — The filing says $42 billion and won't say who

Two more landlords joined the map. Applied Digital and Cipher Digital both started out mining bitcoin and now lease data-centre shells to the biggest buyers of AI compute — CoreWeave in Applied Digital's case, Amazon and Fluidstack in Cipher's, with Google standing behind Fluidstack's rent. That makes five such landlords added in four days, from a tier the atlas had no node in at all a week ago. The day's more interesting result was a limit rather than a win. Yesterday's pass learned a cheap trick: when a fact involves a listed company, ask what that company was legally obliged to publish. Run on Broadcom's enormous arrangement with Anthropic, the trick worked and then stopped halfway. Broadcom's own quarterly filing does set out the $42B it has agreed to lend against compute leases — but it calls Anthropic only "our customer", and never names it. So the money is now on the public record and the counterparty still is not.

Today in AI

• Nvidia is in talks to buy outright, or invest much more heavily in, the open-weights American lab Reflection AI, with one option an "acquihire" of its researchers that would attract less antitrust attention than a purchase — Financial Times via Techmeme
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• Robotics and "physical AI" companies have raised about $48B so far this year, much of it to pay people to perform ordinary tasks in factories, offices and homes so the robots have something to learn from — Financial Times via Techmeme
• Microsoft released Microsoft-Decision-1, a small fast model for scoring decisions rather than writing text, and said the version shipping today is built on Alibaba's open Qwen3.5 before being rebased on Microsoft's and OpenAI's own models — Command Line via Techmeme
• Bloomberg reconstructed how the Australian data-centre company Firmus lost its stock-market listing in forty-eight hours: American fund managers decided a $30B asking price was too much for a business with $51M of revenue — Bloomberg via Techmeme
• Hundreds of old video games have been decompiled and made to run in web browsers over the past few weeks, the work largely done by Claude Opus 5.5, with GTA: Vice City and Halo: Combat Evolved among the titles playing well — Kotaku via Techmeme
• A 1,700-member Slack workspace run by the US Medicare agency gives Microsoft, OpenAI and others a direct hand in shaping policy on medical-records access and health AI apps — CBS News via Techmeme

Marks moved

Two entities were added, both with live tickers rather than hand-researched valuations.

Applied Digital (APLD, Nasdaq) at $7,100M. It builds campuses and leases the shells; the tenant installs the silicon. CoreWeave holds 400 MW at Polaris Forge 1 in Ellendale, North Dakota across three roughly 15-year leases — 250 MW signed 2025-05-28 and 150 MW more on 2025-08-28 — representing about $11B of prospective lease revenue, and the first of the campus's three contracted buildings is in service (company release, FY2026 10-K). A further 200 MW at Polaris Forge 2 goes to an investment-grade hyperscaler the company declines to name, taking total leased capacity to 600 MW and prospective lease revenue to roughly $16B.

Cipher Digital (CIFR, Nasdaq) at $5,610M, named Cipher Mining until a charter amendment in February. It is the first landlord here with a hyperscaler signed directly as tenant: a 15-year lease of its Black Pearl campus to Amazon Web Services for 300 MW gross, reported at about $5.5B of contract value, with Amazon.com itself guaranteeing the rent (8-K exhibit, 2025-11-03). At Barber Lake in Texas the full 300 MW goes to Fluidstack, with Alphabet backstopping $1.73B of Fluidstack's lease obligations so the project could raise debt (8-K Exhibit 99.1, 2025-11-20). In late September it doubled the Barber Lake term to twenty years, lifting contracted revenue there from $3.8B to more than $9B on a binding commitment from an unnamed "leading AI lab".

Both valuations are hand seeds read off quoted market caps, because Monday's ticker run fires after this pass. Tuesday's commit replaces them — along with TeraWulf's and IREN's from yesterday, so four seeds resolve at once.

New edges

• coreweave —rents→ applieddigital — 400 MW at Polaris Forge 1 under three ~15-year leases, about $11B of prospective lease revenue. Verified on Applied Digital's own releases and its FY2026 10-K, 2025-08-28.
• amazon —rents→ cipher — a 15-year lease of the Black Pearl campus for 300 MW gross, roughly 216 MW of critical IT load, reported at ~$5.5B of total contract value, with Amazon.com guaranteeing base rent and operating expenses. Verified on Cipher's 8-K exhibits, 2025-11-03.
• fluidstack —rents→ cipher — the full 300 MW at Barber Lake, Texas, extended from ten years to twenty in late September and now more than $9B of contracted revenue. Verified on Cipher's 8-K exhibits, 2025-11-20.
• alphabet —commits_to→ cipher — Google backstops Fluidstack's lease obligations at Barber Lake, raised by $333M at the November expansion to a $1.73B total, which is what let the project borrow. Verified, 2025-11-20. No matching Amazon edge was added: a parent guaranteeing its own subsidiary's lease is the same relationship as the lease, not a second one.

Broadcom's two Anthropic edges were not upgraded, for the reason in the lede — its 10-Q for the quarter ended 2026-08-02 confirms the $42B convertible-note facility and the compute-capacity leases behind it, but identifies Anthropic only as "our customer". The amount is now filing-grade; the counterparty is still reporting-grade. Both filings were added to Broadcom's sources.

Still in talks

• Reflection AI — Nvidia weighing a full acquisition or a larger stake, agreement possibly within weeks, talks explicitly early (FT, 2026-10-11). No mark change, and worth being clear why: the $25B in every headline is Reflection's own March round price, which this map already carries, not a figure Nvidia has agreed to pay.
• Anthropic — the prospectus is still not public fourteen days after Reuters obtained it. Two hard dates emerged: an investor day on 14 October, and a 23 October public filing implied by the fifteen-day rule and a reported 9 November marketing start.
• Stripe / OpenRouter — 54 days after the agreement, and a post on Stripe's own economics site dated three days ago still says the deal has not closed. One aggregator says it did.
• Isomorphic Labs — early talks at $40–50B, no investors named, nothing closed. Still no post-money anywhere, which is the only thing keeping it off the map.
• Lambda — up to $4B at a $14.5B pre-money with Coatue and Blackstone reported as leads; unclosed six days on, and four outlets have already published "Lambda Raises $4B".
• DeepSeek — the second round is still open with at least RMB80B (~$12B) committed, and Reuters still has it completing in October. Nobody states a post-money, so nothing is carried.
• Modal at $750M/$15.75B with Accel leading and Baseten at ~$26B — both still being negotiated, 19 days on. Nscale (24 days, no price range), Shield AI (28 days), UniPat (32 days), Mirendil (20 days), Cohere / Aleph Alpha (26 days, three clearances outstanding) and Nvidia / Hugging Face (40 days, EU filing route still unchosen) are all unchanged.
• Agility Robotics had moved, which is why deferred entries still need checking: its Form S-4 was recorded here as confidential, and it has in fact been public on EDGAR since 2026-09-09, with an amended version since. Still no vote date; closing now guided to Q4 2026. It stays off the map until it lists with a ticker.
• GMI Cloud still discloses no valuation, so it stays off despite four would-be edges. Its own announcement calls the whole $668M a "Series B" when $445M of it is a bank facility.

Leads I could not verify

• Applied Digital's $7,100M rests on a WallStreetZen quote at a 2026-09-30 close — the weakest-dated seed this map has used, twelve days old, against stockanalysis.com's undated $7.16B. Cipher's $5,610M is better, at a dated 2026-10-09 close. Tuesday's cron settles both.
• Every filing cited above rests on the filing's URL and title appearing in search results: www.sec.gov is blocked from this container and a direct fetch of the Broadcom 10-Q returned 403. A human should read the Broadcom 10-Q, Applied Digital's 10-K and Cipher's 8-K exhibits.
• The identity of Applied Digital's 200 MW hyperscaler at Polaris Forge 2 and of the "leading AI lab" behind Cipher's $5.2B Barber Lake extension are both undisclosed. Either, if named and on the map, is an immediate edge worth chasing.
• Microsoft's, Amazon's and Alphabet's own filings were searched for their Anthropic commitments and produced nothing, as expected at their scale. Those three figures still rest only on reporting of an unfiled prospectus.
• build/logos.py is still blocked by the egress proxy; applieddigital.com and cipherdigital.com both returned 403, so both nodes ship without a logo.

Further reading: TLDR AI · The Rundown · Techmeme

build/validate.py: 209 entities, 395 relations — 0 errors, 0 warnings. Committed as Data pass 2026-10-12 (routine): Applied Digital and Cipher Digital added off the listed-landlord sweep; Broadcom's Anthropic terms traced to its own 10-Q but the counterparty is unnamed, so both edges stay reported.