Latest updates from the world of artificial intelligence
In its first-ever stake in a movie studio, Google DeepMind is investing roughly $75 million in A24 to co-develop AI filmmaking tools with the studio — without gaining access to A24’s content library, and with Demis Hassabis pitching the work as artist-led.
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Amazon MGM has shelved “Artificial,” Luca Guadagnino’s nearly finished film about Sam Altman, months after a $50B OpenAI–AWS partnership. The starry drama is now being shopped to other studios.
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Qualcomm is reportedly in advanced talks to acquire Jim Keller’s RISC-V AI-chip startup Tenstorrent for $8–10 billion, a move that would hand the company an open-architecture data-center stack to take on Nvidia and AMD.
Tom's Hardware
Read more →A revised Anthropic privacy policy, effective July 8, lets U.S. citizens reclaim access to the banned Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by verifying citizenship with a government ID — but enterprise customers get no such path.
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Read more →On June 17 Anthropic opened a Korea office led by KiYoung Choi and named a deep roster of partners — NAVER has deployed Claude Code across its entire engineering org, while Samsung SDS, LG CNS, Nexon, Hanwha and a KAIST-led university consortium are all building on Claude.
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Read more →On the day it was set to take effect, Anthropic paused its plan to move Claude Agent SDK, claude -p, GitHub Actions and third-party agent usage off subscriptions into a metered credit pool. Usage stays on regular Pro and Max plans “for now” — a retreat shaped by developer backlash, a looming OpenAI price war and an approaching IPO.
The Decoder
Read more →SpaceX confirmed a definitive all-stock agreement on June 16 to acquire Anysphere, the maker of Cursor, at a $60 billion valuation — routed through a subsidiary so no IPO cash is touched. The deal hands Musk’s xAI a top AI-coding tool, is set to close in Q3, and carries a $4 billion antitrust break fee.
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Read more →Audited figures reported by the Financial Times show OpenAI spent about $34 billion in 2025 — roughly $19 billion on R&D alone — against $13 billion in revenue, while a one-off accounting charge pushed its net loss near $39 billion, just as the company files to go public at up to $1 trillion.
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Bengaluru’s Sarvam AI has raised $234 million at a $1.5 billion valuation, joining India’s unicorn club on the strength of foundation models built for Indian languages. IT services giant HCLTech led with $150 million, and the cash will fund Sarvam’s next frontier model and a push into agentic, coding and cybersecurity workloads.
TechCrunch
Read more →New reporting from Axios and The Information says Amazon CEO Andy Jassy personally alerted the Treasury secretary to a claimed Fable 5 jailbreak, and at least five other companies piled on — setting off the export-control order that darkened Anthropic’s flagship within hours.
Axios
Read more →More American companies are now paying for Claude than for ChatGPT, according to the Ramp AI Index — the first crossover since the generative-AI race began, capping a year in which Anthropic quadrupled its enterprise footprint.
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OpenAI is buying Ona — the German cloud startup formerly known as Gitpod — to give its Codex agents secure, persistent environments that run inside a company’s own infrastructure, a direct answer to enterprise fears about turning autonomous coders loose.
The Next Web
Read more →Three days after launch, Anthropic disabled Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for every customer to comply with a Commerce Department order that bars foreign-national access on national-security grounds. The company calls it a misunderstanding over a "minor" jailbreak and is fighting to restore access.
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Read more →Seven months after launching with $6.2B, Jeff Bezos's industrial-AI startup has raised $12 billion at a $41 billion valuation. Its mission, co-CEO Bezos insists, has 'nothing to do with robotics' — it's AI for engineering, manufacturing, and drug design.
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Anthropic brought its Code with Claude developer conference to Tokyo on June 10 — its first stop in Asia-Pacific — with three tracks on research, the Claude platform, and Claude Code, plus an Extended builder day on June 11. The move plants a flag in Japan's enterprise market before rivals do.
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The Beijing startup behind the Kimi chatbot is in talks to raise up to $2 billion at a $30 billion valuation — its third financing in half a year. In December it was worth $4.3 billion. The leap captures just how hot China's AI funding race has become.
TechNode
Read more →The London startup behind "Large Physics Models" — pretrained AI for high-fidelity engineering simulation — closed an oversubscribed $300 million Series C at a $2.4 billion valuation, led by Temasek with backing from NVIDIA, Siemens, and Applied Materials.
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Read more →On the same day it confirmed a confidential IPO filing, OpenAI published a manifesto from Sam Altman and Jakub Pachocki declaring a "third phase" built on three goals — an automated AI researcher, accelerating the economy, and a personal AGI for every person on Earth.
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Flourish, co-founded by Internet Explorer creator Thomas Reardon, raised $500 million at a $2.5 billion valuation to reverse-engineer the brain's 'core algorithm' — betting that neuroscience, not more silicon, is the way past AI's energy wall.
SiliconANGLE
Read more →The enterprise market-intelligence platform nearly doubled its valuation to $7.5 billion, crossed $600 million in annual recurring revenue, and made Accenture its first strategic channel partner — while launching an always-on research agent called SuperAnalyst.
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AI music startup Suno closed a $400 million Series D at a $5.4 billion valuation — more than double its worth seven months ago. The round arrives as the company settles with Warner Music and tries to turn a copyright fight into a licensing business.
Variety
Read more →Robotics startup Generalist AI raised $400 million in a round led by Radical Ventures, reaching a $2 billion valuation. The Nvidia- and Bezos-backed company is building general-purpose foundation models meant to serve as a shared “brain” across many different robots.
SiliconANGLE
Read more →More than 80% of the code Anthropic merges into production is now authored by Claude, up from low single digits before Claude Code launched — and leaders say some products are effectively 100% Claude-written. But Anthropic draws a careful line: this is not yet recursive self-improvement, even as it warns that moment “could come sooner than most institutions are prepared for.”
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Anthropic is adding ~150 Glasswing partners across power, water, healthcare and communications — quadrupling the program to ~200 organizations as it warns that Mythos-class cyber capability will be replicated within 6–12 months.
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Read more →Google’s parent will sell roughly $80B in stock to fund AI infrastructure as demand outstrips supply — including a $10B private placement to Berkshire Hathaway, with 2026 capex guided to $180–190B.
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Anthropic submitted a confidential draft S-1 to the SEC on June 1, days after a $65B round lifted it to a $965B valuation — setting up a three-way IPO race with OpenAI and SpaceX.
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Vast, the Beijing startup behind Tripo AI, has raised nearly $200 million at a valuation above $1 billion, making it China's newest AI unicorn. Founded by Gen-Z gamer Simon Song, Vast turns text and image prompts into production-ready 3D models for games, film and manufacturing — and already counts NetEase and Sony among its customers.
Bloomberg
Read more →Micron’s entire 2026 high-bandwidth memory output is now spoken for, locked up under binding contracts before the year is half over. Record quarterly revenue near $24 billion at roughly 75% gross margin, a ~$200 billion capacity build-out, and a stock up about 150% this year to ~$795 have turned the one-time commodity DRAM maker into something the market now treats as scarce AI infrastructure — the memory bottleneck sitting right next to every AI accelerator.
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Read more →Corgi, a full-stack, AI-native commercial insurance startup, has raised a $106 million Series B1 at a $2.6 billion valuation — double the $1.3 billion it was worth in a $160 million Series B closed just three weeks earlier. Founded in 2024 by Emily Yuan and Nico Laqua, Corgi has now raised $378 million in total and underwrites the kind of AI-related risks that legacy insurers often exclude, for customers including Deel and Artisan.
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Read more →On May 28, Visa announced a strategic investment in Replit and is integrating Visa Intelligent Commerce — plus its Trusted Agent Protocol registry — directly into the platform, so AI agents and apps vibe-coded on Replit can initiate verified card transactions over Visa’s network. Replit also opened self-serve enterprise contracts up to $200,000 and named Accenture, Slalom and Hexaware as founding Solution Partners.
TechCrunch / Replit / Visa
Read more →SpaceX has locked in the schedule for what would be the biggest IPO in history: an investor roadshow opening June 4, pricing on June 11 and a Nasdaq debut on June 12 under the ticker SPCX, targeting a valuation around $1.75 trillion and a raise of up to $75 billion. That would dwarf Saudi Aramco's $35.4 billion record — and the prospectus is also where the AI world learned SpaceX is renting Anthropic $1.25 billion of compute a month.
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Read more →Anthropic is in early-stage talks to rent Azure servers powered by Microsoft's homegrown Maia 200 accelerator, according to reports first surfaced on May 21. Nothing is signed, but if it closes, Anthropic would become the first major external customer for Microsoft's custom silicon — and would add a fourth chip platform on top of AWS Trainium, Google TPUs and Nvidia GPUs.
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The same supply chain crew that hit TanStack and rotated OpenAI’s code signing certificates is now auctioning what it says is nearly 450 internal Mistral AI repositories — training, fine-tuning, benchmarking, model delivery and inference code — with a one-week deadline before a free dump on hacker forums. Mistral confirms a breach, says its hosted services and user data were not touched.
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Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama said Friday that Japan will receive Mythos within two weeks — making it the first foreign government cleared for Anthropic's most capable vulnerability-finding AI.
Japan Today
Read more →In an Oxford lecture on May 21, Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark predicted an AI-assisted Nobel within 12 months, bipedal robots in two years, and AI-run companies generating millions inside 18 — while warning the existential risk has not gone away.
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OpenAI quietly handed Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley a draft prospectus on May 22, setting up a Q4 listing at a valuation between $852 billion and $1 trillion — even as the company lost $1.22 for every dollar it earned in Q1.
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Jensen Huang is separating Meta, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle revenue from everything else — a reporting change that lets Nvidia show off 31% growth in the half of the business not tied to the $725B Big Tech capex boom.
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The Figure.AI and Archer founder's third hard-tech company quietly raised one of the largest consumer AI Series A rounds ever, with Nvidia, AMD, Intel, and Qualcomm all on the cap table.
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A $15B-a-year compute pact and a projected $10.9B Q2 revenue mark Anthropic first profitable quarter, two years ahead of plan.
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A nine-person California jury unanimously dismissed every claim in Musk vs. OpenAI on statute-of-limitations grounds — and the judge agreed, tossing the case that had hung over OpenAI for two years.
CNN Business
Read more →Bloomberg reported on May 19 that SpaceX intends to close a $60 billion acquisition of AI coding startup Cursor approximately 30 days after its June 12 listing — with a $10 billion breakup fee on the table if the deal collapses.
Bloomberg
Read more →Andrej Karpathy started at Anthropic this week, building a new team inside the pre-training group that will use Claude itself to speed up the most expensive phase of frontier model development.
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Anthropic's first big tooling acquisition absorbs the dev-tools startup that quietly generated official SDKs for OpenAI, Google, Cloudflare, and Anthropic itself — and shuts the hosted product down.
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The Claude maker is in talks to nearly triple its February valuation as annualized revenue hits $14B and Claude Code alone clears $2.5B.
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Israeli world-model startup Decart closed a $300M Series B at a $4B valuation, with NVIDIA, Radical Ventures, and angels including Andrej Karpathy and Michael Eisner backing its push into real-time interactive video.
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PwC stands up a Claude-native finance business unit and a joint Center of Excellence with Anthropic, rolling Cowork and Claude Code to its global workforce.
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Locked out of Anthropic's limited-access Mythos cyber model, European lenders are talking with Mistral about an on-premises alternative — and OpenAI is circling the same gap.
PYMNTS
Read more →Once known for plugging into Hollywood production pipelines, Runway is now spending its $860 million of total funding on world models — systems that simulate reality from observed video — and squaring off directly against Google Veo and Genie.
TechCrunch
Read more →Backed by GV, Greycroft, Nvidia, and AMD at a $4.65B valuation, the Socher–Rocktäschel lab is betting recursive self-improvement is the fastest path to superintelligence.
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Read more →Dragoneer, Greenoaks, Sequoia, and Altimeter are co-leading a $30 billion round that nearly triples Anthropic's valuation in 90 days as annualized revenue races past $45 billion.
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Palmer Luckey's defense tech firm doubled its valuation in less than a year, capping a defense funding surge that has poured nearly $13.6 billion into the sector since January.
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OpenAI has carved out a majority-owned subsidiary, the OpenAI Deployment Company, seeded with $4 billion from a consortium led by TPG and valued at $10 billion at launch — and is acquiring London-based consultancy Tomoro to give it 150 forward-deployed engineers from day one.
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Demis Hassabis's Alphabet-backed drug discovery spinout has closed a $2.1 billion Series B led by Thrive Capital, with new money from MGX, Temasek, CapitalG and the UK Sovereign AI Fund — capital it says will push its IsoDDE platform from research curiosity to clinical pipeline.
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Read more →OpenAI and Microsoft have agreed to cap the AI lab's revenue-sharing payments at $38 billion through 2030, according to The Information — a renegotiation that could save OpenAI tens of billions of dollars and clear a long-standing obstacle to a potential public listing later this year.
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The cash-and-equity partnership that was supposed to put a Perplexity-powered chatbot inside Snapchat collapsed in Q1, and Snap is now guiding 2026 with zero contribution from the deal.
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German robotics startup Sereact closed a $110M Series B led by Headline to scale its vision-language-action models — already running in BMW, Daimler Truck, and Mercedes plants — and to push into the US warehouse market.
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Anthropic's restricted Project Glasswing gives 12 launch partners early access to Claude Mythos Preview — a frontier model that already uncovered a 27-year-old OpenBSD bug and thousands of zero-days across every major OS and browser.
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Nvidia has now committed more than $40 billion to AI equity deals this year, including $30B in OpenAI, $3.2B in Corning for optical interconnect plants, and $2.1B in data-center operator IREN.
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At its second annual developer conference, Anthropic unveiled a stack of agentic features — overnight self-improving 'dreaming' agents, scheduled Routines, multi-agent orchestration, automated Code Review and CI auto-fix — alongside doubled Claude Code rate limits.
Simon Willison's Live Blog
Read more →Anthropic's annualized revenue tripled to $30 billion in the first four months of 2026, eclipsing OpenAI's disclosed $24 billion run rate as enterprise demand for Claude Mythos and the new managed agents pulled forward years of forecast growth.
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Anthropic has secured the entire compute capacity of SpaceX's Colossus 1 data center in Memphis — over 300 megawatts and 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs — and the two companies are exploring multiple gigawatts of orbital AI compute.
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Anthropic has reportedly agreed to spend $200 billion with Google over five years on TPUs and cloud capacity, accounting for more than 40% of Google's disclosed revenue backlog and briefly pushing Alphabet past Nvidia in market value.
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SAP is buying Prior Labs and pledging more than €1B over four years to spin up a Freiburg-based frontier lab for Tabular Foundation Models, AI built for structured business data.
SAP News
Read more →Anthropic is lining up a $50B round at a roughly $900B valuation, more than doubling its February mark and leapfrogging OpenAI ahead of a possible October IPO.
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Danish pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk has signed a strategic partnership with OpenAI to deploy AI across drug discovery, clinical trials, manufacturing, and corporate operations, with full integration planned by the end of 2026.
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Read more →Private equity giant KKR has secured more than $10 billion to launch Helix Digital Infrastructure, a new full-stack AI infrastructure company led by former AWS CEO Adam Selipsky.
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Read more →OpenAI chair Bret Taylor's customer-experience agent startup banks $950M led by Tiger Global and GV, doubling its valuation in six months as it claims more than 40% of the Fortune 50.
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Read more →Meta has bought robotics-AI startup Assured Robot Intelligence, founded by Lerrel Pinto and Xiaolong Wang, folding the team into Superintelligence Labs to build foundation models for humanoid machines.
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Toronto-based Cohere is absorbing Germany’s Aleph Alpha in a $20B combination backed by a $600M check from Schwarz Group, pitched as a sovereign AI alternative to U.S. hyperscalers and blessed by both governments.
TechCrunch
Read more →A four-month-old AI lab founded by ex-DeepMind, OpenAI, and Salesforce researchers is targeting fully self-improving frontier AI — and has already pulled in oversubscribed funding from Google's venture arm and Nvidia.
The Decoder
Read more →The DeepMind veteran behind AlphaGo and AlphaZero has emerged from stealth with the largest seed round in European history, backed by Sequoia, Lightspeed, Nvidia, and Google to chase superintelligence through pure reinforcement learning.
CNBC
Read more →A new report says Anthropic is in early discussions to buy specialized inference silicon from UK-based Fractile when it ships in 2027, joining a broader push to ease its dependence on Nvidia and AWS.
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The web-search-for-agents startup founded by the former Twitter CEO closed a $100 million Series B at a $2 billion valuation just five months after its Series A — a near tripling of its price tag as Clay, Harvey, Notion, and Opendoor pile in as customers.
TechCrunch
Read more →Google split its eighth-generation TPU into a training giant and an inference workhorse, paired with a 134,000-chip Virgo Network fabric aimed squarely at agentic AI.
Accenture Ventures led a $110 million round in Netomi as the agentic AI platform expands deployments at Delta, United, Paramount Skydance, the NBA and DraftKings.
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Read more →Anthropic is fielding preemptive offers for up to $50 billion in new funding at a valuation between $850 billion and $900 billion, with a board decision expected in May.
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Read more →Rogo closed a $160M Series D led by Kleiner Perkins to scale Felix, its agentic AI for investment banking, now used by 35,000 professionals across top banks and private equity firms.
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The San Diego defense startup wants to bring drone manufacturing to the front lines, packing HP Multi Jet Fusion 3D printers into 20-foot containers that can produce a flyable airframe in under 24 hours.
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The legal-AI startup raised the largest Series A in legal tech history at a $750 million valuation, betting on a model that replaces billable hours with AI-supervised attorneys under a single brand.
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Read more →The startup behind autonomous AI software engineer Devin is negotiating a new round at a $25B valuation, up from $10.2B in September, as enterprise demand for agentic coding accelerates.
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Read more →A renegotiated agreement ends Microsoft's exclusive grip on OpenAI's products through 2032, lets OpenAI ship to AWS, and removes the legal cloud hanging over its $50 billion Amazon deal.
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Read more →Ineffable Intelligence, founded by AlphaZero architect David Silver, has closed Europe's largest-ever seed round at a $5.1B valuation to pursue a reinforcement-learning superlearner.
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Google Cloud locks in another fast-rising frontier lab with a single-digit-billion-dollar agreement covering Nvidia GB300 GPUs and reinforcement-learning workloads.
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Read more →Google commits $10 billion now and up to $30 billion more in milestone-based funding, on top of a five-gigawatt cloud compute deal — its biggest bet yet on Anthropic.
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Anthropic's implied valuation on secondary markets has reached $1 trillion — overtaking OpenAI on Forge Global — fueled by 233% revenue growth in a single quarter driven by Claude Code adoption.
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Read more →Jeff Bezos and co-CEO Vikram Bajaj are finalizing a $10 billion funding round for Project Prometheus at a $38 billion valuation — a lab training AI on real-world physics, engineering, and robotics data.
Bloomberg / The Decoder
Read more →Amazon deepens its AI bet with a new $25 billion stake in Anthropic and a $100 billion AWS cloud commitment — mirroring an identical deal it struck with OpenAI just two months prior.
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Elon Musk merged SpaceX and xAI in February 2026, creating a $1.25-trillion combined entity with plans to build orbital data centers powered by Starlink satellite infrastructure — the largest acquisition in corporate history.
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OpenAI has closed the largest private financing deal in Silicon Valley history, raising $122 billion at an $852 billion valuation anchored by Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank as the company prepares for its anticipated IPO.
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OpenAI has completed the largest private funding round in history, raising $122 billion at an $852 billion valuation, with Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank among the lead investors.
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ElevenLabs closes a funding round and launches an automatic dubbing tool supporting 29 languages.
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Apple acquires Cursor, the AI-powered IDE, aiming to integrate deep AI capabilities into Xcode and its developer tools.
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