Latest updates from the world of artificial intelligence
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.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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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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