Latest updates from the world of artificial intelligence
The AI video startup says annualized revenue hit $700 million this month, up from $20 million a year ago. DST Global led the $400 million Series B, with Goldman Sachs Alternatives and Intel Capital joining.
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Read more →Bloomberg reports the payments company has finalized a deal for the AI gateway that routes 25 trillion tokens a week across 400-plus models — three months after OpenRouter raised at a $1.3 billion valuation.
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Read more →Preliminary Q2 revenue came in above $11.5 billion — 14× a year ago — and Anthropic says it booked positive adjusted operating income for the first time since it was founded. The asterisk is on the word “adjusted”.
CNBC
Read more →The Stockholm vibe-coding company doubled its valuation in eight months on a revenue line that nearly tripled over the same stretch. At roughly 22 times forward revenue, it is one of the more defensible prices in AI coding — which says more about the comparison set than about Lovable.
TechCrunch
Read more →Anthropic is in early talks to buy Israeli startup Decart for about $6 billion — roughly 50% above the valuation Decart set three months ago. The prize is not the video models everyone knows it for. It is the chip-efficiency software underneath them.
Fortune
Read more →General Catalyst and AMP PBC led a $1.1 billion first round into Igor Babuschkin’s nine-week-old startup, with Nvidia, AMD Ventures, Y Combinator and Temasek alongside. River sells an API for reinforcement-learning fine-tuning of open-weight models — a complex run in 15 to 20 minutes, it claims, at two to four times lower cost than closed alternatives.
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Read more →Text from every Claude model released after 2 August now carries an imperceptible watermark, and generated files ship with signed C2PA metadata. Article 50 of the EU AI Act forced it; Anthropic is applying it everywhere Claude is sold. The catch: a mark proves the text passed through Claude, not that Claude wrote it — and the tools to check one are not public yet.
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Read more →Macquarie Asset Management and GIC will own Theseus Infrastructure, a new platform created to build and lease data centers to Anthropic. Anthropic is the anchor tenant, not the owner — and no capital figure, site list or timeline was disclosed.
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Read more →Riot Platforms signed a 20-year, 191-megawatt data-center lease worth $9.1 billion at its Rockdale, Texas campus. Riot did not name the tenant; Bloomberg reported it is Anthropic.
The Block
Read more →Intel proposed a $15 billion common stock offering, plus a $2.25 billion underwriters’ option, to fund capital spending on physical AI, purpose-built silicon, advanced packaging and external wafers.
Intel Newsroom
Read more →AMD has agreed to buy Toronto's Taalas, which hardcodes a model's weights into the chip itself. Its HC1 test part runs Llama 3.1 8B at roughly 17,000 tokens per second — and can never run anything else.
The Register
Read more →After 27 years, Google’s chief scientist is leaving — with Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le and Oriol Vinyals. Their startup, Discovery Loop, wants to run thousands of experiments in parallel and point the first ones at AI research itself.
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Read more →The Justice Department says OpenAI and its Statsig subsidiary preferred workers on temporary employment visas over US applicants, violating the Immigration and Nationality Act. It is the eighth settlement since the Protecting U.S. Workers Initiative relaunched in 2025 — and the penalty breakdown, the conduct period, and any remedial terms were not disclosed.
Bloomberg
Read more →The Munich Regional Court held that Suno trained on protected songs without a licence, ordering it to stop, disclose the revenue and pay damages. The reasoning is the story: the EU text-and-data-mining exception does not cover a model that memorises what it was shown.
JUVE Patent
Read more →An Italian startup says it found 50+ candidate macOS vulnerabilities in three weeks, including a privilege-escalation chain — and then couldn't file it, because Apple limits open submissions after a flood of AI-written reports describing bugs that don't exist. Apple is meanwhile running Anthropic and OpenAI models against its own code, with 184 CVEs in the latest macOS release. The same technology is jamming the front door and clearing the backlog behind it.
The Decoder
Read more →Judge Paul A. Engelmayer let Reddit's DMCA anti-circumvention claims against Perplexity and SerpApi proceed while dismissing three other claims. Section 1201 does not require Reddit to own the posts its users wrote, or to prove copying, or to defeat a fair-use defence — it only asks whether a technological barrier was bypassed. The measure at issue was Google's SearchGuard, not Reddit's own, which is the novel and shakiest part of the ruling.
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Read more →Meta and BlackRock announced a $14 billion joint venture for a 1 GW campus in El Paso, with BlackRock funds taking 80% ownership. A day earlier, Nvidia was reported to be negotiating a ~$250 billion guarantee so OpenAI could lease its Ohio campus. Same problem, opposite structures — and the difference reveals which buyer can actually borrow.
Meta
Read more →Nvidia is reportedly in talks to backstop roughly $250 billion of financing for OpenAI's 10-gigawatt Ohio data centre — plus up to $350 billion more for the chips. The guarantee is needed because OpenAI isn't profitable enough to borrow on its own terms, which makes the chip supplier the credit behind its customer's biggest purchase.
CNBC
Read more →The startup founded by the researchers who created the first Xenobots — sub-millimeter organisms built from frog stem cells and shaped by AI-run evolutionary algorithms — is exploring swarms that detect PFAS 'forever chemicals' in water by amplifying a faint signal through cell-to-cell communication, targeting aquaculture and wastewater monitoring.
The Innovator / IEEE Spectrum
Read more →At AMD's Advancing AI 2026 event, Lisa Su and Anthropic announced a strategic partnership: Anthropic will deploy up to 2 gigawatts of AMD Instinct MI450 GPUs in Helios rack-scale systems starting in early 2027, while AMD makes a strategic equity investment of up to $5 billion in Anthropic. Claude will also help optimize AMD's ROCm software stack.
AMD
Read more →Cambridge startup CuspAI raised a $450M Series B at a $2.6B valuation — up from $520M just nine months ago — to build AI that designs new materials for chips, batteries, and climate tech. It also launched an AI Materials Foundry of 45+ partners, backed by Bezos, AMD, Kleiner Perkins, and the UK government.
CuspAI
Read more →In one week the AI era came for both of Google's crown jewels. The EU ordered it to open Android to rival AI assistants and share Search data with competitors, while its flagship Gemini 3.5 Pro slipped a third time — and Alphabet shed about $200 billion in market value, roughly $425 billion in under a month.
European Commission
Read more →In an internal FY27 strategy session, Microsoft told sales staff to pitch its in-house MAI models as cheaper and more efficient than OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google — claiming up to 10× the cost efficiency, and quietly swapping rivals out of Copilot, Excel, and Outlook.
TechCrunch
Read more →Fresh reports on July 14 say Samsung's foundry has agreed to manufacture Anthropic's first in-house accelerator on its 2-nanometer process — putting the Claude maker on the same custom-silicon path as OpenAI, Google, and Amazon, though neither company has confirmed a deal.
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