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Anthropic Eyes $900B Valuation in $50B Round That Would Top OpenAI
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Anthropic Eyes $900B Valuation in $50B Round That Would Top OpenAI

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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Rogo Raises $160M to Build the AI Operating System for Wall Street
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Rogo Raises $160M to Build the AI Operating System for Wall Street

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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Firestorm Labs Raises $82M to Put 3D-Printed Drone Factories Inside Shipping Containers
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Firestorm Labs Raises $82M to Put 3D-Printed Drone Factories Inside Shipping Containers

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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Manifest Lands Record $60M Series A to Build the First AI-Native Law Firm
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Manifest Lands Record $60M Series A to Build the First AI-Native Law Firm

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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Devin Maker Cognition in Talks to More Than Double Valuation to $25 Billion
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Devin Maker Cognition in Talks to More Than Double Valuation to $25 Billion

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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OpenAI and Microsoft Settle Cloud Dispute, Clearing the Way for $50B Amazon Pact
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OpenAI and Microsoft Settle Cloud Dispute, Clearing the Way for $50B Amazon Pact

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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Ex-DeepMind Star David Silver Raises Record $1.1B Seed to Build AI That Learns Without Human Data
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Ex-DeepMind Star David Silver Raises Record $1.1B Seed to Build AI That Learns Without Human Data

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 Deepens Ties With Mira Murati's Thinking Machines in New Multi-Billion-Dollar Deal
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Google Deepens Ties With Mira Murati's Thinking Machines in New Multi-Billion-Dollar Deal

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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Google to Invest Up to $40 Billion in Anthropic, Doubling Down on Claude
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Google to Invest Up to $40 Billion in Anthropic, Doubling Down on Claude

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 Hits $1 Trillion Implied Valuation on Secondary Markets, Surpassing OpenAI
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Anthropic Hits $1 Trillion Implied Valuation on Secondary Markets, Surpassing OpenAI

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 Closes In on $10 Billion for Project Prometheus, His Physical AI Lab
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Jeff Bezos Closes In on $10 Billion for Project Prometheus, His Physical AI Lab

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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Amazon Invests Up to $25 Billion in Anthropic in Landmark $100 Billion AWS Partnership
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Amazon Invests Up to $25 Billion in Anthropic in Landmark $100 Billion AWS Partnership

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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SpaceX Acquires xAI in History's Largest Merger at $1.25 Trillion
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SpaceX Acquires xAI in History's Largest Merger at $1.25 Trillion

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 Closes $122 Billion Round at $852 Billion Valuation, Setting Silicon Valley Record
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OpenAI Closes $122 Billion Round at $852 Billion Valuation, Setting Silicon Valley Record

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 Closes Historic $122 Billion Funding Round at $852 Billion Valuation
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OpenAI Closes Historic $122 Billion Funding Round at $852 Billion Valuation

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 Raises $80M and Launches Dubbing Studio
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ElevenLabs Raises $80M and Launches Dubbing Studio

ElevenLabs closes a funding round and launches an automatic dubbing tool supporting 29 languages.

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Apple Acquires Cursor for $2 Billion
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Apple Acquires Cursor for $2 Billion

Apple acquires Cursor, the AI-powered IDE, aiming to integrate deep AI capabilities into Xcode and its developer tools.

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