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Nous Research raises $90M at $1.5B valuation
The open-source Hermes Agent startup is pivoting to enterprise with a new product line, backed by Nvidia and a $1.5 billion valuation.
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Flow Engineering raises $50M at $750M valuation
Valor Equity Partners and Atreides Management co-led the Series B for the San Francisco startup building AI agents for hardware design.
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Anthropic IPO prospectus warns of existential risks
The S-1 filing reveals a $518 billion infrastructure spend and $8 billion operating loss, framing safety concerns as a core valuation risk for the upcoming Nasdaq listing.
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Modal Labs closes $750M round at $15.75B valuation
Inference infrastructure startup triples its valuation in four months as demand for open-source model execution outpaces compute costs.
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AMD acquires World Labs for $8.2 billion
Fei-Fei Li joins AMD as chief scientist to integrate world model research directly into the chip roadmap, challenging Nvidia's ecosystem dominance.
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Anthropic signs $11.6 billion Akamai cloud deal
The seven-year commitment to CPU-heavy infrastructure is the largest in Akamai's history and includes a warrant structure that ties Anthropic's equity stake to future spending milestones.
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Vals raises $40M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz
The startup argues legacy benchmarks are outdated and sells proprietary, industry-specific evaluations to AI labs and federal agencies.
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Insight Partners diversifies AI bets against OpenAI and Anthropic concentration
Deven Parekh explains why the $90 billion firm rejects the 'bet the farm' strategy while competitors pile into frontier labs, citing long-horizon diversification and early-stage entry advantages.
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Cognition raises $2B at $48B valuation as AI coding market expands
Cognition, the maker of Devin, secured a $2 billion round led by a16z and Accel, pushing its valuation to $48 billion just four months after its previous raise.
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Mistral AI raises €3B in Europe's largest tech equity round
Mistral AI secured a €3 billion Series D led by Samsung, valuing the French lab at over €21 billion as it pivots toward sovereign AI infrastructure and international expansion.
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Generalist hits $3B valuation as it bets on video-learning robot brains
The robotics startup, founded by ex-DeepMind researchers, has raised an additional $200M to extend its $600M round, positioning itself against rivals like Physical Intelligence and Skild AI.
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Nscale Seeks $3.5B in Pre-IPO Financing Ahead of Potential UK Listing
The British AI infrastructure provider is raising capital through convertible notes and Nvidia-backed financing to support its massive compute commitments, including a $45 billion deal with Anthropic.
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Anthropic's $2 Trillion IPO Puts Its Experimental AI Governance Trust Under the Microscope
As Anthropic prepares for a blockbuster public debut, scrutiny intensifies on its Long-Term Benefit Trust, a non-equity holding body that controls the majority of the board and aims to balance commercial viability with long-term safety.
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Thinking Machines in talks for $1B round at $40B valuation
Mira Murati's AI lab is seeking a $1 billion raise led by Accel, valuing the company at $40 billion despite a reported $100 million annual revenue run rate.
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HiddenLayer raises $100M to secure the agentic AI stack
The Austin-based startup is expanding its runtime protection and supply chain security tools to address prompt injection and agent manipulation as enterprise AI spending accelerates.
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Palo Alto Networks Acquires AI IT Help Desk Startup Console for $500M
The cybersecurity giant is integrating Console's agentic automation into its Cortex platform to handle routine IT support tasks autonomously.
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AfterQuery hits $3.2B valuation in record time for Y Combinator
The AI training-data startup has become Y Combinator's fastest-ever unicorn, jumping from a $300M valuation to $3.2B in just five months.
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Hedge Fund Betting Big on Chip Startup Source Foundry Despite Market Tumult
Situational Awareness pours another $400M into Source Foundry, a Stanford spinout aiming to slash chip manufacturing costs.
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Lambda raises $1B in debt to buy Nvidia chips for Microsoft, signaling AI cloud's appetite for leverage
The AI cloud provider is betting on quick deployment and revenue to repay short-dated debt as it scales GPU infrastructure for a major customer.
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AI assistant startup Instinct raises $350M at $2.5B valuation, but privacy concerns linger
The 23-year-old founder's viral AI assistant has attracted huge investor interest, yet its invasive permissions and terms of use have sparked controversy.
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Nvidia's Reported $13B Hugging Face Deal Would Cement Its Grip on Open-Weight AI
The chip giant is reportedly set to acquire the dominant AI model repository, a move that could reshape the open-source AI landscape and tighten Nvidia's hold on the industry's infrastructure.
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Anthropic bets $45B on Nscale in latest compute-gobbling deal
The AI lab signs a six-year, $45 billion agreement with British infrastructure startup Nscale for Nvidia Vera Rubin-based compute, continuing its aggressive expansion.
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OpenAI loses data center chief as executive exodus deepens ahead of IPO
Chris Malone's departure from OpenAI's data center team marks the latest in a string of senior exits, raising questions about stability as the company prepares for a public listing.
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Runable Raises $21M to Help AI Agents Move Beyond Building to Growing Businesses
The Bengaluru startup wants to be the full-service AI operator for small businesses, taking agents from website generation to customer acquisition.
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Stability AI Raises $76M from Entertainment Giants to Bolster Creative AI Suite
The Stable Diffusion maker brings in $76M in Series B funding, with strategic investment from Universal, Sony, Warner, and EA.
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General Intuition in Talks to Raise at $6B Valuation as It Pushes Into Physical AI
The AI startup, spun out of Medal, is attracting major investors as it pivots its action-model approach toward robotics.
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Hugging Face reportedly in talks to be acquired for $13B
The AI model hub is reportedly weighing acquisition offers at a valuation of $13 billion or more, raising questions about the future of its open-source community.
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Relativity Networks raises $22M to bring hollow-core fiber to AI data centers
The startup's hollow-core fiber can transmit data 50% faster, potentially reshaping where AI data centers get built.
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Stripe's $7.5B OpenRouter Deal Is a Bet on Controlling AI's Money Flow
The payments giant's acquisition of the AI model router signals a strategic pivot toward managing AI expenses and embedding itself in the AI economy's infrastructure.
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Rillet raises $100M at $1B valuation, doubling down on AI-led accounting
The AI accounting startup hits unicorn status two years after stealth, with Iconiq leading a Series C that closed in under 48 hours.
