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Anthropic in Talks for Massive $50B Funding Round at $900B Valuation Amid Explosive Revenue Growth
Anthropic, creator of the Claude AI assistant, is reportedly considering a $40-50 billion funding round at a valuation between $850-900 billion, with a board decision expected in May. The company's annual revenue run rat...
Microsoft Retains Royalty-Free OpenAI Access Through 2032 Despite Partnership Changes
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella confirmed that under the revised OpenAI partnership, Microsoft retains royalty-free access to OpenAI's models and IP through 2032, while no longer paying for them. Microsoft reported its AI bu...
Parallel Web Systems Raises $100M Series B at $2B Valuation for AI Agent Infrastructure
Parallel Web Systems, founded by former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, raised $100 million Series B at a $2 billion valuation led by Sequoia, just five months after its Series A. The startup provides web search and research...
Scout AI Secures $100M to Deploy Autonomous Military Systems Using Vision Language Action Models
Scout AI, a defense startup founded in 2024, raised $100 million to develop "Fury," an AI model based on Vision Language Action (VLA) technology for operating autonomous military vehicles and weapons systems. The company...
Former DeepMind Researcher Launches $5.1B Reinforcement Learning Startup to Build Self-Learning AI
Ineffable Intelligence, founded by former DeepMind researcher David Silver, has raised $1.1 billion at a $5.1 billion valuation to develop a "superlearner" AI that learns without human data using reinforcement learning....
DeepSeek Releases V4 Models With 1.6 Trillion Parameters, Approaching Frontier Performance at Lower Cost
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has released preview versions of its V4 large language models, including V4 Pro with 1.6 trillion parameters, making it the largest open-weight model available. The models reportedly close the gap...
Meta Commits to Millions of Amazon's Graviton AI CPUs in Major Cloud Deal
Meta has signed a deal with AWS to use millions of Amazon's homegrown Graviton ARM-based CPUs for AI workloads, particularly for inference and AI agent tasks. This marks a shift from GPU-dominated training workloads to C...
OpenAI Unveils GPT-5.5 with Enhanced Agentic Capabilities and Multi-Purpose 'Superapp' Vision
OpenAI released GPT-5.5, described as its smartest and most intuitive AI model yet, with significant improvements in agentic computing, coding, knowledge work, mathematics, and scientific research. The company positions...
Google Cloud Unveils Specialized TPU 8t and TPU 8i Chips for AI Training and Inference
Google Cloud announced its eighth generation tensor processing units (TPUs), splitting into two specialized chips: TPU 8t for model training and TPU 8i for inference. The new chips promise 3x faster training, 80% better...
Google Integrates Gemini AI Agent into Enterprise Chrome Browser with Auto-Browse Capabilities
Google announced it will integrate Gemini AI-powered "auto browse" agentic capabilities into Chrome for enterprise users, enabling the AI to perform tasks like booking travel, data entry, and meeting scheduling across br...