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Anthropic has signed a deal with AMD worth tens of billions of dollars for up to 2 gigawatts of AMD's Instinct MI450 AI chips, with deployment starting in the first half of 2027, and AMD will invest up to $5 billion in A…
Staan has launched the first European Search API, offering web search, news, and AI-powered answer features with pricing up to 9 times cheaper than competitors like Google, Bing, and Brave. The API provides structured JS…
Galaxy Digital Inc. plans to raise about $3.5 billion from a debut junk-bond sale to fund a data center tied to CoreWeave Inc., extending AI financing into riskier corners of the US credit market. Proceeds will finance t…
California Attorney General Rob Bonta has established a Memorandum of Understanding with OpenAI that gives the state oversight over the AI company's transition from a nonprofit to a publicly traded company, with a valuat…
Atlanta-based QumulusAI announced a two-year, take-or-pay deal worth more than $18 million to supply Nvidia Blackwell B300 GPU nodes to a global GPU cloud marketplace, making QumulusAI one of its primary Blackwell infras…
Menlo Ventures partner Matt Murphy says AI startups must focus on building platforms, not just models, citing Anthropic's leap to a $47 billion revenue run rate by May from $9 billion in 2025 as unprecedented growth in h…
Alpha School, a K-8 private school opening this fall in Miami Beach, charges $65,000 a year for a model that replaces traditional classroom teachers with AI tutors for two hours of core academic instruction each morning,…
Rafael Quintanilla, a former Accel investor, raised $38 million for Arrakis, an industrial AI agent startup emerging from stealth on July 22. The funding includes a $30 million Series A led by Blossom Capital and Accel, …
Rob Versaw, a Forbes Councils member, argues that go-to-market strategy is the most undervalued risk in AI product development, noting that while teams have become skilled at building AI products, they have not improved …
Anthropic is testing a new feature called Managed Projects within its Claude AI platform, designed to give users dedicated cloud environments for organizing and running multi-step workflows. The feature, still in early t…
AMD will invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic as part of a computing power deal, marking the latest infrastructure agreement for the AI startup to boost its computing capacity.
OpenAI is accelerating its Stargate AI infrastructure initiative, targeting $500 billion in investment over four years, with a $16 billion campus groundbreaking in Saline Township, Michigan in June 2026. The company clos…
OpenAI and Anthropic set records for federal lobbying in the second quarter of 2026, spending a combined $3.17 million, up 23% from the first quarter, according to CNBC. Anthropic spent $1.97 million, surpassing Nvidia a…
Bloomsbury, the publisher of Harry Potter, will receive millions of dollars as a beneficiary of a $1.5bn copyright settlement between AI startup Anthropic and thousands of authors over the use of their protected work to …
San Francisco startup Verse, founded in 2022 by Seyed Madaeni and Matt Penfold, has raised over $80 million including a $54 million Series B in June 2026 to scale its Aria software platform that automates energy load bal…
StrongestLayer raised $4.1 million in additional seed funding, bringing its total seed round to $9.3 million, the San Francisco email security startup announced on July 22. The round was led by Inovia Capital with partic…
Needham & Company reaffirmed its Buy rating on Super Micro Computer with a $46 price target, citing a record $60 billion order backlog driven by surging AI server demand and sharply improved margin guidance. The analyst …
AMD is set to invest up to $5bn in AI group Anthropic, which has committed to buying tens of billions of dollars of AMD's latest AI server chips, according to the Financial Times.
OpenAI has launched 'Presence,' a consulting service that charges enterprises high fees to deploy AI agents on-site, as the company seeks new revenue streams amid commoditizing AI models. The service offers hands-on supp…
Arrakis, a London and Paris-based startup, has raised $38 million in venture funding to build an AI "operating system" for industrial sectors including aerospace, energy, logistics, and manufacturing. Accel led the $7.5 …