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Business veteran Bruce Rockowitz sees artificial intelligence as a strategic growth engine for his wellness, dining, and media businesses, including The Pure Group, food-and-beverage operators, and magazine publishers. H…
TeraWulf, a former Bitcoin mining company, signed a 20-year lease with AI lab Anthropic for a data center campus in Kentucky, projected to generate $19 billion in revenue. The deal, requiring $3.2-4 billion in capital ex…
Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX are poised to launch IPOs that could collectively surpass the total exit value of every US venture-backed IPO since 2000, according to PitchBook. SpaceX alone targets a $75 billion raise at …
TeraWulf plans to raise approximately $3.5 billion in debt to build the Justified Data Campus in Kentucky, a massive AI computing hub with potential capacity exceeding 1 GW. The company signed a 20-year lease with Anthro…
AI researcher Rishabh Agarwal rejected a reported Meta offer exceeding $1 million per year to cofound Periodic Labs, a startup backed by NVIDIA and Jeff Bezos, according to multiple Indian news outlets. Agarwal publicly …
SpaceXAI released a new AI model, while major tech companies reshape the benchmark conversation amid a decline in AI confidence. London sees increased AI investment, with Mistral opening an office and Rubrik investing $5…
Mercor, an AI data startup founded by three college dropouts, reached $2 billion in annualized revenue in June 2025, doubling from $1 billion four months earlier. The company pays doctors, lawyers, and engineers to train…
Ollama raised $65 million in Series B funding led by Theory Ventures, bringing its total funding to $88 million, as the open-model runner now serves nearly 9 million monthly developers. The company plans to use the funds…
Lithuanian data infrastructure firm Oxylabs raised $130 million from Warburg Pincus at a $3.6 billion valuation, its first outside investment since 2015. The company, which provides web data gathering tools for AI agents…
Tencent released Hy3, a 295-billion-parameter open-weights AI model, at roughly six cents per million input tokens, outperforming GLM-5.1 in blind expert reviews. The model features 21 billion active parameters, 256K con…
A leaked Treasury Department draft report warns that the AI economy risks a dotcom-style bubble, as U.S. AI labs spend hundreds of billions on large language models while investors grow skeptical. Meanwhile, enterprises …
Mark Zuckerberg returned to X after three years to announce Meta's new coding AI model, Muse Spark 1.1, as the company pivots heavily toward artificial intelligence with projected expenditures of $125 billion to $145 bil…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman pushed back on 'inaccuracies' about a proposed deal to give the US government a 5% equity stake worth an estimated $42.6 billion, clarifying terms during a CNBC appearance. The proposal, first pitch…
Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX are poised to generate more value from their IPOs than all U.S. venture-backed exits since 2000, according to the Q2 2026 NVCA-Pitchbook Venture Monitor report. SpaceX went public at a $1.77…
Mercor, a startup that supplies domain experts to train AI models, is in talks for a $20 billion valuation, doubling its worth from eight months ago. The company, founded in 2022 by three college dropouts, projects annua…
Anthropic is following the same playbook as AWS by building first-party versions of successful products built on its platform, exemplified by the launch of Claude Design, a direct competitor to Figma. The pattern mirrors…
NVIDIA announced a new financing model combining revenue sharing with credit support to help AI cloud providers build GPU infrastructure for startups and enterprises. The initiative, detailed in a July 1 blog post by CFO…
NVIDIA launched a program offering revenue sharing and credit support to help AI cloud providers procure its infrastructure, naming Sharon AI and Firmus Technologies as inaugural partners. Sharon AI will deploy up to 40,…
Ollama raised $65 million in Series B funding led by Theory Ventures, bringing its total funding to $88 million, as the open-source AI infrastructure company reported nearly 8.9 million monthly developers and 85% Fortune…
Europe still has a chance to achieve sovereign AI, but it must move beyond treating AI as a procurement and regulation problem and instead build a complete stack of compute, capital, models, applications, procurement, di…