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Anthropic's backers are positioning for a public valuation of $2 trillion or more, with an October IPO in view, according to the Financial Times. The company raised $65 billion in a Series H round at a $965 billion post-…
DeepSeek, a leading Chinese AI lab, has formed a new 'Harness Team' to develop AI agents that will compete with Anthropic's Claude Code, extending its focus beyond its V3 and R1 foundation models. The team, which began a…
Anthropic investors are betting on a $2 trillion valuation in a record initial public offering, fueled by rapid revenue growth for the Claude-maker, according to the Financial Times. The company aims to overcome challeng…
Legal AI start-up Legora is seeking new funding at a valuation exceeding $10 billion, just four months after being valued at $5.6 billion, according to the Financial Times. The Swedish company's rapid valuation surge ref…
Anthropic is in talks to acquire real-time AI startup Decart for about $6 billion, Bloomberg reported on August 12, citing people familiar with the matter. The negotiations have not produced a signed agreement, and the p…
Anthropic is reportedly in talks to acquire Decart for $6 billion, a move that would give the AI company a world-model technology capable of predicting physical outcomes rather than just text. The acquisition would enhan…
Anthropic is in talks to acquire Israeli AI infrastructure company Decart for $6 billion, according to a report from social media source @WhaleInsider. The acquisition aims to enhance inference efficiency without additio…
Lila Sciences, an AI-for-science company launched by Flagship Pioneering, has raised roughly $550 million, including a $200 million seed round from Flagship Pioneering with General Catalyst, March Capital, and ARK Ventur…
Periodic Labs, an AI-for-science company founded by Liam Fedus and Ekin Dogus Cubuk, launched in September 2025 with a $300M seed round backed by a16z, Felicis, DST Global, and NVIDIA's venture arm, with individual parti…
Juicebox, an AI recruiting platform founded by David Paffenholz and Ishan Gupta, raised an $80M Series B at an $850M valuation in March 2026, led by DST Global with participation from Sequoia, Coatue, Y Combinator, NFDG,…
Commure, an AI healthcare operations platform, reported over 40 million ambient appointments annually and more than $25 billion in claims processed each year, and raised $70 million in May 2026 at a $7 billion post-money…
Anthropic PBC is in talks to acquire AI startup Decart AI for about $6 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. If finalized, it would be Anthropic's largest known acquisition ahead of its anticipated IPO. …
Investor appetite for vibe-coding startups remains strong, with Swedish AI startup Lovable raising $400 million at a $13.3 billion valuation, while Cursor sold to SpaceX for $60 billion in June and Replit hit a $9 billio…
Lovable, the Stockholm-based AI software creation platform, announced a $400 million Series C funding round led by Menlo Ventures and the Scaleup Europe Fund, bringing its valuation to $13.3 billion. The company plans to…
Jeff Dean, who spent 27 years at Google, is in talks to raise $1 billion at a valuation of about $10 billion for his new AI startup, Discovery Loop, according to people familiar with the matter. The company, founded by D…
Igor Babuschkin, a co-founder of xAI, has launched River AI, a startup building an open-source personal AI stack that adapts to users, with General Catalyst as a lead investor in its Seed/Series A round. The company aims…
Nebius Group NV shares closed 34% higher after the company reported second-quarter 2026 revenue of $582.3 million, a 454% year-over-year increase that beat the LSEG consensus estimate by about $10 million. The Netherland…
The Pentagon's missile buildup is driving startups like Machina, Hadrian, and Freeform to apply AI, robotics, and automated production to aerospace and defense manufacturing, challenging traditional factory models. Machi…
Skan AI, a process intelligence company founded in 2019, raised $63 million in a Series C round co-led by Cathay Innovation and Dell Technologies Capital to expand its platform that maps enterprise workflows for AI agent…
Manifund launched a demo impact market at impact-exchange.org that retroactively values early donations to AI safety organizations, showing a 2022 $343,000 Long-Term Future Fund donation to MATS now worth over $4 million…