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SpaceX reported a 92% surge in revenue to $7.8 billion for the April-June quarter, beating analyst expectations of $6.93 billion, in its first earnings release since going public. The company posted a net loss of $541 mi…
Google has committed $200 billion to Anthropic through a rolling investment structure that ties capital deployment to model development milestones, user growth, and compute procurement, with Google's finance team embeddi…
Anthropic has secured a $10 billion compute deal with Volta, granting access to Volta's GPU cloud infrastructure for training and deploying next-generation AI models. The multi-year commitment underscores the soaring cos…
Decade, a Brazilian AI-assisted wealth advisory founded by former Nubank executives including former CTO Vitor Olivier, emerged from stealth in May 2026 after raising an $85 million seed round, which it claims is the lar…
Anthropic has signed a $10 billion deal with AI cloud startup Volta to provide cloud compute over six years, with Bitdeer developing a data center in Norway that will deliver 133 megawatts powered by Nvidia's Vera Rubin …
Founder status markers in the tech industry have evolved from fundraising metrics to revenue-per-employee and tender offers, reflecting a shift towards efficiency and liquidity, according to a LessWrong post. The post ar…
EdotEnv, a Y Combinator Summer 2026 company founded by Jay Azhang and Matthew Siper, is taking sign-ups for reinforcement learning environments built from financial-market data, aimed at training agents for quantitative …
Amazon's $13 billion investment in Anthropic is now worth approximately $190 billion, a roughly 14x increase, following Anthropic's Series H funding round in May 2026 that valued the AI safety company at $965 billion. Am…
Volta Infra Holdings emerged from stealth on August 4, 2026, announcing a $300 million raise co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Altimeter Capital at a $2.4 billion post-money valuation, alongside a $10 billion, six-year p…
Audit Ready AI, a new platform for AI startups and B2B teams, offers a SOC 2 readiness assessment that connects to GitHub to auto-detect compliance controls and generate a readiness score, aiming to speed up security rev…
Volta Infra, a seven-month-old startup, announced a $10 billion contract to supply cloud computing for an unnamed AI company and a $2.4 billion valuation, partnering with Bitdeer Technologies to deliver services across E…
Blackstone has opened early talks with investors on a second mega debt package of at least $36 billion to finance Anthropic's use of Google's custom TPU chips, according to Bloomberg. The deal follows a $35 billion priva…
Arcade AI, a San Francisco-based startup building an MCP runtime for AI agents, is hiring an AI Engineer for its Tools team, with the role based on-site in San Francisco. The company, backed by a Series A led by SYN Vent…
HappyRobot closed a $150 million Series C at a $1.2 billion post-money valuation, led by Prysm Capital and co-led by Eurazeo, making it FreightTech's newest unicorn. The company has raised roughly $200 million across thr…
In a replay of the Second Quarter Review, Aswath Damodaran, Scott Galloway, and Ed Elson discussed the potential for an AI correction, citing a lack of transparency in Big Tech's business models and the hype driving cros…
Vasco grew an AI SaaS app from $0 to $70,000 per month in two years by posting one YouTube video per day, with no paid ads, according to an episode of Starter Story hosted by Pat Walls. Vasco attributes his success to th…
HappyRobot Inc., a San Francisco-based AI startup, raised $150 million in a Series C round led by Prysm Capital and co-led by Eurazeo, bringing its post-money valuation to $1.2 billion. The company, which automates enter…
Amazon's $53.4 billion second-quarter pretax gain, primarily from its Anthropic investments, was nearly twice its $27.5 billion operating income, while Alphabet's $99.0 billion equity-security gain increased net income b…
Anthropic has signed a six-year, $10 billion computing deal with Volta Infra Holdings, a cloud startup founded in early 2026, for 133 megawatts of capacity at a hydropower-fed data center in Tydal, Norway, using Nvidia's…
Citadel CEO Ken Griffin acquired Situational Awareness, the AI hedge fund founded by former OpenAI employee Leopold Aschenbrenner, after the fund suffered significant losses. The Wall Street Journal's Gregory Zuckerman d…