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Anthropic's enterprise AI unit, Ode, announced its first acquisition, purchasing Casper Studios to enhance its AI solutions for enterprise clients. Casper Studios specializes in deploying custom AI applications, expandin…
Anthropic is reportedly preparing for an IPO that could value the AI company at $180 billion, a scale comparable to SpaceX, according to an analysis of its valuation trajectory and market positioning. The company, which …
Micro1 founder and CEO Ali Ansari offered $12.5 million on August 19th to acquire Spirit Airlines' corporate data, a 25% premium over Google's winning $10 million bid in the bankruptcy auction, but the late bid faces pro…
London-based artificial intelligence startup Callosum Ltd. has raised $100 million in a seed investment led by Atomico, with participation from Plural, DCVC, and the UK Sovereign AI Fund, following a $10.25 million raise…
Callosum, a London-based AI infrastructure startup, announced a $100 million seed round on August 20 to build software that routes AI workload components across models and chip types. Atomico led the financing, with Plur…
Anthropic, founded by former OpenAI executives in 2021, has become a major AI company after a $65 billion funding round in May raised its valuation to $965 billion.
Anthropic, the AI lab behind Claude, reportedly holds 70–80 letters of intent for data center capacity, signaling a major infrastructure expansion. The company, valued at $965 billion after a May 2026 funding round, is s…
Poolside AI, an artificial intelligence model-building startup, has struck a non-exclusive licensing deal with Nvidia for $6 billion and raised $1 billion in new investment at a $12 billion pre-money valuation, according…
Anthropic is preparing to publicly file IPO paperwork as early as the end of this month, aiming to match or surpass SpaceX's record-setting $75 billion June IPO, according to Bloomberg. The AI startup, cofounded by CEO D…
AI startup Micro1 has made a $12.5 million offer for Spirit Airlines' data, exceeding Google's winning $10 million bid, according to founder and CEO Ali Ansari. The offer was sent to Spirit's legal team on Wednesday, but…
Anthropic, the San Francisco-based AI safety company, is preparing to file for an IPO as early as the end of August, following its confidential draft S-1 filing with the SEC in June and investor meetings led by its CFO. …
Anthropic, the AI lab behind the Claude model, expects its initial public offering (IPO) to rival or surpass the record $75 billion raised by SpaceX in June 2026, which valued SpaceX at $1.77 trillion. Anthropic, valued …
Anthropic PBC expects to match or beat the $86.2 billion record IPO size set by SpaceX, according to people familiar with the matter, as the AI firm prepares to file publicly as soon as the end of this month. The five-ye…
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar told employees that the company will delay its IPO until at least the fourth quarter, despite a $122 billion fundraise earlier this year and reaccelerating growth after a slack Q2, when OpenAI grew…
Monk, an AI accounts receivable platform, announced Thursday that it now manages more than $2 billion in receivables, a company-reported figure that does not represent revenue, cash collected, or funds held. Co-founder a…
Mayfield, a Silicon Valley venture firm founded in 1969, has hired Adit Singh as an infrastructure partner to focus on semiconductor, cybersecurity, and physical AI investments. Singh, previously a partner at Cota Capita…
Stripe agreed Wednesday to acquire OpenRouter, a model routing platform co-founded by Alex Atallah in 2023, in a deal that values the company at a multibillion-dollar figure. The acquisition follows a 2025 investment by …
Stripe, the payments company, has acquired OpenRouter, an AI model routing platform, betting that an AI-driven world will still require intermediaries to manage payments and access to multiple AI models. The acquisition,…
Hundreds of billions of dollars have poured into defense tech, creating a bubble that is headed for consolidation within the next 18 months, according to an analysis of market data. The U.S. defense budget is $1.5 trilli…
Anthropic confidentially submitted a draft S-1 to the SEC on June 1, 2026, toward a possible IPO with secondary-market investors pricing the company near $2 trillion, based on a $47 billion revenue run-rate and over 1,00…