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1OpenAI expects to burn $280bn by 2030Money88Financial Times Technology
2Big Tech uses guarantees to keep $300bn AI exposure off balance sheetsRisingMoney78Financial Times Technology
3Akamai shares jump more than 20% on $11.6B Anthropic computing dealMoney82SiliconAngle
4Investors weigh whether Anthropic can sustain surging revenues post-IPORisingMoney72Financial Times Technology
5Oracle feels the forceMoney78Financial Times Technology
6SoftBank raises $11bn in record junk bond offering to fund OpenAI betMoney78Financial Times Technology
7Data center builder Nscale files for IPO after multibillion-dollar Anthropic dealMoney78SiliconAngle
8Following OpenAI, Anthropic is also reportedly postponing its IPORisingMoney75The Decoder
9Anthropic releases cheaper AI model ahead of IPOMoney75Financial Times Technology
10Lex in depth: Anthropic at $2tn isn’t far-fetchedRisingMoney68Financial Times Technology
11Island Announces $400M Series F, Bringing Valuation to $6.4BMoney72EnterpriseAI
12Goldman reaped more than $200mn in fees from hedge fund Situational AwarenessMoney72Financial Times Technology
13Databricks buys Row Zero and is scouting for more startups to acquireMoney72TechCrunch Startups
14AI spend will jump 49.5% in 2026, says GartnerMoney72CIO
15The clock’s ticking on the AI boomMoney72Financial Times Technology
16Snorkel AI Raises $350M to Scale the Data Factory for Frontier AIMoney72EnterpriseAI
17VC firm Bessemer now has another $5.75B to invest in (what else?) AIMoney72TechCrunch Venture
18Crusoe Is on Track for $2 Billion in Revenue as the Data Center Backlash BuildsMoney72Newcomer (VC)
19Ema raises $77M in funding to deploy AI employees across enterprise HR, IT and finance departmentsMoney72SiliconAngle
20Nvidia-backed Nscale buried ByteDance deal in push to $35bn IPOMoney72Financial Times Technology
21Machine vision company Cognex buys Intel robotics spinoff RealSense for $600MMoney72SiliconAngle
22Web scraping startup Firecrawl closes $75M investmentMoney72SiliconAngle
23Heidi Health nabs $340M to deepen adoption of AI agents within health systems globallyMoney72SiliconAngle
24Nscale’s IPO will test Wall Street’s appetite for concentrated AI bets once againMoney72TechCrunch AI
25SoftBank’s $50bn data centre group slows IPOMoney72Financial Times Technology
26‘No government or enterprise should have to choose between capable AI and control over their technology’: Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez shares new details on Aleph Alpha mergerMoney72ITPro
27Inside Temporal’s journey to a $12.55B valuation, and its bet on building a backbone for AI agentsMoney72GeekWire
28Manus seeks $4B valuation in new $500M fundraise as it resumes independent opsMoney72TechCrunch AI
29AI drug discovery startup Basecamp Research raises $140MMoney68SiliconAngle
30Enveda secures $311M to bring more nature-derived AI drugs into clinical trialsMoney68TechCrunch AI
31Cyera raises $400M more amid AI agent security pushMoney68SiliconAngle
32European neocloud Verda raises $189M to build the AI infrastructure of tomorrowMoney68SiliconAngle
33Nutanix Acquires Ryax Technologies to Help Customers Accelerate Agentic AI InitiativesMoney65EnterpriseAI
34War in the Middle East & Rising Interest Rates Threaten the Funding for AI Build-OutMoney65Newcomer (VC)
35Kontext raises $4M to control what AI agents are allowed to do inside businessesMoney62SiliconAngle
36Pat Gelsinger-backed startup PicoJool raises $27.5M to boost bandwidth for AI clustersMoney62SiliconAngle
37Groundcover picks up Kubernetes optimization startup Wand in its first acquisitionMoney62SiliconAngle
3820 minutes with the CEO of ElevenLabs, now reportedly valued at $22BMoney62TechCrunch AI
39Exclusive: From Booking Calls To Late Check-Ins, Dextr AI Raises $6.7M For Hotel AI AgentsMoney62Crunchbase News
40Ekai raises $1.7M to give enterprise AI agents verified business contextMoney62SiliconAngle
41Former Amazon and Opendoor leaders raise $3M to give every key business metric its own AI agentMoney62GeekWire
42Jumbo-Sized Series A Rounds Are On The RiseMoney62Crunchbase News
43With $35M in early funding, Baselayer is building the trust layer for the agentic economyMoney62SiliconAngle
44Nexstrom bags $12M to help chipmakers replace silicon with more efficient semiconductor wafersMoney62SiliconAngle
45Exclusive: Can You Trust That AI Agent? Baselayer Raises $35M To Help Companies DecideMoney62Crunchbase News
46Ex-Zillow VP’s startup Truelist acquired by Mainstay in $18M expansion of real estate AIMoney62GeekWire
47Anthropic moves fast on AI safety concerns with Accenture “embedded evaluator” partnershipMoney62ITPro
48Mozilla Data Collective Raises $5M to Scale a More Equitable Data Ecosystem for AIMoney62EnterpriseAI
49A startup that builds other startups raised $100M, and is all-in on physical AIMoney62TechCrunch AI
50Family offices are clamoring for AI investmentsMoney58TechCrunch Venture
51The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Large Rounds For AI Infrastructure, Space Tech And Investment Management LeadMoney55Crunchbase News
52Seattle startups DexCare and Mila Health combine to expand AI patient schedulingMoney52GeekWire