AI News & Updates AI Startups & Companies Future of AI10 Min Read Artur MarkusonJuly 11, 2026 Higgsfield in Talks for $300-500M at $5B Valuation—4× Jump in Six Months on $500M ARR A 15-month-old AI video startup just quadrupled its valuation to $5B in six months. The revenue growth is even faster—$200M to $500M ARR in…
AI News & Updates AI Startups & Companies Future of AI10 Min Read Artur MarkusonJune 27, 2026 Generalist AI Raises $400 Million at $2 Billion Valuation—NVIDIA and Bezos Back Physical AGI Startup’s 99% Success Rate Robot Models A robotics company founded in 2024 just raised $400 million by solving the problem that has stalled physical AI for decades: teaching robots…
AI News & Updates AI Startups & Companies Future of AI10 Min Read Artur MarkusonJune 11, 2026 Apollo and Blackstone Close $35 Billion Chip Financing for Anthropic—Largest Private Credit Deal Ever Funds 1+ GW Compute Expansion Off Balance Sheet Anthropic just secured $35 billion in compute capacity without adding a dollar of debt to its balance sheet. Wall Street has arrived in AI…
AI News & Updates AI Startups & Companies Future of AI10 Min Read Artur MarkusonMay 25, 2026 NextEra Energy Acquires Dominion for $67 Billion to Power AI Data Centers—Creates $250B Utility with 130 GW Construction Backlog The world’s largest utility merger wasn’t triggered by climate policy, electric vehicles, or renewable mandates. NextEra Energy…
AI News & Updates AI Startups & Companies Future of AI8 Min Read Artur MarkusonMay 25, 2026 Anthropic Raises $30 Billion at $900B Valuation—Overtakes OpenAI for First Time with $10.9B Q2 Revenue and $45B SpaceX GPU Contract The company that called itself the “responsible AI” lab now spends $1.25 billion monthly on SpaceX compute and just became more…
AI News & Updates AI Startups & Companies Future of AI10 Min Read Artur MarkusonMay 9, 2026 Google Commits $40 Billion to Anthropic in Expanded Partnership Announced May 8—$10B Immediate Plus $30B Milestone-Tied Funding Includes SpaceX and xAI Colossus 1 Compute Deal Google just bet $40 billion that Anthropic will win the frontier AI race—and did it by partnering with Elon Musk’s infrastructure. The…
AI News & Updates AI Startups & Companies Future of AI10 Min Read Artur MarkusonMay 5, 2026 Meta Acquires Assured Robot Intelligence (ARI) for Humanoid Robot Foundation Models—Co-Founders Join Superintelligence Labs Meta just made its first serious move into physical robotics, and they did it by acquiring the team that figured out how to train foundation…
AI News & Updates AI Startups & Companies Future of AI10 Min Read Artur MarkusonApril 2, 2026 OpenAI Raises $122 Billion at $852 Billion Valuation on April 1, 2026—SoftBank Co-Leads Record AI Funding Round as Company Reports $2 Billion Monthly Revenue OpenAI just raised more money in a single round than the entire GDP of Morocco, Kuwait, or Hungary. The $122 billion funding at an $852…
AI News & Updates AI Startups & Companies Future of AI11 Min Read Artur MarkusonMarch 24, 2026 Meta Locks 6.6 GW of Nuclear Power Through Vistra, TerraPower, and Oklo Deals—Largest Corporate Nuclear Commitment for AI Infrastructure Meta just committed to more nuclear capacity than Switzerland’s entire grid produces. The AI energy arms race has moved past…
AI News & Updates AI Startups & Companies Future of AI11 Min Read Artur MarkusonFebruary 26, 2026 SpaceX Acquires xAI for $250 Billion—Largest Private Acquisition in History Creates $1.25 Trillion AI-Space Infrastructure Giant Elon Musk just closed the largest private acquisition in history—and it’s not about rockets or AI. It’s about escaping…