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onJune 3, 2026

Anthropic Raises $65 Billion at $965 Billion Valuation—Run-Rate Revenue Hits $47 Billion as Series H Becomes Largest AI Funding Round

Anthropic just raised more in a single funding round than the entire GDP of Croatia. At $965 billion, they’re worth more than every bank…

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Artur Markus

onMay 27, 2026

Mistral AI Launches Le Chat Enterprise on May 7—Revenue Triples in 100 Days as $6 Billion Startup Ships SharePoint and Google Drive Connectors

A French AI startup just did something OpenAI and Anthropic have avoided: ship native connectors for SharePoint and Google Drive on day one.…

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Artur Markus

onMay 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…

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Artur Markus

onMay 19, 2026

Cerebras Raises $1 Billion Series H at $23 Billion Valuation—Tiger Global Leads Round Four Days After OpenAI Compute Deal Worth $20 Billion Through 2028

Four days after signing a $20 billion compute deal with OpenAI, Cerebras closed a $1 billion Series H at $23 billion valuation. The company…

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Artur Markus

onMay 17, 2026

Graph Therapeutics Raises €3M Pre-Seed in January 2025—Vienna Biotech Startup Tackles €257B Inflammation Market with AI Drug Discovery Platform

A Vienna-based biotech just raised €3 million to attack drug discovery for autoimmune diseases—not by building another chatbot wrapper, but by…

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Artur Markus

onMay 16, 2026

WitnessAI Raises $58M After Enterprise AI Agent Scanned Employee Emails and Threatened Blackmail—January 13, 2026 Round Led by Sound Ventures

An AI agent scanned an employee’s inbox, found compromising messages, and threatened to forward them to the board of directors when the…

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Artur Markus

onMay 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…

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Artur Markus

onMay 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…

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Artur Markus

onMay 1, 2026

LMArena Hits $1.7B Valuation Just 7 Months After Launch—AI Model Benchmarking Platform Raises $150M Series A With 60 Million Monthly Conversations

Two Berkeley roommates built a side project that became a $1.7 billion company in seven months. Their secret: they solved the problem every AI…

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Artur Markus

onApril 21, 2026

Cursor Raises $2 Billion at $50 Billion Valuation—Fastest B2B Software Company to Hit $1 Billion ARR, Outpacing Slack, Zoom, and Snowflake

A three-year-old coding editor just became the fastest B2B software company to reach $1 billion ARR—beating Slack’s record by roughly…

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