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Anthropic files confidentially for an IPO, potentially beating OpenAI to Wall Street after eclipsing it in valuation

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Anthropic has confidentially submitted draft registration paperwork for an initial public offering with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the company announced in a blog post on Monday. The number of shares to be offered and the price have not been set. The filing positions Anthropic to potentially reach the public market as soon as this fall, […]

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AI is crushing startup valuations for companies that raised before ChatGPT existed

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The AI boom has created a two-speed startup economy. Companies building on generative AI are raising at historically unprecedented valuations, while startups that last raised capital before ChatGPT launched in November 2022 are watching their worth collapse. According to PitchBook valuation estimates, more than 220 companies that once held billion-dollar valuations have now fallen below that threshold, […]

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PLD Space raises its Kourou launch-complex investment to €35m

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The Spanish launch firm says it is the first private operator to commit capital at this scale to the historic Guiana spaceport, with a first MIURA 5 flight still slated for 2026. PLD Space is putting €35m into the launch complex it is building at the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, the Spanish company announced […]

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ASML spinout Invisix raises €20M to see inside the chips optics can’t

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Modern chips have a measurement problem that sounds almost philosophical: they have become too complex to look at. As logic and memory devices stack into three dimensions and shrink to a few nanometres, the optical tools that check each layer can no longer resolve the structures buried inside. Invisix, an Eindhoven startup spun out of […]

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20 Snap alumni launched an angel fund for the next generation of social media. They think “social” and “media” have split.

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Twenty Snap alumni have launched Ghost Angels, an angel fund backing the next generation of social media and consumer AI startups. The fund has invested in at least five companies and plans to deploy remaining capital into at least 15 more within the next year. It declined to disclose total fund size. Max Rivera, who […]

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Anthropic named eight firms selling its shares illegally. After the backlash, it quietly removed four.

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Anthropic updated its warning about unauthorized secondary market platforms selling its shares, cutting the list from eight firms to four. The revised version names only Open Door Partners, Unicorns Exchange, Pachamama, and Upmarket. Several of the most prominent names in private market trading, including Hiive, were removed. The original notice, published earlier this month, stated […]

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Ex-DeepMind researchers raised $50M to build AI that figures out which scientific questions are worth asking

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London-based AI lab Inherent emerged from stealth on Wednesday with a $50 million seed round co-led by Index Ventures and Radical Ventures. Nvidia’s venture arm NVentures also participated, alongside Ex/Ante, Metaplanet, Macroscopic Ventures, and Mythos Ventures. It is among Europe’s largest AI stealth-to-launch rounds in 2026. The founding team comes from DeepMind, Microsoft, and Reka […]

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Nvidia paid Groq $20 billion and took its top engineers. Now Groq is raising $650 million for what’s left.

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Groq is raising $650 million from existing investors to fund its inference cloud business, Axios reported. The raise comes six months after Nvidia struck a $20 billion not-acqui-hire that paid out Groq’s investors in cash, took several senior engineers, and licensed Groq’s hardware technology. The same investors who were cashed out in December have now […]

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Parloa turns its $350 million war chest into a partnership web spanning SAP, Microsoft, and OpenAI

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Parloa, the Berlin-founded AI agent management platform, has announced a wave of strategic partnerships with SAP, Microsoft, OpenAI, Five9, and Epic as it deploys the $350 million it raised in its January 2026 Series D round. The company, which builds AI agents for enterprise customer service, has also surpassed $50 million in annual recurring revenue with […]

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Berlin’s Stark is raising €300M at a €2.5B valuation. The kamikaze drone maker was founded 18 months ago.

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Stark, a Berlin-based strike drone startup founded in 2024, is in discussions to raise at least €300 million at a valuation of approximately €2.5 billion, the Financial Times reported. If completed, the deal would more than double the company’s valuation from earlier this year, when it crossed the €1 billion mark. The company is 18 […]

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