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Hadrian’s reported $7.5bn round and the physical-AI rush

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Bloomberg says defense-factory startup Hadrian is in talks to raise as much as $1bn at a $7.5bn valuation. Hadrian calls that “inaccurate”. Either way, the rumour shows how hot physical AI and US reindustrialisation have become. Here is a number, and a denial, in the same breath. Hadrian Automation has discussed a new funding round […]

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Main Capital raised the Netherlands’ biggest-ever fund on boring software

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While public markets panic that AI will gut enterprise software, a quiet Dutch firm just raised €5.25bn on the opposite bet. Main Capital’s pitch: boring, essential software is exactly where the next decade of value sits. Charly Zwemstra has spent 23 years buying software that almost nobody finds exciting. Think hospital appointment systems, municipal tax […]

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Menlo Ventures raises $3bn on the back of one Anthropic bet

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Menlo Ventures has raised $3bn, the biggest haul in its 50-year history. It is funded, in effect, by a single bet on Anthropic that is now worth about $14bn. Most venture funds are sold on a promise. Menlo Ventures’ new $3bn is sold on a receipt. The firm announced the raise on Tuesday, its largest […]

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Walmart buys Vibe.co for $1.4bn to chase Amazon in ads

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Walmart is paying a reported $1.4bn for a connected-TV ad startup worth $410m nine months ago. The price tells you how far retailers will now go to catch Amazon in advertising. Walmart has agreed to buy Vibe.co, a connected-TV advertising platform. Two reports peg the deal at $1.4bn. It would be the retailer’s biggest acquisition […]

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Zhipu weighs multibillion-dollar raise after 2,000% surge

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A 2,000% rally has handed Beijing’s Zhipu a rare fundraising window, and Anthropic’s vanished Fable 5 widened it. The harder question is whether a deeply unprofitable lab can turn the moment into a durable business. Six months ago, Zhipu was a Chinese artificial-intelligence lab fresh off a $558M Hong Kong listing. Its shares priced at […]

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Nvidia built the AI engine. Alphabet is building the car, the road, and the toll booth. The market is pricing accordingly.

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On Thursday, Alphabet’s share price rose nearly 10 per cent after the company reported first-quarter revenue of $109.9 billion, a 22 per cent increase year over year that beat analyst estimates by almost $3 billion. Google Cloud crossed $20 billion in quarterly revenue for the first time, growing 63 per cent. The cloud backlog nearly […]

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