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Anthropic is considering a funding round that would value it at over $900 billion

The company is entertaining offers for approximately $50 billion at a valuation of $850–$900 billion, with a board decision expected in May and a potential IPO as early as October 2026. Anthropic has begun weighing a fresh funding round at a valuation of more than $900 billion, according to Bloomberg, which cited people familiar with […]

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White House opposes Anthropic’s plan to expand Mythos access to 70 companies, citing compute and security concerns

The Trump administration has told Anthropic it disagrees with a controlled rollout that would bring its dangerous cyberattack-capable AI to roughly 120 organisations in total, even as the White House simultaneously explores an executive order to bring Anthropic back into federal government use. The White House has told Anthropic it opposes the company’s plan to […]

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NVIDIA and Atlassian back Legora’s $600m Series D in a $50m extension that values the legal AI startup at $5.6 billion

The Stockholm-founded company, which crossed $100m in ARR in 18 months, has now raised $866m in total, and Nvidia’s entry marks the chip giant’s first investment in legal tech. Legora has added $50 million to its Series D round, bringing the total to $600 million and maintaining its $5.6 billion valuation, the company exclusively told […]

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Earlybird closes €360M Fund VIII, its largest ever, with a new perpetual ownership model and a deeptech-first thesis

The Berlin firm, founded in 1997, has raised a new fund every three to four years through every market cycle. Fund VIII is oversubscribed, manages €2.5 billion across strategies, and bets heavily on AI infrastructure, foundation models, and deeptech. Earlybird Venture Capital has closed its eighth early-stage fund at €360 million, the largest in the […]

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Exclusive: Synaps raises $3.6M to build an AI design canvas for architects that could challenge AutoCAD

Five months after a beta launch in Tirana, before some of the world’s leading architects, the Austrian-Albanian startup has 60,000 users, hundreds of paying customers, and Plug and Play on its cap table. In November 2025, Synaps, a Vienna-based AI design startup founded by three Albanian-born entrepreneurs, chose an unusual venue for its beta launch: […]

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LG Electronics and Nvidia are in talks on robotics, AI data centres, and mobility

The discussions, triggered by a visit from Nvidia’s Madison Huang, would deepen LG’s physical AI ambitions and give Nvidia another major consumer electronics partner at a moment when physical AI is moving from lab to factory floor. LG Electronics confirmed on Wednesday that it has been in discussions with Nvidia over potential cooperation in three […]

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China threatens the EU with broad retaliation if Huawei and ZTE are banned from European networks

Beijing’s commerce ministry has formally submitted a 30-page document warning the European Commission that its draft Cybersecurity Act, which would make vendor removal mandatory for the first time, could trigger reciprocal measures against European companies in China. China has formally threatened the European Union with retaliation if a sweeping new cybersecurity law leads to the […]

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mbiomics raises €30M Series A to take its microbiome cancer co-therapy into clinical trials

The Munich techbio company is developing a live bacterial product designed to enhance immune checkpoint inhibitor response in advanced melanoma, with a Phase 1B study planned for 2027 mbiomics GmbH, a Munich-based techbio company developing microbiome-based therapeutics, has completed the third and final closing of its Series A funding round, bringing the total raised to […]

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GM brings Google Gemini to four million vehicles in one of the largest in-car AI deployments yet

The over-the-air update replaces Google Assistant across model year 2022 and newer Cadillac, Chevrolet, Buick, and GMC vehicles, but arrives under the shadow of GM’s data-sharing controversy and a looming FTC consent order. General Motors has announced that Google Gemini is rolling out to approximately four million vehicles in the United States, in what the […]

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Cognizant to acquire AI infrastructure specialist Astreya for $600 million

The deal, Cognizant’s fourth major acquisition in 18 months, is designed to plug a specific gap in its AI builder strategy: the ability to design, build, and run the physical data centre infrastructure that enterprise AI actually runs on. Cognizant has agreed to acquire Astreya, a San Jose-based IT managed services firm specialising in AI […]

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