AI startup Anthropic closes $30B Series G funding led by GIC and Coatue, achieving $380B valuation with $14B run-rate revenue growing 10x annually.

Modal Labs in talks with General Catalyst for new round at $2.5B valuation, reflecting surging investor interest in AI inference infrastructure.

Blackstone adds $200 million to its Anthropic stake, bringing total investment to $1 billion at a $350 billion valuation following Claude Opus 4.6 launch.

AI video generation startup Runway secures $315 million in Series E funding led by General Atlantic, nearly doubling its valuation to $5.3 billion as it shifts focus to developing advanced world models.

AI startup Anthropic raises double its initial target with $20B round led by Nvidia and Microsoft, valuing the company at $350 billion amid fierce competition.

Benchmark Capital commits $225 million to AI chipmaker Cerebras Systems in $1 billion Series H round, valuing the Nvidia rival at $23 billion ahead of Q2 2026 IPO.

Alphabet's Waymo secures $16 billion in funding at a $126 billion valuation, leading the week's largest funding rounds as it plans to expand robotaxi services to 20 new cities including Tokyo and London.

Fundamental raises $255M for Nexus, a Large Tabular Model that brings AI foundation model capabilities to enterprise structured data.

Seattle-based Overland AI secured $100 million in Series B funding led by 8VC to meet surging demand for its ULTRA autonomous tactical vehicles used by the US military. The company's technology enables off-road autonomous navigation in GPS-denied environments for dangerous combat engineering missions.

Major AI funding wave sees Waabi secure $1B for autonomous trucking, Decagon triple to $4.5B valuation, and PaleBlueDot AI reach unicorn status at $1B+.

Anthropic completes its latest funding round above $10 billion target at $350 billion valuation, with potential to reach $10-15 billion if Microsoft and Nvidia contribute.

SoftBank Group is in discussions to invest $30 billion in OpenAI as part of a funding round that could raise up to $100 billion and value the company at $830 billion.

Silicon Valley is pouring money into the dream of recursive self-improvement, with startup Ricursive Intelligence, founded by ex-Google researchers, reaching a $4 billion valuation to build AI that can improve itself.

UK-based AI video generation platform Synthesia has raised $200 million in a Series E round, doubling its valuation to $4 billion. The funding will be used to scale its AI-powered corporate training and communication tools.

Recursive AI, a new startup from famed researcher Richard Socher, is in discussions for a funding round that would value the company at $4 billion. The lab aims to build superintelligent AI that can improve itself autonomously.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is reportedly in talks with sovereign wealth funds in Abu Dhabi to raise over $50 billion in a new funding round, which could value the company at approximately $750-$830 billion.

DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says AI industry not in bubble but warns of excess funding in startups with no products, citing unsustainable multi-billion seed rounds.

A new analysis from TechCrunch examines the business models and monetization strategies of leading AI labs, including Humans&, Thinking Machines Lab, World Labs, and Safe Superintelligence. The report introduces a five-level scale to measure commercial ambition.

Harvey, a leading legal AI startup, has acquired Hexus to accelerate its enterprise AI offerings. With a staggering $8 billion valuation and over 1,000 clients, Harvey is solidifying its position as a dominant force in the rapidly evolving legal technology market.

Humans&, a new AI startup founded by former researchers from Anthropic, xAI, and Google, has raised $480 million in a seed round, achieving a $4.8 billion valuation with backing from Nvidia and Jeff Bezos.