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Anthropic’s IPO and the race to list AI
Kirill Parinov with Kate
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How we pick fifty companies
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EU court adviser says ByteDance should lose its challenge to TikTok's DMA designation
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Florida attorney general sues Discord over child safety and age verification
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Doximity and OpenEvidence file notice of settlement in AI prompt-hacking suit
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Replit CEO says enterprise contracts are about 15% of 2026 revenue, up from about 2%
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Consumer group sends Trade Republic a new warning over its interest opt-in design
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Ramp says annualized revenue passed $2 billion, up from a reported $1.5 billion in June
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Bank of America leaves bank roster for Moonshot AI's planned IPO amid US scrutiny
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Kraken parent Payward agrees to buy Lithuania's Saldo Bank for an EU banking licence
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Mistral AI acquires design firm New Material to form a Solutions Design team
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Anthropic tells prospective IPO investors Q3 revenue reached $16.8B, up 45% from Q2
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Eight US states sue OpenAI in state courts over ChatGPT safety and child harm
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Anduril opens employee tender at $94.80 a share, valuing it at about $90 billion
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Applied Intuition reported to be fielding offers at $30B valuation or more
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Hyundai Motor and Kia make a strategic investment in VAST Data; terms undisclosed
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Anthropic licenses Opaque Systems' confidential-AI tech and hires engineers
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OpenAI reported in early talks to acquire security firm Trail of Bits
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Shield AI delivers first V-BATs to Taiwan Coast Guard; twelve due in coming months
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Greek Navy evaluates Saronic Corsair vessels, files US sales request; 30 reported
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Anthropic asks D.C. appeals court to rehear its appeal of the Pentagon blacklisting
Podcast7 min
Ramp at $60 billion, and what fintech growth is worth
Kirill Parinov with Kate
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Trade Republic reports FY2024/25 revenue of EUR 754M and net profit of EUR 232.6M
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Moonshot's CEO and CTO in talks to settle Recurrent.ai arbitration, Reuters reported
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Ramp raises $1.85 billion in primary round at $60 billion valuation led by Dragoneer
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Databricks acquires Responsive, an object-storage database team, to speed up Lakebase
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Revolut CEO Storonsky says the company would favor a US primary listing if it goes public
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OpenAI annualized revenue is roughly $50B, below the nearly $70B reported in September
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Rippling opens 132,693 sq ft New York office for 1,000+ staff, nearly doubling footprint
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Navy adds $150M to Shield AI's X-BAT agreement; company matches with $150M of its own
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USA Today Co. and Gannett units sue OpenAI in New York federal court, seeking over $250M
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The Information: Nvidia discussed investing another $1B in Figure at about $38B pre-money
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ARK Venture Fund marks Figure AI Series B at $160.00 a share at July 31, 2026
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ARK Venture Fund values its Kalshi Series E and F shares at $32,847,995 at July 31, 2026
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ARK Venture Fund values Lambda Series D and E-2 preferred at $38.00 a share
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Former DHS chief information officer Antoine McCord rejoins Anduril, FedScoop reports
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Cyera said it is certified at FedRAMP Class D, formerly High, in under five months
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Moonshot AI reported to target Hong Kong IPO in Q1 2027 after $50B final private round
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Lambda reported to be raising up to $4B at $14.5B valuation, led by Blackstone and Coatue
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Lambda plans a 2027 IPO as it raises up to $4B at a $14.5B pre-money valuation
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Moonshot AI closes its final private round at about $50B, Bloomberg reports
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RoboStrategy holds Apptronik Series Seed at about $36.70 a share ($18.83M) as of Sep 30
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Saronic names Kevin Humphreys, ex-Lloyd's Register, to new VP of Commercial role
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Ripple joins OKX funding extension at $25B pre-money with Circle, QRT, SC Ventures
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Lambda's backlog rose from $15 billion in June to $50 billion in September, WSJ says
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Dubai's VARA grants Kraken parent Payward full market approval ahead of UAE launch
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Erebor reportedly holds more than $7 billion in deposits, Financial Times says
Podcast8 min
Kalshi’s $40 billion and the fight over sports
Kirill Parinov with Kate
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Etched weighed investor bids at $40B to $50B valuations, TechCrunch reported
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Anduril acquires Massachusetts underwater acoustics firm Popoto Modem; terms undisclosed
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Ohio regulator orders Polymarket US and nine others to stop sports contracts by Oct 16
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Anthropic reported to target IPO as soon as mid-November, raising about $100B on Nasdaq
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SoftBank funds final $10B tranche of $30B OpenAI follow-on; stake about 13%
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Lambda closes $1.008B fixed-rate GPU term loan at 6.78%, marketed to insurers
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Canva names Bukalapak co-founder Willix Halim as its South-east Asia CEO
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Vercel reported at $600M annualized revenue, up 148%; agents half of new business
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ElevenLabs closes $300M employee tender at $22B valuation, double February's
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Kalshi was finalizing funding at a $40 billion valuation ahead of IPO, Bloomberg reported
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Stripe agrees to acquire small-business financing platform Parafin; terms undisclosed
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FTC opens consumer-protection investigation of Anthropic and OpenAI over AI harm claims
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Shield AI picks Des Moines, WA for X-BAT production and Newton, KS for flight test
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Saronic breaks ground on $3.2 billion Port Alpha shipyard in Brownsville, Texas
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OpenAI reported to target at least $30B in new funding at about $1.4T value
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Kalshi reported in advanced talks to raise about $1B at a $40B valuation
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Arkane Cloud selects VAST AI OS as data foundation of its French enterprise AI cloud
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Navy awards Saronic production deal for 10 Marauder drone ships at $40M average
Podcast8 min
Fireworks, Baseten and the price of inference
Kirill Parinov with Kate
SignalSep 28
SunAmerica Series Trust marked Canva at $1,448.21 a share as of July 31, down 7.8%
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Neuberger Berman fund marked Anduril common at $68.95 a share as of July 31, unchanged
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Reuters said Anthropic's IPO prospectus showed 2025 revenue near $4.6B, net loss near $42B
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Lambda announced plans for a data center at MidAmerica Industrial Park in Oklahoma
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Fireworks AI announces $132M employee tender led by Atreides; $17.5B valuation reported
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Fireworks AI weighs a new funding round at a valuation of up to $30B, reports say
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BlackRock fund marks Databricks common at $239.87 a share as of July 31, 2026
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Alger funds' N-PORT values Figure AI Series C at $194.86 per share at July 31, 2026
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Franklin Templeton fund marks Plaid Class A at $279.27 a share as of July 31, 2026
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BlackRock fund marks ByteDance E-1 at $355.50 a share as of July 31, up 6.4%
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T. Rowe Price fund filing marks Databricks at $253.00 a share as of July 31
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Franklin Templeton fund marks Databricks Series G at $245.96 a share, up 7.7%
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Replit acquired AI business-analysis startup Atta; terms undisclosed, two co-founders join
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Baseten names former Figma CMO Sheila Vashee as Chief Marketing Officer
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DaVoice sues Perplexity in San Francisco federal court over wake-word trade secrets
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Judge denies Deel bid to strike Rippling witness and sends counterclaims to arbitration
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Sixth Circuit rules Kalshi sports contracts are not swaps, siding with Ohio, Tennessee
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D.C. Circuit upholds Pentagon supply-chain-risk label on Anthropic in 2-1 ruling
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OpenEvidence could be open to a sale after $15 billion round, Business Insider reported
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Teachers' Venture Growth invests US$50M, extending Harvey's round to US$600M
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Databricks acquires spreadsheet startup Row Zero for Genie; terms undisclosed
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Argentina's central bank approves Revolut's purchase of Banco Cetelem Argentina
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Lovable says annual run-rate revenue has passed $600M, up from about $500M in June
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New York sues Polymarket US over unlicensed gambling; Polymarket countersues
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Fidelity funds mark Revolut common at $1,921.77 a share as of July 31, up 39.5%
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Fidelity funds mark Databricks Series G at $240.24 a share as of July 31, up 20.7%
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Fidelity funds mark ByteDance Series E-1 at $330.47 a share as of July 31, up 4.1%
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Fidelity funds mark Canva Class A at $1,384.70 a share as of July 31, up 9.0%
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Fidelity N-PORT marks Discord Series I at $23.51 a share as of July 31, unchanged
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Fidelity N-PORT values Plaid Class A at $295.60 a share as of July 31, 2026
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Stripe's Irish holding company reports 2025 revenue of $6.79bn, pre-tax profit $445.5m
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Thinking Machines Lab signs $65 million annual inference agreement with Crusoe
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Cyera CEO Yotam Segev said the company is aiming for an IPO but feels no urgency
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Cyera adds $400M Series G extension from Goldman Sachs at over $12B valuation
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Baseten in talks to raise at about a $26B valuation, Axios and Bloomberg reported
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ClickHouse appoints ex-Snowflake CFO Mike Scarpelli as independent director, Audit chair
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Rippling opens AI Lab in Bengaluru as its India headcount nears 2,500
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Harvey receives Texas TX-RAMP Level 2 certification, effective September 22, 2026
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Reports say Airwallex IPO rumoured for 2027 as China-links row clouds 2026 listing
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Mistral AI acquires Paris adtech startup Pimento; reported price EUR3.8m to EUR12.7m
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Deel says Akai agents helped add $140M in ARR in 90 days without new hires
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Bloomberg: Harvey gross margin fell from about 50% to -50% by June, since turned positive
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WSJ reports a $10M stolen-card fraud attempt at Polymarket and a CFTC investigation
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Franklin Templeton marks Canva at US$1,541 a share, an implied US$39.3B, at June 30
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Lovable acquires Sutro; founder Tomas Halgas and three engineers join the company
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Antitrust suit names Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google over calls to pace AI
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Scaleup Europe Fund in talks to invest in an ElevenLabs round of over $500M, per Bloomberg
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Crusoe announces initial close of $3.9B Series F at $30.9B post-money valuation
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Revolut CEO tells Les Echos the company is weighing a London and Nasdaq dual listing
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Crusoe adds Cloudflare CFO Thomas Seifert, Bill Stein and JB Straubel to its board
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Crusoe reports over $140B in total contracted value and over 6 GW of contracted capacity
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House China committee chair asks Treasury to assess Airwallex's China ties as a data risk
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OpenEvidence raises $250M at a $15B valuation in round led by Byers Capital and a16z
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Harvey appoints former Microsoft AI executive Adam Sadovsky as Chief Research Officer
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ByteDance spin-off Anew Labs raises $290M at a $1.5B valuation; ByteDance keeps 56%
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Ninth Circuit finds California tribes likely to win claims over Kalshi sports contracts
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Revolut applies for a Swiss banking licence and commits over CHF 150M of investment
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OpenAI weighs new funding round at a valuation above $1.2T, Bloomberg and FT report
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Revolut receives Colombian operating licence, the last step before bank launch
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Trade Republic opens a Belgian branch with local IBANs and passes 100,000 customers
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ByteDance first-half 2026 revenue rose about 30% to $120B as net profit fell to about $20B
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Navy awards Saronic one of three LCU 1700 landing craft prototype agreements
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Shield AI reported in talks to raise a Series H at a valuation of at least $20B
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OpenAI buys smartphone camera startup Glass Imaging for over $300M, WSJ reports
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Canva and Crunch Digital file duelling lawsuits over music licensing in Los Angeles
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Altman says OpenAI will not go public in 2026, citing safety and an ill-advised moment
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Nvidia in talks to invest up to $10 billion in Anthropic's IPO, Reuters reports
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Moonshot AI revenue run rate tops $1 billion in August, with $2 billion targeted for 2026
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Crusoe launches about $509M senior secured delayed-draw loan due 2030 for GPUs
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Nasdaq Ventures invests $100M in Kraken parent Payward at a $21B valuation
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Baseten acquires Blaxel, a startup building sandboxes for AI agents; terms undisclosed
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Polymarket names former Amazon CFO Warren Jenson its first chief financial officer
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Anthropic report accuses Moonshot of covertly routing Kimi user requests through Claude
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The Boring Company announces $3B Series D at a $23B valuation, led by the UAE
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Harvey raises $550M at a $15.5B valuation in a round co-led by Diffusion and Lightspeed
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Harvey acquires Guardrails AI, an AI agent security platform, its fourth deal of 2026
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Bloomberg reports Ramp in early talks on a new round at about a $60B valuation
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Mistral AI raises EUR3B Series D at over EUR21B post-money, led by Samsung
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ElevenLabs reportedly eyes a 2028 IPO; CEO hopes the groundwork is ready by then
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Anthropic walks away from a planned $6B acquisition of Decart AI, Bloomberg reports
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ElevenLabs names former Adyen CFO Ethan Tandowsky as its chief financial officer
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CISA advisory names Moonshot AI among Chinese firms distilling US AI models
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Canva reported to be hiring senior staff for US public-company readiness
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Reuters: Anthropic IPO launch shifts toward mid-October; four banks named on the deal
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Databricks files declaratory-judgment patent suit against Nom Nom Data in California
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ByteDance secures $29.6B three-year syndicated loan, upsized from $20B target
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Nscale makes undisclosed strategic investment in Figure, tied to a compute partnership
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Cyera completes $1B acquisition of Oasis Security, which will operate as Cyera Identity
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Revolut gets conditional OCC approval for a US national bank charter
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Crusoe reportedly signs five-year, roughly $13B AI cloud contract with Jane Street
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Moonshot AI reportedly filed confidentially for Hong Kong IPO to raise $3B-$5B
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Kraken parent Payward delays IPO to Q2 2027 at the earliest, CoinDesk reports
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