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JUDGE SAYS PENTAGON'S ANTHROPIC BAN 'LOOKS LIKE PUNISHMENT'
Anthropic warns it faces billions in losses if blacklist holds...
Trump names Zuckerberg, Jensen Huang, Larry Ellison to new White House AI panel...
Funding & Deals
OpenAI in talks to raise another $10B, bringing total fundraising past $120B...
Nscale raises $2B Series C at $14.6B valuation for AI infrastructure...
Yann LeCun's Advanced Machine Intelligence raises $1.03B — largest European seed ever...
Legora (formerly Leya) raises $550M at $5.55B for AI legal platform...
Nexthop AI picks up $500M Series B for AI networking infrastructure...
Mind Robotics — Rivian spinout — closes $500M Series A at $2B...
Rhoda AI emerges from stealth with $450M for video-trained robotics...
Replit raises $400M Series D at $9B — up 3x in six months...
Granola raises $125M, hits $1.5B valuation as AI meeting app goes enterprise...
Manifold raises $8M seed for AI agent security...
AI startups pull in $220B in first two months of 2026: Crunchbase...
March funding slows sharply after January-February AI megarounds...
AI startups take 41% of $128B in Carta venture dollars — record share...
IPOs & Public Markets
Altman, Amodei and Musk fight dirty for biggest prize in business: IPO...
OpenAI targeting $1 trillion valuation in potential IPO...
Anthropic IPO could value company at $400B...
Top AI stocks in 2026: optical networking plays Lumentum, Ciena lead...
Goldman: AI-vulnerable stocks down 20%, beneficiaries down 5%...
Tech IPO hype drowned out by prospect of $1 trillion in AI debt sales...
M&A & Consolidation
Tech M&A value surges 65% in January to $43.2B — mega-deals dominate...
Meta acquires autonomous agent platform Manus for $2B...
Alphabet finalizes $32B acquisition of cloud-security firm Wiz...
PwC: AI creating K-shaped M&A market — megadeals up, volume muted...
SoftBank injects $9B into DigitalBridge for AI infrastructure...
IBM's $11B Confluent deal builds smart data platform for AI agents...
OpenAI acquires viral 'vibe-coded' app OpenClaw; Meta buys its spinoff Moltbook...
Global M&A boom rolls into 2026 as AI sparks deal frenzy...
AI Industry
OpenAI shuts down Sora video platform months after launch; Disney deal scrapped...
OpenAI taps former Meta executive Dave Dugan to lead ad push...
Meta executive Bosworth to spearhead company-wide AI adoption push...
Meta targets $9 trillion valuation with new AI executive incentive program...
Tesla, SpaceX plan new chip factory in Texas for vehicles and satellites...
Anduril, Palantir developing Golden Dome missile shield software — $185B project...
Bank of America rolls out AI agents to 1,000 financial advisors...
JPMorgan expands AI investment as tech spending nears $20B...
CFOs say AI coming for admin jobs; little evidence of broad losses yet...
Companies aren't ripping out business software for AI — they're vibe-coding instead...
Nvidia expanding its empire beyond chips as AI boom's biggest winner...
Regulation & Policy
Federal judge: Pentagon blacklisting of Anthropic 'looks like punishment'...
Anthropic first U.S. firm ever designated a 'supply chain risk' by DOD...
Trump names Zuckerberg, Huang, Ellison, Brin, Dell to PCAST science panel...
White House AI framework urges 'light-touch' regulation, federal preemption of state laws...
Framework bars new federal AI regulator; relies on sector-specific rules...
Sen. Blackburn's TRUMP AMERICA AI Act tracks White House framework closely...
White House codifies ratepayer protection pledge — tech firms must pay for data center power...
China both drives and constrains AI rise; cheap energy may be its biggest advantage...
Earnings & Financials
AI startups raise $220B in Jan-Feb 2026 — nearly half of all global VC...
Three February rounds (OpenAI, Anthropic, Waymo) = 83% of all global VC that month...
SLB and Nvidia expand AI collaboration for energy industry...
Nvidia, Emerald AI partner with power companies on new AI factories...
Martin Sorrell: S4 Capital's future depends on AI adoption at scale...
Hyperscalers spending $760M daily on AI infrastructure: Goldman...
Goldman: AI hyperscaler capex consensus hits $527B for 2026...
Amazon alone estimates $200B in AI capex for 2026...
UBS: AI-related debt issuance doubled to $710B, could hit $990B...
Research & Breakthroughs
Morgan Stanley: massive AI breakthrough coming first half of 2026...
GPT-5.4 'Thinking' scores 83% on GDPVal — at or above human expert level...
Next phase of AI may require very different processors — Nvidia faces startup competition...
The inside story of the greatest deal Google ever made: buying DeepMind...
Startups pushing AI into patient care — Doctronic raises $40M...
Top AI models underperform in languages other than English — health advice at risk...
ABB and Nvidia partnership shows physical AI simulation driving ROI in factories...
Visa testing AI agents that initiate payments within banking systems...
Goldman: 65 new gigawatts of data center capacity coming by 2030...