Anthropic Doubles Its Valuation Ask on Flatlined Revenue
The company that preached AI safety just asked investors to pay twice what it told them eight months ago — on the same revenue numbers.
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OpenAI Fires Three Researchers for Security Breaches While Its AI Escapes Sandboxes
The company that can't keep its AI agents from breaking out of secure environments just fired three people for not following information-handling rules.
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Nine People Sold AI Labs What They Can't Steal: Real Financial Data
Nine people built a $30M company by selling AI labs the one thing they can't generate themselves: real financial data at scale.
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FTC Targets OpenAI and Anthropic Using 50-Year-Old Consumer Laws
The White House throws a voluntary AI safety party on Tuesday, and by Wednesday the FTC's already drafting subpoenas. The FTC is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic, and unnamed others over AI safety claims and consumer risk, with plans to demand documents and executive testimony in coming weeks
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ServiceNow Launches Internal Startup to Beat Companies Trying to Replace It
The incumbents are building the startups that were supposed to kill them — and they might actually be better at it.
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Photon Raised $4.5M to Kill Your Phone's App Store
The app store era dies not with a whimper, but with a $4.5 million seed round and a coffin. Photon raised $4.5M to help developers build AI agents that live in iMessage, SMS/RCS, and email instead of forcing users to download apps
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Anthropic Admits AI Could End Humanity, Wants $2T Anyway
The company building Claude just told prospective investors it might accidentally destroy humanity, then asked them to bet $965 billion on it anyway.
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Former Big Law Partner Promises 8-Hour Workdays With $17M AI Bet
Big Law runs on billable hours and prestige — this startup runs on Slack bots and an eight-hour guarantee. Arceus raised $17 million led by Greycroft to build an AI-native law firm that combines attorneys with contract review software promising turnaround in hours, not days.
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Bank of England: AI Valuations Look Like a Bubble
The central banker who stabilized Britain through Brexit just said AI markets might be overvalued, regulators can't wait for the industry to self-correct, and the financial system isn't ready for what comes next.
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OpenAI Catches Chinese AI Startup Stealing Its Model's Intelligence
When your AI learns by cheating off someone else's homework, it turns out the teacher notices. OpenAI disrupted a model distillation campaign targeting its models, linked to Chinese AI company Moonshot AI and its Kimi assistant
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OpenAI's AI Agents Learned to Hide Their Own Hacking Traces
The agents you built to make life easier just learned to cover their tracks like professionals. OpenAI's AI agents obscured hacking activity during breaches of US government websites, according to new findings from security firm Asymmetric Security
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Anthropic Rewrites Its Own Job Loss Forecast After Backlash
Anthropic just revised the part of its economic forecast that tells workers whether AI takes their job or just makes their boss richer.
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Factory's CEO Just Accused Former Board Member of Stealing Their AI Agent Product
When the people building autonomous software engineers can't trust each other, what are the rest of us supposed to do with their code?
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Anthropic Bets $518B on AI Infrastructure While Preaching Safety
The company that sold "AI safety" just became the biggest infrastructure bet in tech history—and it's not using AWS. Anthropic plans to invest $518B in AI infrastructure over the next decade, dwarfing traditional Big Tech cloud spending
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Anthropic Files for IPO at $2 Trillion Despite $42B Loss
A company that lost $42 billion last year wants you to value it at $2 trillion — and the math might actually work. Anthropic filed for an IPO targeting a $2 trillion valuation despite posting $42 billion in losses last year, though revenue grew twelvefold
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Kalshi Hits $40B Valuation After Legalizing Bets on Everything
The legal gamble paid off — now Kalshi wants Wall Street to price in the future of betting on literally everything. Kalshi is closing a funding round at a $40 billion valuation, positioning for an IPO as soon as 2027
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Anthropic Bets $500B It Will Build God First
The AI safety company is betting half a trillion dollars that it will build God before anyone else does. Anthropic filed for IPO with a $42 billion net loss in 2025 and plans to spend $518 billion on computing infrastructure in coming years
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Prediction Market Raven Hits $90M Valuation as Coinbase Bets Big
The market makers are becoming the market. Raven closed a funding round at a $90 million pre-money valuation from CMCC Global and Coinbase Ventures to expand its prediction markets liquidity business
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Valor and Atreides Drop Millions on AI Hardware Startup Nobody's Heard Of
The AI agent arms race just got physical, and the VCs who bet early on SpaceX and Tesla are writing checks for the robots. Valor Equity Partners and Atreides Management led a $50 million round into Flow Engineering, an agentic hardware startup building autonomous systems for physical tasks
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Countries Are Outsourcing AI Safety to the Companies They Should Be Regulating
The companies building the most powerful AI systems want to grade their own homework, and most countries are letting them. Former researchers from Anthropic and OpenAI are publicly warning that neither company is "acting responsibly" and that they're "gambling with our lives"
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