Anthropic is about to spend more buying one AI startup than most companies raise in a lifetime, and the math only works if chips are the new bottleneck. Anthropic is in talks to acquire AI startup Decart for $6 billion, making it the company's largest known acquisition
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A Portuguese drone company nobody's heard of just became worth more than most European unicorns, and the quiet part is who's writing the checks. Tekever, a surveillance drone maker, is raising up to €500 million at a €5.5 billion valuation, a 5x jump from 2025
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A server search mistake just turned 1,700 alleged fraud victims into legal ghosts. South Korean courts sentenced Delio CEO Jung Sang-ho (Jeong) to 15 years in prison for defrauding investors of approximately $50 million through the crypto lending platform
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The people building the future of intelligence are about to get very, very liquid, and Wall Street is bending over backwards to catch the wave. Wealth management firms are slashing fees and negotiating terms to court employees at Anthropic and OpenAI ahead of expected IPO windfalls
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The valuation tells you everything: AI's Cambrian explosion just entered its "give me $750M at seed" phase. Kevin Weil, OpenAI's former CPO who led their Prism science initiative, is raising $150M at a $750M valuation for an AI science startup focused on gathering scientific data for AI models
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India's fintech market just got its latest test case for whether consumer lending apps can actually build durable businesses worth owning. Navi Ltd., the fintech from Flipkart co-founder Sachin Bansal, is prepping a $315 million IPO in India, hiring banks to formalize the process
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When a central bank waits 13 years to touch an asset class, then suddenly buys it through a financial wrapper instead of the real thing, that's not routine portfolio maintenance. South Korea's central bank took a $250 million position in a gold ETF, its first gold-linked investment since 2013
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A two-month-old company just raised more money than most startups see in a lifetime, and the founder's last gig was building Grok with Elon Musk. River AI raised $1.1 billion in Series A funding led by General Catalyst, despite being founded just two months ago by xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin
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The Chinese AI lab that rattled Silicon Valley with cheap reasoning models just opened job postings for coding agent developers — right as Anthropic's Claude Code prints money.
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SpaceX's AI division just priced the future of delegation at $120 a month, and the most interesting part isn't the bot, it's that they built it for themselves first.
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The meme stock that broke Wall Street in 2021 just became a 24/7 tradable token on the chain that processes more transactions than Ethereum.
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The tokenization trade just learned an expensive lesson: bigger piles of onchain assets don't automatically translate to profitable business models. Securitize posted a $22M Q2 net loss with revenue falling 5%, sending shares down over 20% in their first earnings report as a public company
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While Western tech giants brag about AI revenue, China's biggest company just showed what the infrastructure buildout actually costs. Tencent's revenue grew 11% year-over-year, beating analyst expectations on strong WeChat ad sales and resilient gaming revenue
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Strategy just proved you can have your Bitcoin and eat it too — by selling some to buy back the very instrument that funded the hoard in the first place.
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The AI wealth boom just doubled the real estate record in Silicon Valley's most expensive suburb — and we're still in the early innings.
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The machines that train AI are now being used as collateral, and nobody's quite sure what they're worth when the music stops.
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The AI gold rush has its own version of vendor financing, and Wall Street just decided it's not a problem. Counterpoint's Neil Shah discusses Nvidia's "circular deals" — the practice of chip companies financing the very customers buying their GPUs to power AI infrastructure
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Wall Street's most cautious bank just paid top dollar to own a billion-dollar Bitcoin options factory. Goldman Sachs acquired NEOS for $2.25 billion in a cash-and-equity deal, instantly gaining a ~$1 billion Bitcoin covered-call ETF business
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The money's moving from "AI will change everything" to "AI better change my P&L by Q3." Thrive Holdings just closed $2 billion at a $12 billion valuation, backed by SoftBank, D1 Capital Partners, and Altimeter Capital, with OpenAI as an existing investor
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SpaceX is about to make more money from AI than from launching satellites into orbit. Musk told SpaceX employees that AI revenue will exceed all other company revenue by September, with a "significant" lead by Q4
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