Anthropic partnered with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, Goldman Sachs, and others to create a $1.5 billion enterprise AI services firm. The new company embeds Anthropic engineers directly inside mid-market companies in healthcare, manufacturing, and financial services.
Anthropic is weighing a fresh funding round at a $900B+ valuation that would leapfrog OpenAI. The company's annualized revenue run rate has surpassed $30 billion, tripling from $9B just months ago.
SoftBank is creating a new AI and robotics company called Roze and targeting a $100 billion valuation in a U.S. IPO as early as late 2026. The company will automate data center construction using robotics and will incorporate ABB Robotics.
Q1 2026 earnings reports from Microsoft, Meta, Alphabet, and Amazon reveal combined capital expenditures exceeding $725 billion for the year — nearly double last year's $410 billion — as the AI data center arms race accelerates.
Defense AI funding is moving up the stack from vehicles to orchestration. Scout AI says it raised an oversubscribed $100 million Series A, described in the release as the largest defense-tech Series A in U.S. history, to accelerate Fury, its model for unmanned warfare.
The funding headline matters because it prices a new layer of the AI stack: infrastructure for agents that need live access to the web. Parallel says it raised a $100 million Series B at a $2 billion valuation, bringing total funding to $230 million just five months after its last round.
Swedish legal AI startup Legora raised $600M total in its Series D, reaching a $5.6B valuation with Nvidia NVentures making its first-ever legal AI investment. The company crossed $100M ARR between the two tranche closings, setting up a direct rivalry with Harvey.
Investors just placed another billion-dollar bet on an AI path that tries to move beyond human-written data. David Silver’s new lab, Ineffable Intelligence, raised $1.1 billion to pursue reinforcement-learning systems it calls “superlearners.”
Alphabet just rewired the AI capital race: $10 billion goes to Anthropic now at a $350 billion valuation, with another $30 billion tied to performance targets. Coming days after Amazon’s own pledge, the deal shows that frontier labs are no longer raising money in rounds so much as pre-buying compute at planetary scale.
Alphabet’s planned investment is enormous even by 2026 AI standards: $10 billion committed now, with another $30 billion tied to performance targets. Reuters says the deal comes as Anthropic’s run-rate revenue tops $30 billion and the company races to lock in more computing capacity after parallel deals with Amazon, Broadcom, and CoreWeave.
Nagoshi Studio’s YouTube channel vanished on April 23, taking the Gang of Dragon trailers with it. Destructoid says the removal followed NetEase funding trouble and an urgent search for new backing before May, though neither company has issued an official statement.
This is not just another AI funding round. TechCrunch reports Google will put in $10 billion now at a $350 billion valuation, with as much as $30 billion more tied to Anthropic targets and 5 gigawatts of fresh compute over five years.