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.
This round matters because enterprise AI still breaks when models hit untrusted business data. Omni raised $120M at a $1.5B valuation, arguing that governed analytics and permissions, not another chat surface, are the missing layer for AI agents.
Factory raised a $150 million Series C at a $1.5 billion valuation, a fresh signal that AI coding agent companies are racing from developer tools into enterprise infrastructure budgets.
Factory raised a $150M Series C at a $1.5B valuation. The signal is that coding agents are being sold as enterprise software-factory infrastructure, with model routing, governance, and cost control moving into the product pitch.
Artemis came out of stealth with $70 million and a bet that defenders need an AI-native security brain, not more alert noise. The startup says it has already closed several seven-figure deals and expects multi-million-dollar ARR before the end of 2026.