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Trajectory raises $45M Series A for continual AI learning platform, Anthropic IPO filing reveals $17B revenue and $895B compute commitments, Salesforce acquires Cresta for $2.7B to add voice agents to Service Cloud

Anthropic S-1 filing reveals $17B revenue and $895B infrastructure commitments, OpenAI hires former Army Secretary Dan Driscoll for national security role, Northwood Space raises $375M Series C at $2B valuation

Marvell acquires Lumentum for $115B in all-stock deal targeting AI optical infrastructure, DeepSeek open-sources autonomous Router-Worker coding agent prototype, Binance covers 95% of record $6.3B North Korea hack from reserves

Lumaril raises $66M Series A to deploy AI above factory control systems, NeuroXess closes $105M Series B to run clinical trials and mass manufacturing simultaneously, Guidewire acquires hyperexponential for up to $2.1B in agentic underwriting push

Wabi raises $55M at $1.25B valuation for multiplayer AI agents, Upwind Security closes $400M Series C after rejecting Datadog acquisition, Cohere targets record CAD $7B Series E with Canada government backing

DoorDash acquires Instacart for $17 billion in landmark delivery merger, Upwind Security raises $400M after rejecting Datadog's $4B acquisition offer, Fragment emerges from stealth with $56M to deploy AI agents on enterprise procurement exceptions

Foundry Robotics raises $100M Series A for autonomous manufacturing-as-a-service, Fragment launches with $56M to automate enterprise procurement exceptions, Dalet Labs raises $7M for AI-powered shopping discovery app Scene

Meta closes largest equity offering in history at $97.5B with NVIDIA and AMD buying in, Google DeepMind launches Genie 4 world simulation model with native audio, Bedrock Robotics raises $600M Series C for autonomous excavators

OpenAI nears $30B raise at record $1.25T valuation with UAE backing, LSEG acquires Octus for $3.5B to defend against AI data disruption, NVIDIA launches Minerva AIOps platform for GPU infrastructure

Anthropic files S-1 for Nasdaq IPO targeting $1.5-2T valuation, Meta launches $95B equity raise for AI infrastructure, SpaceX locks in $40B GPU lease with Apollo Global Management

Block unveils Dessa audio-only speech AI with local inference and safety concerns, Instacart explores sale with DoorDash after Uber exits, Baba raises $40M for AI-powered Medicare navigation

Xona Space raises $250M and puts satellites in orbit as GPS jamming threats grow, Enact Intelligence pulls $30M pre-seed to give robots proprioceptive touch, Slingshot Insurance debuts with $27M to build AI-native embedded insurance infrastructure

Slingshot Insurance raises $27M seed to automate embedded micro-policies, Swiss startup Enact Intelligence raises $30M pre-seed to give robots a sense of touch, Xona Space Systems closes $250M Series D and launches first GPS-rival satellites

Jio Platforms IPO crosses 5x subscription with institutional demand at 13x, SpaceX-Tesla merger talks complicated by Musk's public endorsement, NVIDIA unveils full-stack Isaac robotics platform at GTC Berlin

Anthropic draft S-1 targets $1.5-2T Nasdaq IPO with $750B compute pledge, Legora legal AI raises $550M Series E at $8.8B valuation doubling in 7 months, Mistral launches Voxtral 3 unified voice agent SDK undercutting rivals on price and EU compliance

Motion.so launches General Video Agent in open beta, SpaceX AI compute segment posts 830% revenue growth to overtake Starlink, OpenAI acquires Orchestra Bio to build full-stack biopharma AI

OpenAI accelerates $30B raise ahead of Anthropic IPO, DeepSeek open-sources production inference engine with Huawei chip support, Arda Industries raises $232M to automate U.S. factory planning

Tenstorrent raises $1.5B Series E at $6.2B valuation with Jim Keller at the helm, OpenAI accelerates $30B fundraise ahead of Anthropic IPO, Amazon open-sources TorchNeuron to make Trainium chips a one-line swap for PyTorch developers

Amazon launches TorchNeuron open-source PyTorch backend for Trainium chips, Apple confirms October 28 Pro and Tell hands-on event with touchscreen MacBook Pro expected, Jio Platforms IPO anchor book hits 30x oversubscription with $26 billion in bids

Tenstorrent raises $1.5B Series E at $6.2B valuation to challenge NVIDIA with open RISC-V chips, HCLTech splits fresher salaries into a 4x gap based on AI skills, Strive acquires 1223 BTC targeting second-largest corporate holder status

OpenAI engineer arrested for planting hidden recorder in executive conference room, Modal Labs raises $750M Series D crossing $1B ARR, Ramp closes $1.85B round at $60B valuation

TSMC posts 51% revenue surge on AI chip demand, Samsung reports 782% profit jump on memory boom, OpenAI and Anthropic war-game catastrophic AI incident scenarios

OpenAI publishes 722 AI-generated math manuscripts sparking community backlash, Google launches Playground AI game creation platform with Unity partnership, Google opens SynthID AI content detector to the public worldwide

Lambda raises $4B pre-IPO on $50B backlog anchored by Anthropic deal, Nous Research closes $90M Series B at $1.5B valuation with open-source Hermes Agent, ByteDance launches Dreamina Originals for professional AI film production

Uber acquires ezCater for $2.3B to target corporate catering market, Paramount Skydance closes $110B Warner Bros. Discovery merger to form Skydance Corporation, Moonshot AI hits $50B valuation ahead of planned Hong Kong IPO

Uber acquires ezCater for $2.3B in corporate catering push, Moonshot AI closes $50B valuation round ahead of Hong Kong IPO, Google releases EmbeddingGemma 2 open multimodal model for edge devices

OpenAI launches ChatGPT ads hitting $100M ARR, OpenAI rolls out EU text watermarking with textGrain, Reflection AI unveils 501B open-weight model Beam, Anthropic ships Claude Managed Agents for production

OpenAI safety lead resigns calling culture broken, Trump launches Super Intelligence Force AI task force, Aleph Alpha releases Kolibri-1 open-weight model

Trump launches Super Intelligence Force to lead federal AI strategy, Aleph Alpha releases open-weight Kolibri-1 for European public sector, Google cuts free Gemini model access ahead of October 9 changes

Broadcom lends Anthropic $42B to finance Google TPU lease amid $518B infrastructure obligations, AMD acquires Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2B in spatial AI push, OpenAI fires three safety researchers for sharing data with external watchdog