Coatue brings a down round of $3 billion on Databricks. The message is clear: in a cycle where the model is commoditized, data remains the moat.
17 h ago 8 8
Tencent SkillHub opens SkillPay to sell AI agent skills. An agentic plugin marketplace, made in Shenzhen.
17 h ago 11 9
DeepSeek reaches a $51.9 billion valuation after a new funding round. The private market continues to pay a high price for the "frontier open-weight sino" option.
17 h ago 9 9
Ars Technica documents a wave of IPOs in the energy sector, driven by investors looking to board the AI train without buying Nvidia at its current multiples. The energy proxy becomes the favorite derivative trade - a clear end-of-cycle signal.
yesterday 8 8
The first open-weights model from Thinking Machines Lab (Mira Murati) is here: Inkling, MoE 975B params (41B active), multimodal, Apache-2.0 license. The most discreet box in the frontier scene enters the open market through the front door.
yesterday 8 8
After CoreWeave (March 2025), the compute layer continues to productize at the capital-markets layer. What matters isn't the raise.
yesterday 12 11
India moves to make a human step mandatory in AI-driven payment flows. The biggest UPI market gets first-mover on regulating agentic commerce.
yesterday 11 8
OpenAI has built GPT-Red, a purpose-built model to probe prompt injection vulnerabilities, per Tech in Asia. Two things happen when you name your red-team model: you signal a discipline, and you create a market.
yesterday 9 9
Anthropic added rupee pricing for Claude in India. Small operational change, real strategic meaning - the fight for the Indian market is now about payment rails and taxation, not model quality.
yesterday 6 9
TSMC is set to post a fifth consecutive record Q2 profit. Records used to be a surprise; five in a row means the AI compute pinch is no longer a spike, it is the operating regime.
yesterday 9 8
Anthropic is preparing a US listing as early as October, according to Tech in Asia. The number nobody has yet: at what price the "safety-first" narrative sells to public investors when OpenAI still sets the tempo.
yesterday 9 8
The startup raises a $130M round led across the US-India bridge. Funds earmarked for hiring and go-to-market.
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