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TechCrunch recaps Bloomberg's breakdown of what Anthropic's major backers' stakes are worth at the company's $965 billion last-private-round valuation — ahead of an IPO expected this year at as much as $2 trillion.
Crunchbase's weekly top-10 U.S. funding roundup is AI-heavy, led by Tenstorrent's $1.5B Series E at a $6.2B valuation and AI lab Flapping Airplanes' $1B Series A, with large rounds spanning biotech, space, defense and manufacturing software.
Nvidia reportedly to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9B, a major open-source AI platform deal that values Hugging Face around $4.5B (2023) and could broaden Nvidia’s software footprint beyond GPUs.
Microsoft won a DoD cloud contract potentially worth up to $10B, followed by a wave of funding rounds across biotech, quantum, fintech and media, plus regulatory and exit notes including AB5 debates and Barneys’ sale.
Digest catalogs a broad wave of funding rounds across biotech, fintech, and consumer tech, plus notable leadership moves, with Album VC raising a $75M Utah fund and Pinterest delivering mixed Q3 results.
Altman calls for pacing AI development amid safety concerns, as regulatory and governance debates intensify after the Hugging Face breach; Nvidia-backed SSI accelerates frontier AI work, Cursor localizes India pricing ahead of a SpaceX deal, and Nadella warns enterprises against outsourcing thinking to labs, highlighting regulatory, competitive, and market-expansion risks.
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