Anthropic Files Confidential IPO—65B AI Lab Eyes Public Markets
Anthropic filed a confidential S-1 with the SEC days after closing a 5B round at 65B valuation, beating OpenAI and setting up a historic AI IPO…
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Groq Chases $650M After Nvidia’s $20B Deal—Inference Cloud Is Act Two
Groq raises $650M from existing backers for Groq 2.0, an AI inference neocloud pivot after the $20B Nvidia licensing deal and a senior leadership exodus.
XCENA Raises $135M — AI’s Bottleneck Is Memory, Not Compute
XCENA raised $135M Series B at $570M valuation for MX1, a chip placing compute inside DRAM to eliminate the memory round trip bottlenecking AI inference.
DuckDuckGo Installs Surge 30%—Users Reject Google’s ‘Force-Fed’ AI
DuckDuckGo installs jumped 30% after Google replaced search with AI agents. The CEO said Google is force-feeding AI with no opt-out option available now.
OpenRouter Hits $1.3B Valuation—Google’s CapitalG Leads $113M Round
OpenRouter raised $113M at a $1.3B valuation led by Google's CapitalG as the AI API gateway revenue surged from $10 million to $50 million in five…
nginx-poolslip—AI Agent Found Unpatched RCE in 30% of the Web
Unpatched NGINX 1.31.0 RCE zero-day nginx-poolslip bypasses ASLR. Found by AI agent 8 days after nginx-rift patch. No CVE, no fix, millions of servers at risk.
Adcock’s $700M Hark Bet—The Same Founder Now Runs Two AI Unicorns
Figure AI founder Brett Adcock raised $700M at a $6B valuation for Hark — a consumer AI hardware lab. He now runs two companies worth $45B…
SynthID Goes Industry-Wide—OpenAI and Nvidia Just Signed On
Google's SynthID watermark has labeled 100B AI images. Now OpenAI, Nvidia, Kakao, and ElevenLabs are adopting it—and a new detector portal opens to the public.
Karpathy Left OpenAI Twice—Now He’s Building Anthropic’s Pre-Training
OpenAI co-founder Karpathy joins Anthropic to lead pre-training acceleration with Claude. Cyber veteran Chris Rohlf also joins the frontier red team.
Apple Brings Apple Intelligence to Accessibility Features With VoiceOver, Magnifier, and Vision Pro Wheelchair Control
Apple previewed a suite of accessibility updates powered by Apple Intelligence, bringing new capabilities to features that users with disabilities rely on daily. The…