Investors: Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, Sequoia Capital, Capital Group, Coatue, D1 Capital Partners
AI research company Anthropic raised $65 billion at a $965 billion post-money valuation in its Series H round.
Investors: Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, Sequoia Capital, Capital Group, Coatue, D1 Capital Partners, Baillie Gifford, Blackstone, Brookfield, D.E. Shaw Ventures, DST Global, Fidelity Management & Research
AI lab behind Claude raised $65 billion at $965 billion valuation in Series H round.
AI research lab Anthropic announced a $30 billion Series G funding round.
Anthropic joins $1.8B carbon removal bet, AI sector enters climate markets
Anthropic commits to Frontier's $915M carbon removal tranche, nearly doubling pledges and marking AI's first structural entry into durable CDR offtake markets.
Anthropic raises $65B at $965B valuation, four-way co-led
Anthropic closed a $65B Series H at a $965B post-money valuation co-led by Altimeter, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia, with $15B from hyperscalers including a $5B Amazon check and direct memory-supplier participation from Micron, Samsung, and SK hynix.
Blackstone and Google spin out standalone TPU cloud with $5B
Blackstone commits $5 billion to a new Google TPU cloud venture, targeting 500 MW of capacity in 2027 and directly challenging Nvidia's dominance in AI infrastructure.
Pentagon task force deploys AI hacking tools inside classified networks
US Cyber Command and NSA launched a joint task force to operationalize offensive AI models on high-side classified systems, reshaping vendor competition and exposing legal friction over Anthropic's supply-chain designation.
Pentagon deploys eight frontier AI firms to classified networks, cuts Anthropic out
The DoD announced May 1 deals with OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, AWS, NVIDIA, SpaceX, Oracle, and Reflection AI for classified network deployment, formally excluding Anthropic after the company refused unrestricted military use of Claude.
Tenstorrent's $110K AI Server Challenges Nvidia's Inference Dominance
Tenstorrent launches Galaxy Blackhole inference servers at 3-5x cheaper per node than Nvidia DGX, with 16 units already deployed at Equinix and performance claims that undercut the GPU+LPU disaggregation trend.
Google Splits TPU in Two: Training and Inference Arms
Google bifurcated its eighth-generation TPU into specialized training and inference chips on April 22, 2026, marking the first architectural split in a decade and directly challenging Nvidia's grip on AI infrastructure scaling.
Pentagon Locks Maven to Army, Sets Sept 30 Deadline for Program Status
Deputy SecDef Feinberg's March 9 directive to make Palantir's Maven Smart System an official DoD program of record is now confirmed across four combatant commands, with a Sept 30 hard deadline that experts call aggressive and a $10B Army backstop contract already in place.
Meta and Broadcom Lock in 1GW Custom AI Silicon Through 2029
Meta and Broadcom announced a multi-year partnership on custom MTIA chips through 2029, committing to deploy 1 gigawatt initially with plans to scale to multiple gigawatts by 2027. The chips will be the industry's first 2nm AI accelerators, shifting the inference market away from Nvidia.