#инвестиции
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OpenAI eyes $30B raise at $1.25T valuation, delaying its IPO
Rather than rushing to the public markets, OpenAI is reportedly close to another mega private round: up to $30 billion at a $1.25 trillion pre-money valuation. If it lands, OpenAI becomes the most valuable private company ever.
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DeepSeek reportedly raises $15B just days after US ban
The Chinese AI lab has closed one of the country's largest funding rounds — only two days after US authorities ordered its technology stripped from federal systems.
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Meta to create a new class of shares to bankroll its AI drive
In its quarterly earnings report, Meta announced a new class of non-voting shares to fund its artificial intelligence efforts, with trading set to begin in 2027.
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Blackwall raises $100M at a $2.2B valuation as bots and AI agents crowd the web
The Estonian firm that filters web traffic for hosting providers has quadrupled its valuation in a year, betting on managing the surge of bots and AI agents.
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OpenAI in talks for $30B round at a $1.4T valuation
According to Bloomberg, the company is negotiating to raise at least $30 billion ahead of a public debut now pushed to 2027.
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Oracle on the hook to pay data centre investors even if the site has no power
According to the Financial Times, Oracle is obligated to pay data centre investors even when a site has no electricity supply.
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Insight Partners isn't betting the farm on OpenAI and Anthropic — and here's why
Deven Parekh, who has co-led the $90 billion venture firm Insight Partners for 26 years, explains why he holds stakes in competing AI labs and why diversification is safer than the fashionable concentration on the two front-runners.
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Mistral raises €3B for “sovereign,” open-weight AI
French startup Mistral has closed a €3B Series D round at a valuation of more than €21B — the largest equity raise in the history of European tech companies. Samsung Electronics led the round.
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Crusoe Raises $3B at a $30B Valuation
Data center developer Crusoe has tripled its valuation in ten months on the back of a $13 billion contract with Jane Street.
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AI startup Instinct raises $350M at a $2.5B valuation
A one-year-old startup led by a 23-year-old founder offers an AI assistant that will “organize your life” — and it has already stirred up not just buzz, but also privacy concerns.
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SEC Takes Interest in the Situational Awareness Hedge Fund After a Rout in AI Stocks
A hedge fund that bet on artificial intelligence went from Wall Street darling to the target of federal subpoenas in a matter of weeks.
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Nvidia Invests in Data-Center Infrastructure Developer Cloverleaf
Nvidia keeps plowing its profits into building the data centers that then turn around and buy its own chips. This time the partner is Cloverleaf Infrastructure.
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Nvidia Sharply Scales Back Its Guarantees for Financing OpenAI's Infrastructure
According to Reuters, citing the Wall Street Journal, Nvidia is substantially reducing the size of the guarantees it is prepared to provide toward the construction of OpenAI's data centers.
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Aschenbrenner's Hedge Fund Invests $400M in Chip Startup Source Foundry
Despite selling off most of its public portfolio, the Situational Awareness fund keeps making big bets — this time in chip manufacturing.
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The AI rally increasingly rests on borrowed money — and lenders are repricing it
A Grey Swan Signals post argues that the boom around artificial intelligence is being financed with debt, and that lenders are starting to reprice the risk of these bets.
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DeepSeek Pauses Funding Round After Leak of Liang Wenfeng's Remarks on the Compute Gap With the U.S.
A written transcript of a meeting between DeepSeek's founder and investors has surfaced online. After remarks about how far the company lags behind the U.S. in available computing power were leaked, the startup, according to the publication, paused its fundraising.
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Hidden debts of five US tech giants soar to $1.65tn on opaque AI funding
Nikkei Asia reports that the combined hidden liabilities of the five largest US technology companies have reached $1.65 trillion amid opaque schemes for financing artificial intelligence projects.
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Databricks Reaches a $188 Billion Valuation on the Wave of AI Interest
Databricks, once known as a big-data platform, has announced a new valuation of $188 billion, cementing its status as one of the leading beneficiaries of the artificial intelligence boom. The company also published research on the savings that come from using open AI models to write code.
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Oratomic startup raises $300M to build a quantum computer with 20,000 qubits
The newly founded company Oratomic has secured $300M in funding to develop a practically viable quantum computer. According to the startup, doing so will require only about 20,000 qubits.
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Startup Trusts an AI Agent to Run a $100M Round
Lyzr, a company building AI agents for enterprise clients, handed the job of running its own $100M funding round to one of its own agents. That's how the startup chose to demonstrate the product's viability in practice.
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