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Recursive’s $400 million outlay represents the bulk of the company’s fundraising to date.

A $400 million chip-backed loan points to the next wave of AI infrastructure deals.

Reflection AI has signed a $1 billion deal to access Nebius's compute. Reflection was founded in 2024 and is developing open source AI technology.

As Anthropic forges a closer relationship with the state of California, the federal government has made an enemy out of the OpenAI rival.

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Agility Robotics, the humanoid robotics startup that spun out of Oregon State University in 2015, expects to generate $620 million in proceeds.

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What does an AI company do after one of those not-acqui-hire deals? Groq raised money, is leaning into its neocloud business, and hiring new execs.

Google DeepMind and A24 are teaming up to build AI filmmaking tools.

Reflection AI will pay $150 million a month beginning July 1, 2026 through 2029 for immediate access to Nvidia's latest GB300 AI chips and supporting hardware across SpaceX's Colossus 2 data center near Memphis, Tennessee.

Meta starts dismantling its $2 billion Manus acquisition after Beijing ordered the deal reversed.

The 168-megawatt facility will support Meta's global AI computing needs and can be expanded over time.

Lovable and Google signed an expanded multi-year deal athat involves a 5x expansion of Lovable's footprint on Google Cloud, and expanded access to Anthropic Claude.

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Enterprise AI is entering a different phase now, one where enterprises are no longer evaluating whether AI is exciting. They are evaluating whether it is safe to deploy broadly.

Snowflake has signed a new, enormous five-year deal with Amazon to secure chips for AI usage. Nvidia is once again being put on notice.

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Spotify is partnering with Universal Music Group to let Premium subscribers create AI-generated song covers and remixes, with participating artists receiving a share of the revenue.

On the latest episode of the Equity podcast, we discussed what xAI's deal with Anthropic might mean for parent company SpaceX.

Nvidia continues to be a big investor in the AI ecosystem.

The deal, announced last November, would have seen Perplexity's AI search engine integrated directly into Snapchat.

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