Funding rounds, acquisitions, valuations and listings in AI and technology, including the Gulf investors behind many of them.
The Abu Dhabi AI company has not disclosed the size of the investment, which follows Dtonic's selection for Presight's accelerator in July and a September partnership.
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Start-ups in the region raised $40 million across 32 deals with no later-stage rounds, while Tabby's UAE payments account signed up a million users in two months.
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Jacob Coxon reads the slide as evidence that algorithmic efficiency is accelerating, and says Anthropic could already retrain Mythos with a fraction of the original compute.
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Venture investors expect interim chief Colette Kress to be more cautious with the cheques that have propped up neoclouds, inference providers and open-weight model makers.
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The round, which has not formally closed, came in below the $30 billion and $1.4 trillion price OpenAI first pitched, days before rival Anthropic lists on Nasdaq.
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Non-US customers can request ANTx tokens at the offer price plus a 5% spread, while traders link bitcoin's six-week slide to money moving toward the listing.
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The San Francisco start-up sells AI agents that research accounts and prepare outreach for enterprise sales teams, and is pitching itself as an alternative to Salesforce.
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Nvidia reports on Tuesday under an interim chief, and Anthropic is expected to price an offering of up to $64.4 billion on Wednesday before trading starts Thursday.
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At a livestreamed roadshow event at JPMorgan, the Anthropic chief said the company buys compute cautiously and wants the listing's cash as a buffer against uncertain demand.
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People familiar with the deal partly cite US arms-trade rules, and some excluded investors are looking at offshore trusts and swaps to get exposure.
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Equipment orders for its Anthropic contracts have pushed up commitments the AI data centre operator says it cannot defer, while nine-month losses widened to almost $1.7 billion.
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The Dubai billionaire says he invested at an $18 billion valuation, ahead of Anthropic's November 19 Nasdaq listing, and is now negotiating for data centre land in the UK and Australia.
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The trading firm held 23.8 million shares worth about $5.44 billion at the end of September, though its 13F leaves out short positions and any later trades.
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The Abu Dhabi AI firm did not disclose the size of its position in the pre-IPO company, which already works with it on smart city and data projects.
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The prediction market operator would put the new money into a platform for trading compute futures, setting up competition with CME Group and ICE.
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A deal could come together within weeks, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg, a year after Samsung completed its €1.5 billion purchase of FläktGroup.
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The AI agent tooling startup's valuation is 2.4 times its level of a year ago, and it plans to nearly double its staff to 850 by the end of 2027.
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Networking sales jumped 43% to $11.1 billion, and the company now expects about $9 billion of AI infrastructure revenue from hyperscalers this fiscal year.
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Bankers have told investors that existing backers will be served first, so some buyers could get less stock than they wanted before the Nasdaq debut on November 19.
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The research firm based its forecast on pre-IPO perpetual futures trading, and the estimate is more than double the record SpaceX set in June.
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Index funds could take about $19 billion of the stock within 15 days of listing, but employee selling on day one could make Anthropic trade differently from SpaceX.
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The Wells Fargo-backed firm's 18th fund will invest in the US, India and Israel, with physical AI, voice AI and agentic cybersecurity among its priorities.
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Siri co-founder Dag Kittlaus is backing and advising the startup, which pitches a four-second voice test as a private alternative to CAPTCHA and ID-based age checks.
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The Riyadh company, which says its database holds more than one billion verified business contacts, did not disclose the size of the round backed by angels and corporate investors.
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Large anchor-size orders account for much of the demand for a deal that could raise up to $90.4 billion, though people familiar with it say terms could still change.
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The San Francisco Foundation will manage the fund and has released $500,000 to four local nonprofits as Anthropic prepares a Nasdaq listing targeted for November 19.
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Founded by former autonomous-driving engineers, the startup builds digital twins of a customer's software to find agent failures, then trains small open-weight models on the results.
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The research firm's base case is about a fifth higher than the $1.404 trillion implied by the top of the $70-$78 range, but its bear case is just $500 billion.
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About €700 million went into the Ardian Semiconductor fund itself and the rest into co-investments, and the strategy has already bought into four European chip suppliers.
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Even at the low end, the Japanese tranche would be the largest offering by a foreign company in Japan, beating the $2.2 billion SpaceX raised there in June.
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