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Sources: Anthropic projects 2028 revenue of ~$190B-$200B, vs. a revenue run rate of $47B in May, as bankers and investors price the company ahead of an IPO — As Anthropic prepares for what could be one of the biggest IPOs on record, Wall Street is looking further into the future …
More: Times of India, Blockonomi, Nairametrics, Finimize, and Fortune
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Docs: Anthropic told investors it generated $11.5B+ in revenue, with positive adjusted operating income, in Q2, up from $787M in Q2 2025 and $4.73B in Q1 2026 — Anthropic PBC is telling prospective investors its second-quarter revenue jumped at least 14-fold versus the same period a year ago …
More: The Information and Tech in Asia
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| Madison Mills / Axios: |
Risk report: Anthropic raises misalignment risk estimate from very low to low and says it doesn't plan to release a stronger internal model called “Model 2” — Anthropic does not plan to release an internal model that appears to be more powerful than top-of-the-line Mythos …
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| Kate Rooney / CNBC: |
Source: OpenAI CFO told investors that enterprise business now generates more revenue than ChatGPT-led consumer business; enterprise customers grew 32% in July — At the end of a week of turmoil in OpenAI's C-suite, finance chief Sarah Friar held a meeting with investors on Friday …
More: The Asia Business Daily, International Business Times, Unite.AI, Quartz, and PYMNTS
| Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: |
BCG: enterprise users spent a total of $300M on quantum computing in 2025, outranking the combined spending of research labs and governments for the first time — Many companies are pouring millions into quantum computing programs to gain a competitive edge and prepare for future encryption threats| Bloomberg: |
SpaceX closes its $60B acquisition of Cursor, two months after SpaceX formally announced it had agreed to acquire the startup — SpaceX has completed a $60 billion acquisition of artificial intelligence coding startup Cursor, a key part of Elon Musk's bid to gain ground on rivals Anthropic PBC and OpenAI.
More: Cursor, WOWTALE, The Mac Observer, The Coin Republic, The New Stack, PitchBook, Accel, crypto.news, The American Bazaar, Bitcoin News, Business Today, Business Insider, The Information, a16z, CoinGape, and Blockonomi
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Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says the US is “not in favor” of Apple buying Chinese memory chips, and there have to be “other solutions to the memory issue” — Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick urges iPhone maker to find other solutions to AI-driven chip supply crunch
More: AppleInsider, The Mac Observer, 9to5Mac, The Asia Business Daily, Seoul Economic Daily, and Quartz. Forums: r/MU_Stock
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: PayPal is in talks to sell itself to a group including Stripe and Advent, which proposed paying $60.50/share in July; PayPal is seeking a higher price — The fintech startup and private-equity firm Advent offered to buy the struggling payments company in July| Larry Dignan / Constellation Research: |
Dynatrace agrees to acquire Arize, which specializes in AI observability and the AI development lifecycle, for $915M, including ~$815M in cash — Dynatrace acquired Arize, which specializes in AI observability and the AI development lifecycle, in a deal worth $915 million.
More: Dynatrace, Inc., Arize AI, Forbes, CRN, Pulse 2.0, ITPro, and StockStory
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LinkedIn: Juhi Saluja and Larry Dignan
| Reuters: |
Z.ai says GLM-5.3 scores 84.5% on CyberGym, vs. Mythos 5's 83.8%, and its most sensitive cybersecurity functions will only be available to verified users — Chinese AI startup Z.ai said on Friday its open-source GLM-5.3 model had neared Anthropic's restricted Mythos 5 in identifying software …
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X: @joshua_saxe, @zaddyzaddy, @hesamation, @samhogan, @elshayib_, @zixuanli_, and @_nathancalvin. Bluesky: @druce.ai
| William Sandlund / Financial Times: |
Shanghai's tech-focused Star 50 index is up 29% in 2026, and its P/E ratio is 150+, above Nasdaq 100's 35, fueled by Beijing's tech push and an investor frenzy — Support from Beijing has helped power 29% gain for Star 50 index this year — Backing from Beijing and an investor frenzy …
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| Giacomo Lee / SDxCentral: |
Point2 Technology, which develops RF-based data center interconnection tech, raised a $136M Series B from LB Investment, Arm, Maverick Silicon, and others — Data center interconnect disruptor Point2 Technology celebrates Series B success — AI data center interconnect specialist Point2 …
More: Business Wire, Seoul Economic Daily, FinSMEs, The Next Web, and VC News Daily
| Abhinaya Prabhu / Tech Funding News: |
SF-based Vals, which develops evaluations and benchmarks to test AI models on real-world tasks, raised a $40M Series A led by a16z at a $400M valuation — - Vals AI raised $40 million in a Series A round at a $400 million valuation. — Revenue has grown eightfold since 2025 … | Financial Times: |
Effective altruism, hit by the SBF turmoil, is drawing record funding as Anthropic and OpenAI IPOs are set to mint new millionaires wedded to “effective giving” — Expected IPOs for Anthropic and OpenAI are set to mint a new generation of philanthropists wedded to ‘effective giving’| Michael Martina / Reuters: |
Source and letter: the US plans to tell 35 partner countries they'll be excluded from the US-led Pax Silica initiative if they also join China's rival framework — The U.S. is preparing to tell dozens of countries they must pick sides in the artificial intelligence race with China …
More: Seoul Economic Daily. X: @hecubian_devil, @yacinemtb, @tszzl, @max_paperclips, @a_musingcat, @ruima, and @yacinemtb. Bluesky: @reuterszengerle
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| The Economic Times: |
Sources: Uber and Rapido discussed merging their India ride-hailing operations in May; talks collapsed after disagreements over the proposed deal's structure — Uber and Rapido discussed merging their India ride-hailing operations in May, sources told us. Talks collapsed after disagreements over the proposed deal's structure.| Zijing Wu / Financial Times: |
Sources: China plans to soon lift a travel ban on Manus founders as the company unwinds its $2B acquisition by Meta; CEO Xiao Hong plans to return to Singapore — Chief executive Xiao Hong plans to return to Singapore as AI company nears resolution of Meta separationSponsor Posts
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