Anthropic raises $30 billion, now valued at $380 billion

Jon Keegan / sherwood - The company announced that it has a $14 billion annual revenue run-rate, and business subscriptions to Claude Code have quadrupled since the start of the year.

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$30bn raised from a *telethon* of investors. This is insane. Never seen anything like it in my life. Anthropic is scraping every barrel dry, and guess what? This barely covers the $21 billion in orders it has with Broadcom, let alone the projected $12bn i

22 days / bsky / @edzitron.com

22 days / cnbc

Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation

22 days / ycombinator

Wildlight Lays Off Majority of Devs After Middling Highguard Launch

techpowerup - Highguard, the new free-to-play raid shooter from Wildlight Entertainment, launched in late January to high player counts that quickly dwindled after a lukewarm reception, despite bringing some unique concepts to the table. Since its launch, daily concurr…

#gaming #entertainment #business #jobs #layoffs #videogames

Highguard studio lays off 'most' of its team just weeks after the game went live

22 days / engadget / Lawrence Bonk

Wildlight Lays Off Majority of Devs After Middling Highguard Launch

22 days / techpowerup

Highguard may be about to suffer the same fate as PS5’s Concord, as the developer lays off ‘most’ of its staff

22 days / theshortcut / Reece Bithrey

Highguard layoffs hit 'most' developers at Wildlight Entertainment

23 days / tbreak / Mufaddal Fakhruddin

Apple acquires all rights to Severance, will produce future seasons in-house

Aisha Malik / techcrunch - The show is expected to run for four seasons, with the possibility of spin-offs, a prequel, and foreign versions.

#apple #entertainment #business #culture #acquisitions #media #tv #intellectualproperty #copyright

The show is expected to run for four seasons, with the possibility of spin-offs, a prequel, and foreign versions.

22 days / bsky / @techcrunch.com / techcrunch.com

Apple TV Acquires All Rights To Severance, As Spin-Offs And More Could Be In The Works

22 days / bgr

Apple acquires all rights to Severance, will produce future seasons in-house

22 days / techcrunch / Aisha Malik

Apple Takes Full Control of 'Severance' in Surprise Deal

22 days / macrumors / Hartley Charlton

Apple acquires Severance and will produce future seasons in-house

23 days / engadget / Mariella Moon

Bitcoin Will Fall to $50K and Ethereum Will Hit $1,400 Before Rebound: Standard Chartered

Stacy Elliott / decrypt - Standard Chartered predicts Bitcoin will hit $100K and Ethereum will rise to $4,000 by the end of 2026, but expects further drops first.

#blockchain #fintech #crypto #banking #stockmarket #business #bitcoin #economy #crypto

Standard Chartered cut its bitcoin price target to $100K. Was previously $150K, with a warning that it could bottom around $50K. Guess a change was in order, can’t imagine anything less useful than having had a $100K price range on an asset trading arou

22 days / bsky / @ljkawa.bsky.social / ljkawa.bsky.social

JPMorgan sees bitcoin support near $77,000, remains ‘positive’ on crypto in 2026

22 days / theblock / Yogita Khatri

The Daily: Standard Chartered warns of further ‘pain and final capitulation’ for BTC and ETH, Binance completes $1B SAFU conversion to bitcoin, and more

22 days / theblock / James Hunt

Bitcoin Treasuries Added $3.5 Billion in January—Almost All By Strategy

22 days / decrypt / André Beganski

Bitcoin sinks below $67,000 as crypto prices follow U.S. stocks lower

22 days / coindesk / Stephen Alpher

Is DeepSnitch AI Bonus Offer of Up to 300% Stealing Rain and Power Protocol Investors Seeking the Next 100X Crypto? Analysts Warn of Prolonged Downturn as Bitcoin Struggles Near $68K

22 days / parameter / Michelle DG

Bitcoin Will Fall to $50K and Ethereum Will Hit $1,400 Before Rebound: Standard Chartered

22 days / decrypt / Stacy Elliott

Standard Chartered sees bitcoin sliding to $50,000, ether to $1,400 before recovery

22 days / coindesk / Will Canny

Standard Chartered lowers bitcoin projection to $100,000, sees bottom at $50,000 “in the next few months”

22 days / sherwood / Yaël Bizouati-Kennedy

Standard Chartered sees bitcoin falling to $50,000, ether to $1,400 before rebound

22 days / theblock / Yogita Khatri

Apple Stores See iPhone 16e, iPad Air Shortages as New Models Near

Tim Hardwick / macrumors - Apple's retail inventory of iPhone 16e and iPad Air models has reportedly dwindled to almost nothing as the company inches towards the release of new versions of both devices. They are expected to launch in the coming weeks.In a post on X (Twitter), Bloom…

#apple #business #iphone #supplychain #ipad #manufacturing #technology #gadgets #smartphone

Now Isn't the Time to Buy an iPhone 16E. Here's Why You Should Wait

23 days / cnet / David Lumb

iPhone 16e and iPad Air stocks are reportedly depleting at Apple retail

23 days / appleinsider

Apple Stores See iPhone 16e, iPad Air Shortages as New Models Near

23 days / macrumors / Tim Hardwick

iPhone 16e Inventory Has ‘Dried Out,’ According To Apple Employees, Signaling The Imminent Arrival Of The iPhone 17e

23 days / wccftech / Omar Sohail

Memory price surge of ‘more than 600%’ squeezes China’s device makers

scmp - A global memory supply shock is sweeping through the electronics industry, as surging component costs threaten to squeeze China’s smartphone and broadband equipment manufacturers.New data from TrendForce and Counterpoint Research point to mounting risks a…

#semiconductors #chips #stockmarket #business #supplychain #pricing #manufacturing #technology #cisco #memory

Lenovo hikes PC prices and warns of a prolonged memory crisis

22 days / digitaltrends

HANMI's New Wide TC Bonder Equipment Paves Way for HBM5 & HBM6

22 days / techpowerup

Corsair fights back against RAM scammers and thieves with packaging shift — ditches iconic yellow boxes for transparent plastic and anti-tampering labels

22 days / tomshardware

Cisco's memory-price warning is having ripple effects across the tech sector

22 days / cnbc

The memory boom is back: Global revenue to reach $551 billion in 2026 as prices skyrocket

22 days / techspot

Memory chip stocks: Why Micron and Sandisk are soaring today as shortage fuels global RAM demand

22 days / fastcompany / Michael Grothaus

Memory price surge of ‘more than 600%’ squeezes China’s device makers

22 days / scmp

Cisco slumps as memory price spike weighed on margins

22 days / sherwood / Matt Phillips

Memory price explosion triggers PC buying spree

23 days / theregister / Dan Robinson

Memory hoarding and skyrocketing prices hit entry-level electronics demand, foundry orders — China's top chipmaker points to supply chain pressures squeezing out consumers

23 days / reddit / /u/sr_local

SoftBank’s OpenAI investment gains drive fourth consecutive profitable quarter

Claire Yubin Oh / sherwood - The Japanese conglomerate has nearly booked $20 billion in investment gains on its $34.6 billion OpenAI position.

#ai #vc #openai #genai #stockmarket #earnings #business #asia #economy #softbank

SoftBank’s OpenAI investment gains drive fourth consecutive profitable quarter

23 days / sherwood / Claire Yubin Oh

SoftBank Vision Fund books $2.4 billion quarterly gain boosted by OpenAI bet

23 days / cnbc

SoftBank swings to profit, boosted by gain from OpenAI investment

23 days / ft

Human brain-based AI startup raises £6m

Oscar Hornstein / uktech - Stanhope AI, a startup developing artificial intelligence technology that aims to mimic the processes of the human brain, has raised $8m (£5.8m). The company, which previously secured a £2.3m investment back in 2024, is working on its Real World Model pro…

#ai #startups #innovation #ml #business #neuroscience #deeptech #technology #research

World models startup Stanhope AI raises $8m round led by Frontline Ventures

22 days / sifted

Can Stanhope AI’s brain-like models finally make drones smart?

22 days / techfundingnews / Vignesh R

Human brain-based AI startup raises £6m

23 days / uktech / Oscar Hornstein

Stanhope AI, co-founded by Irish woman Rosalyn Moran, raises $8m

23 days / siliconrepublic / Laura Varley

Stanhope AI Raises $8M in Seed Funding

23 days / finsmes / FinSMEs

Electric Twin expands AI audience platform with $14M round

Tamara Djurickovic / tech - Electric Twin, an AIplatform developing synthetic audience models designed to simulate real-worldhuman thinking and behaviour, has raised $14 million in funding. The totalincludes a $10 million round ...

#ai #startups #analytics #enterprise #digitalmarketing #genai #business #uk #technology #advertising

Electric Twin Raises $14M Funding To Grow Its AI Audience Platform

23 days / startuprise / Kailee Rainse

UK government adviser and military commander land €12 million to scale Electric Twin’s synthetic audience platform

23 days / eu-startups / David Cendon Garcia

AI startup building ‘synthetic audiences’ to model human thought raises £10m

23 days / uktech / Oscar Hornstein

Electric Twin Raises $14M in Pre-Seed and Seed Funding

23 days / finsmes / FinSMEs

Electric Twin expands AI audience platform with $14M round

23 days / tech / Tamara Djurickovic

Marc Andreessen backs $10m raise for ‘synthetic audience’ startup Electric Twin

23 days / sifted

Paris-based Rivage raises €2.6M to modernise payroll for accounting firms

Abhinaya Prabhu / techfundingnews - Paris-based Rivage has secured €2.6 million in pre-seed funding to fast-track the rollout of its payroll software across…

#startups #cloud #software #fintech #saas #enterprise #business #europe

Paris-based Rivage raises €2.6M to modernise payroll for accounting firms

23 days / techfundingnews / Abhinaya Prabhu

France Startup Rivage Secures €2.6M Funding To Grow Payroll Software For Accounting Firms

23 days / startuprise / Kailee Rainse

Rivage raises €2.6M to expand payroll software across accounting firms

23 days / tech / Tamara Djurickovic

Bracket Raises $7M in Seed Funding

FinSMEs / finsmes - Bracket, a London, UK-based fintech that has developed an FX, treasury and cash management platform, raised $7M in Seed funding. The round was led by Macquarie Group and Blackfinch Ventures, with participation from existing investor Failup Ventures. the c…

#startups #fintech #saas #enterprise #banking #business #uk #treasury #europe #payments

Treasury intelligence platform Bracket raises £5m

22 days / uktech / Oscar Hornstein

London-Based Bracket Raises $7M Funding In Seed Round

23 days / startuprise / Kailee Rainse

Bracket Raises $7M in Seed Funding

23 days / finsmes / FinSMEs

Bracket closes $7M round to expand treasury intelligence platform

23 days / tech / Tamara Djurickovic

$7M to finally ditch spreadsheets? Meet Bracket, the fintech on a mission to end manual treasury with AI

23 days / techfundingnews / Sofia Chesnokova

Stockholm-based prevention-first pet InsurTech Lassie fetches €63.1 million in Series C funding

Rahul Raj / eu-startups - Lassie, a Stockholm-based prevention-first pet insurer, today announced that it has raised €63.2 million ($75 million) in Series C funding to double down on AI, expand across Europe, and scale faster. The round included participation from Balderton Capita…

#startups #vc #innovation #digitalhealth #health #business #europe #eu

Lassie Raises $75M In Series C Round To Expand Pet Care Services In Europe

23 days / startuprise / Kailee Rainse

Stockholm-based prevention-first pet InsurTech Lassie fetches €63.1 million in Series C funding

23 days / eu-startups / Rahul Raj

Balderton backs pet startup Lassie’s $75m Series C

23 days / sifted

Lassie raised $75M to turn pet insurance into a daily health and rewards app

23 days / techfundingnews / Sofia Chesnokova

Lassie closes $75M to scale pet care services across Europe

23 days / tech / Tamara Djurickovic

OpenAI researcher quits over slippery slope of ChatGPT ads

James Farrell / siliconangle - OpenAI researcher Zoë Hitzig says she left her position on Monday, resigning over the recent introduction of advertisements inside ChatGPT and what she believes is a move in the wrong direction for the company. In a guest essay in The New York Times title…

#techpolicy #openai #aiethics #genai #business #chatgpt #jobs #ads #advertising #research

OpenAI Sells Your Secrets. Musk Sells the Moon.

22 days / implicator / Marcus Schuler

OpenAI Wants Advertisers To Prompt To Create Ads & Skip Agencies

23 days / seroundtable / barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)

AI researcher says 'world is in peril' and quits to study poetry

23 days / bbc

OpenAI Researcher Quits Over Ads, Backlash to Discord, and Social Media Addiction Trial | Tech Today video

23 days / cnet / Owen Poole

OpenAI researcher quits over slippery slope of ChatGPT ads

23 days / siliconangle / James Farrell

OpenAI Gutted Its Safety Teams. The Ads Arrived on Schedule.

23 days / implicator / Harkaram Grewal

OpenAI researcher quits over ChatGPT ads, warns of "Facebook" path

23 days / arstechnica / Benj Edwards

OpenAI researcher quit over ads because she doesn't trust her former employer to keep its own promises

23 days / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

A “QuitGPT” campaign is urging people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions

23 days / reddit / /u/MetaKnowing

Anthropic promises its datacenters totally won't drive up your utility bill

Tobias Mann / theregister - Compute it leases from Amazon, MIcrosoft, and Google... that's another story Model-maker and SaaS-y AI outfit Anthropic has committed to covering any increases in energy prices paid by consumers caused by its power-hungry datacenters.…

#ai #cloud #anthropic #genai #energy #business #datacenter #economy #technology

Anthropic To Cover Costs of Electricity Price Increases From Its Data Centers

22 days / slashdot / msmash

Anthropic promises to pay for electricity price increases due to it's AI data centers — firm to pay 100% of its grid infrastructure costs, produce new power sources as sector predicted to hit 50 GW in coming years

23 days / tomshardware

New Anthropic policy ensures ratepayers do not fund AI infrastructure

23 days / dataconomy / Emre Çıtak

Anthropic vows to protect consumers from rising electricity costs

23 days / siliconangle / Mike Wheatley

What a nice thing to say! It also means absolutely nothing. Anthropic doesn’t own or even lease data centers and thus does not pay power bills on anything other than its office space [contains quote post or other embedded content]

23 days / bsky / @edzitron.com

Anthropic promises its datacenters totally won't drive up your utility bill

23 days / theregister / Tobias Mann

Anthropic says it’ll try to keep its data centers from raising electricity costs

23 days / theverge / Justine Calma

China’s Zhipu AI launches new major model GLM-5 in challenge to its rivals

scmp - Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company Zhipu AI has launched its latest flagship model, the GLM-5, with a leap in coding capabilities amid a heated race among Chinese tech firms to roll out major new models ahead of the Spring Festival holiday.Zhipu…

#ai #ml #china #genai #business #deeptech #asia #compsci #technology #developertools

GLM-5 Costs 86% Less Than Claude Opus. The Safety Gap Might Cost More.

22 days / implicator / Harkaram Grewal

Zhipu AI Releases GLM-5: 744B Model Rivals Claude Opus

23 days / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

Shares jump in Chinese AI start-up Zhipu after GLM-5 launch

23 days / siliconrepublic / Suhasini Srinivasaragavan

[AINews] Z.ai GLM-5: New SOTA Open Weights LLM

23 days / latent / Latent.Space

Zhipu leads rally in Chinese AI stocks, surging 30%, as a wave of new releases hits market

23 days / cnbc

Moore Threads Achieves Day-0 Compatibility for Zhipu GLM-5 Large Model, Advancing China’s Domestic GPU Ecosystem

23 days / pandaily

China’s Zhipu AI launches new major model GLM-5 in challenge to its rivals

23 days / scmp

GLM-5: From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering

23 days / simonwillison / Simon Willison

GLM-5: From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering

23 days / ycombinator

Apple’s hyped AI overhual for Siri could be beset by delayed features

digitaltrends - Apple was eyeing a major feature overhaul for Siri with the upcoming iOS 26.4 update in March, but it seems performance issues have pushed those plans further into the future. The post Apple’s hyped AI overhual for Siri could be beset by delayed features …

#ai #voice #apple #stockmarket #business #ios #performance #technology #assistant #updates

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Technical Backend & Model Issues (3)
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Market Reaction

Apple stock takes a hit on report it’s pushing back AI Siri features — again

23 days / sherwood / Rani Molla

Technical Backend & Model Issues

Siri's AI Overhaul Delayed Again

23 days / slashdot / msmash

Siri 2.0: The Ghost of iOS Past Returns to Haunt iOS 26.4

23 days / idropnews / Jesse Hollington

Apple’s Much-Anticipated Siri Overhaul Hits A Snag, New Features To Now Roll Out In Batches

23 days / wccftech / Rohail Saleem

Testing & Staggered Rollout

Some Advanced Siri Features May Be Delayed Until iOS 27

23 days / bgr

The long-awaited Siri upgrade is being delayed yet again

23 days / dataconomy / Emre Çıtak

Long Delayed Siri Functions Are Reportedly Being Delayed Once Again Because They’re Slow and Inaccurate

23 days / gizmodo / Mike Pearl

Apple Taps Brakes on Siri AI Overhaul

23 days / pymnts / PYMNTS

Stay Patient, Apple Fans: Siri AI Delayed Again to Late 2026 at the Earliest

23 days / cnet / Tyler Lacoma

Apple's Siri revamp reportedly delayed again

23 days / ycombinator

Apple’s Siri revamp reportedly delayed… again

23 days / techcrunch / Amanda Silberling

Apple Delays Major Siri AI Upgrade as Testing Reveals Performance Snags [Report]

23 days / iclarified

Apple keeps hitting bumps with its overhauled Siri

23 days / theverge / Jay Peters

Apple’s hyped AI overhual for Siri could be beset by delayed features

23 days / digitaltrends

Siri testing isn't going well, new features probably wont ship in iOS 26.4

23 days / appleinsider

New Siri Runs Into Problems, Features Could Be Pushed to iOS 26.5 and iOS 27

23 days / macrumors / Juli Clover

Apple’s AI Siri Overhaul Hits More Roadblocks: New Details on the Delay

23 days / iphoneincanada / John Quintet

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Apple has been promising a new-and-improved, cutting-edge, AI-powered Siri since it first unveiled Apple Intelligence in 2024.

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Crypto platform BlockFills halts withdrawals

Yaël Bizouati-Kennedy / sherwood - Crypto lending and trading platform BlockFills has halted customer withdrawals amid the current market downturn, according to The Wall Street Journal, a development that recalls the broader meltdown of...

#blockchain #fintech #crypto #banking #business #bitcoin #wallet #crypto

Crypto Liquidity Provider BlockFills Halts Client Withdrawals

23 days / pymnts / PYMNTS

Crypto platform BlockFills halts withdrawals

23 days / sherwood / Yaël Bizouati-Kennedy

Susquehanna-Backed Crypto Lender BlockFills Suspends Withdrawals as Bitcoin Sinks

23 days / decrypt / Logan Hitchcock

CME-backed crypto lender BlockFills halts withdrawals, says it’s working to restore liquidity

23 days / theblock / Kyle Baird

Amazon Pharmacy to expand same-day delivery to nearly 4,500 US cities

Aisha Malik / techcrunch - The expansion will cover customers in newly served states such as Idaho and Massachusetts.

#ecommerce #digitalhealth #amazon #health #business #distributions #us #pharmaceuticals #delivery

Amazon Pharmacy to Offer Same-Day Delivery to 2,000 More Communities in 2026

23 days / cnet / Giselle Castro-Sloboda

Amazon Pharmacy’s latest move could change how you get prescriptions filled

23 days / fastcompany / Sarah Bregel

Amazon's same-day prescription deliveries are coming to even more cities

23 days / engadget / Ian Carlos Campbell

Amazon Accelerates Medical Ambitions With Faster Prescription Deliveries and AI Insights

23 days / pymnts / PYMNTS

Amazon Pharmacy to expand same-day delivery to nearly 4,500 US cities

23 days / techcrunch / Aisha Malik

Amazon is expanding same-day prescription delivery to thousands of U.S. cities

23 days / qz / Quartz Staff

Foxconn’s Scrapped LCD Factory Deal Could Hit Apple

Nehal Malik / iphoneincanada - Apple’s supply chain may be facing a new wrinkle in Japan. According to Nikkei Asia, Foxconn has withdrawn from its planned acquisition of Sharp’s second LCD factory in Kameyama, citing weak LCD prices. As a result, Sharp will halt production at the facil…

#hardware #apple #business #supplychain #asia #ipad #manufacturing #macbook #technology #japan

Foxconn’s Scrapped LCD Factory Deal Could Hit Apple

23 days / iphoneincanada / Nehal Malik

Foxconn Pulls Out of Sharp LCD Plant Deal, Potentially Disrupting Apple Panel Supply [Report]

23 days / iclarified

Apple Supplier's Plans Fall Through, Macs and iPads May Be Impacted

23 days / macrumors / Joe Rossignol

Senior engineers, including co-founders, exit xAI amid controversy

Rebecca Bellan / techcrunch - At least nine engineers, including two cofounders, have announced their exits from xAI in the past week, fueling online speculation and raising questions about stability at Musk’s AI company amid mounting controversy.