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Sun, Oct 18
As Anthropic's revenue growth slows before its IPO, some investors cut valuation expectations to about $1.5 trillion
When a model company goes public, investors buy not just revenue growth but a huge compute bill signed in advance.
Thu, Oct 15
Modal raises a $750 million Series D at a $15.75 billion valuation as annualized revenue tops $1 billion
The more agents there are, the bigger the business of giving them somewhere to work; sandboxes, once an overlooked piece of infrastructure, are becoming a billion-dollar revenue line.
CoreWeave bond yields near 15% and its stock falls 15.5% as AI infrastructure debt rattles investors
However large the order book, a company has to survive until the cash arrives; the bond market is now using interest rates to reprice how fast AI infrastructure can expand.
Apple closes above a $5 trillion market value for the first time, the second company after Nvidia
On a day when companies borrowing to build compute were sold off and Apple, which sells the hardware, hit a record, the market was sorting out who carries AI's costs and who collects its demand.
Sun, Sep 20
Investment & Financing Weekly (Week 3 of September): Temporal closes a $550M round, turning "agents that stay up and running long-term" into infrastructure
Once agents touch payments, approvals and fulfillment, durable execution moves from a developer-tool budget into enterprise infrastructure.
Fri, Sep 18
Anthropic says Claude now leads 26% of AI R&D work, up from 1% in six months
Claude's internal R&D value is shifting from how much code it writes to how many tasks it can close.
Sun, Sep 13
Fab2 Raises $500M to Turn Small Chip Fabs Into a Repeatable Product
The AI compute boom is rewarding methods that compress fab timelines, making integrated equipment and process development venture-backable again.
Celero Raises $275M as AI Clusters Turn Optical Links Into a Bottleneck
Data centers do not lack isolated compute; they lack bandwidth that makes compute work together, making optical interconnects a new destination for AI hardware capital.
Mon, Sep 7
DeepSeek to run inference on 160,000 Ascend 950DT chips in Ulanqab while training stays on Nvidia
Training on Nvidia, inference on domestic silicon — where that line sits is the real progress bar for China's compute self-sufficiency.
Sun, Sep 6
Crusoe Reportedly Raises About $3 Billion to Expand AI Infrastructure
Power access and construction speed can win orders. Sustaining a delivery premium requires converting commissioning schedules into cash receipts.
Fri, Aug 28
Nvidia closes up 8.74%, adding $442 billion in market value in a single day
Nvidia's quarterly guidance now functions as a macro data release; one company's earnings call sets the positioning for everyone else.
Sun, Aug 16
AI Cloud Company Volta Emerges from Stealth with $300M Raise
$300 million in equity has levered up a $5 billion financing pool and $10 billion in contracts — new cloud providers are already competing on capital structure.