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AI market research platform AlphaSense raised $350M from Vitruvian, Accenture, and others at a $7.5B valuation, up from $4B in 2024, ahead of a possible IPO (Ben Glickman/Wall Street Journal)

Ben Glickman / Wall Street Journal: AI market research platform AlphaSense raised $350M from Vitruvian, Accenture, and others at a $7.5B valuation, up from $4B in 2024, ahead of a possible IPO — Firm raises $350 million from investors including Accenture and JPMorgan's asset-management unit.

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How OpenAI, Anthropic, and AI startups are pursuing "recursive self-improvement", in a bid to build AI that can improve itself with little to no human input (Financial Times)

Financial Times: How OpenAI, Anthropic, and AI startups are pursuing “recursive self-improvement”, in a bid to build AI that can improve itself with little to no human input — Industry chiefs say technology within their grasp is the key to superintelligence. Safety experts say we're not ready.

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The US data center build-out is falling behind schedule; JP Morgan says 60%+ of data center capacity planned for completion in 2027 isn't yet under construction (Katherine Blunt/Wall Street Journal)

Katherine Blunt / Wall Street Journal: The US data center build-out is falling behind schedule; JP Morgan says 60%+ of data center capacity planned for completion in 2027 isn't yet under construction — Google, which is raising a fresh $80 billion, has a strategy for getting around the biggest bottleneck

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Israeli startup ZutaCore, which builds direct-to-chip liquid data center cooling systems, raised a $100M Series C from Mitsubishi and more at a $600M valuation (Meir Orbach/CTech)

Meir Orbach / CTech: Israeli startup ZutaCore, which builds direct-to-chip liquid data center cooling systems, raised a $100M Series C from Mitsubishi and more at a $600M valuation — Samsung, Mitsubishi Electric and Carrier back data center infrastructure company from Sderot.

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Google unveils five AI data center water commitments, including becoming water positive by 2030, local infrastructure investment, and transparency about usage (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)

Lauren Feiner / The Verge: Google unveils five AI data center water commitments, including becoming water positive by 2030, local infrastructure investment, and transparency about usage — The company promises to replenish more water than it uses by 2030. … In the face of widespread backlash to the AI data center …

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Netskope unveils AI Command Center, delivering comprehensive AI discovery and correlated risk intelligence with fully coordinated agentic response

Part of Netskope One AI Security, AI Command Center discovers, risk-assesses, and takes action on AI wherever it appears Netskope (NASDAQ: NTSK), a leader in modern security and networking for the cloud and AI era, today announced Netskope One AI Command Center, delivering comprehensive AI discovery, unified risk...

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London-based Gigaton, which is developing AI to automate industrial control systems for cement, steel, glass, and chemicals plants, raised a $26M Series A (Mike Butcher/Pathfounders)

Mike Butcher / Pathfounders: London-based Gigaton, which is developing AI to automate industrial control systems for cement, steel, glass, and chemicals plants, raised a $26M Series A — Gigaton, the London-based AI startup formerly known as Carbon Re, has raised a $26 million Series A to take on one of industry's …

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Sources: DeepSeek is set to raise ~$7.4B in its first funding round from investors including Tencent and CATL at a valuation of between ~$52B and ~$59B (Reuters)

Reuters: Sources: DeepSeek is set to raise ~$7.4B in its first funding round from investors including Tencent and CATL at a valuation of between ~$52B and ~$59B — Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is set to raise about 50 billion yuan ($7.4 billion) in its first funding round from investors including Tencent Holdings …

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Sensor Tower: ChatGPT has become the fastest app to hit 1B global MAUs by far; ChatGPT's MAUs are up 62% YoY in Q2 to date, Claude's MAUs are up 640% YoY to 56M (Harshita Mary Varghese/Reuters)

Harshita Mary Varghese / Reuters: Sensor Tower: ChatGPT has become the fastest app to hit 1B global MAUs by far; ChatGPT's MAUs are up 62% YoY in Q2 to date, Claude's MAUs are up 640% YoY to 56M — OpenAI's ChatGPT has crossed 1 billion global monthly active app users, becoming the fastest app ever to reach the...

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Delta Electronics unveils prefabricated AI modular data center that cuts deployment time by 60%

Delta Electronics said at COMPUTEX 2026 that it has launched a prefabricated AI modular data center designed to speed deployment of AI infrastructure by cutting IT build time by about 60%. The move underscores how vendors are racing to support global demand for denser, faster, and more power-efficient AI facilities.

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Gemini, OpenAI, and Anthropic evidence shows model competition shifting toward usable deployment surfaces, where inference, tooling, and reliability matter as much as releases.
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Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.8, upgrading its model class with improved performance in coding, agentic workflows, and consistency for long-running tasks.
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Anthropic has confidentially filed a draft S-1 registration statement with the SEC, marking a major milestone in the race among frontier artificial intelligence labs to go public.
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Anthropic has upgraded its model family with the release of Claude Opus 4.8, which is optimized for coding, long-running agentic tasks, and consistent professional workflows.
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Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8, upgrading its model class with enhanced performance in coding, agentic workflows, and long-running professional tasks.
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Anthropic has released its upgraded Claude Opus 4.8 model for agentic and coding tasks while expanding its Project Glasswing security program to critical infrastructure organizations across fifteen countries.
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Anthropic has confidentially submitted a draft S-1 registration statement to the Securities and Exchange Commission, marking a significant milestone in the public market evaluation of frontier artificial intelligence companies.
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Anthropic has launched Claude Opus 4.8, introducing a performance upgrade to its model class with a focus on consistency for long-running workflows, coding, and agentic tasks.
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