Quantinuum boosts its IPO to $1.46 billion as orders hit double-digit multiples of available shares
Quantinuum boosts its IPO to $1.46 billion as orders hit double-digit multiples of available shares

Quantinuum, the Honeywell-backed quantum computing company, has increased the size of its initial public offering to as much as $1.46 billion after demand from investors far exceeded the original allocation. The company is now offering 26.5 million sha…

Anthropic files confidentially for an IPO, potentially beating OpenAI to Wall Street after eclipsing it in valuation
Anthropic files confidentially for an IPO, potentially beating OpenAI to Wall Street after eclipsing it in valuation

Anthropic has confidentially submitted draft registration paperwork for an initial public offering with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the company announced in a blog post on Monday. The number of shares to be offered and the price have not be…

AI is crushing startup valuations for companies that raised before ChatGPT existed
AI is crushing startup valuations for companies that raised before ChatGPT existed

The AI boom has created a two-speed startup economy. Companies building on generative AI are raising at historically unprecedented valuations, while startups that last raised capital before ChatGPT launched in November 2022 are watching their worth col…

PLD Space raises its Kourou launch-complex investment to €35m
PLD Space raises its Kourou launch-complex investment to €35m

The Spanish launch firm says it is the first private operator to commit capital at this scale to the historic Guiana spaceport, with a first MIURA 5 flight still slated for 2026. PLD Space is putting €35m into the launch complex it is building at the G…

ASML spinout Invisix raises €20M to see inside the chips optics can’t
ASML spinout Invisix raises €20M to see inside the chips optics can’t

Modern chips have a measurement problem that sounds almost philosophical: they have become too complex to look at. As logic and memory devices stack into three dimensions and shrink to a few nanometres, the optical tools that check each layer can no lo…

20 Snap alumni launched an angel fund for the next generation of social media. They think “social” and “media” have split.
20 Snap alumni launched an angel fund for the next generation of social media. They think “social” and “media” have split.

Twenty Snap alumni have launched Ghost Angels, an angel fund backing the next generation of social media and consumer AI startups. The fund has invested in at least five companies and plans to deploy remaining capital into at least 15 more within the n…

Anthropic named eight firms selling its shares illegally. After the backlash, it quietly removed four.
Anthropic named eight firms selling its shares illegally. After the backlash, it quietly removed four.

Anthropic updated its warning about unauthorized secondary market platforms selling its shares, cutting the list from eight firms to four. The revised version names only Open Door Partners, Unicorns Exchange, Pachamama, and Upmarket. Several of the mos…

Ex-DeepMind researchers raised $50M to build AI that figures out which scientific questions are worth asking
Ex-DeepMind researchers raised $50M to build AI that figures out which scientific questions are worth asking

London-based AI lab Inherent emerged from stealth on Wednesday with a $50 million seed round co-led by Index Ventures and Radical Ventures. Nvidia’s venture arm NVentures also participated, alongside Ex/Ante, Metaplanet, Macroscopic Ventures, and Mytho…

Nvidia paid Groq $20 billion and took its top engineers. Now Groq is raising $650 million for what’s left.
Nvidia paid Groq $20 billion and took its top engineers. Now Groq is raising $650 million for what’s left.

Groq is raising $650 million from existing investors to fund its inference cloud business, Axios reported. The raise comes six months after Nvidia struck a $20 billion not-acqui-hire that paid out Groq’s investors in cash, took several senior engineers…

Parloa turns its $350 million war chest into a partnership web spanning SAP, Microsoft, and OpenAI
Parloa turns its $350 million war chest into a partnership web spanning SAP, Microsoft, and OpenAI

Parloa, the Berlin-founded AI agent management platform, has announced a wave of strategic partnerships with SAP, Microsoft, OpenAI, Five9, and Epic as it deploys the $350 million it raised in its January 2026 Series D round. The company, which builds …