Nvidia deploys a $500 billion war chest to dominate AI beyond chip sales, backing OpenAI's Ohio data center and partnering with Wall Street to finance AI infrastructure as CEO Jensen Huang positions the company as the financial backbone of the global AI buildout.
Anthropic is restructuring its voting power ahead of a landmark IPO, granting CEO Dario Amodei and co-founders supervoting stock to maintain control despite Amodei holding just 2% ownership, mirroring dual-class structures used by Meta and SpaceX.
The DOJ is investigating Andreessen Horowitz for potential antitrust violations after partners took board seats at competing AI data firms Databricks and Fivetran, raising concerns under a century-old law banning interlocking directorates.
Andrew Yang demands $15,000 annual payments for Americans as AI disrupts the economy, arguing citizens deserve a share of profits generated from their personal data, while leaving the door open for a 2028 presidential run.
AI chip startup Etched secures $700M at a $21B valuation and ships its first inference rack to Jane Street, backed by Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, and Blackstone, as it scales toward Gigawatt-level infrastructure to bring frontier AI models to the masses.
AI coding startups are securing billions in fresh funding as enterprise adoption explodes, with Google reporting 75% of its code now AI-written, but analysts warn a consolidation reckoning looms as companies narrow down to just a few dominant platforms.
AI coding startup Cognition is seeking a staggering $40 billion valuation in a new funding round, just three months after raising $1 billion at $26 billion, as its annualized revenue nearly doubles to approach $1 billion.
Stripe acquires AI gateway startup OpenRouter in a deal exceeding $7 billion, securing a platform that gives 8 million users unified access to over 400 AI models just months after OpenRouter's $1.3 billion Series B valuation.
AI bubble fears intensify as the 'Tinker Bell problem' threatens to deflate the boom if public belief wavers, yet enterprise demand remains resilient with hyperscaler earnings and compute shortages signaling real underlying value despite viral cost myths and growing pressure for measurable ROI.
Stripe acquires AI startup OpenRouter for over $7 billion, marking a massive strategic pivot beyond payments as the fintech giant moves to dominate the rapidly growing AI infrastructure space.