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Breaking Anthropic launches Claude Science, AI workbench integrating 60+ scientific databases for drug discovery Market OpenAI proposes 5% U.S. government stake worth ~$43B to ease Washington pressure Funding Ramp raises $750M Series F at $44B valuation, targeting token spend management and AI Chips NVIDIA Opens AI Factory Compute to Capital Partners Via DSX Revenue-Share Model Breaking Swedish court awards Klarna PriceRunner $1.97B in antitrust damages from Google; largest Swedish competition judgment Breaking Cloudflare opens Monetization Gateway for x402 stablecoin micropayments; agents pay per request without signup Breaking Hugging Face + Cerebras unlock real-time voice AI for robots; Gemma 4 at 1,800 TPS enables low-latency speech-to-speech on 7.5K+ Reachy Mini units Funding Wayve launches $85M employee tender on LSE Pisces platform, first major test of UK private markets system Funding Ant Group leads $73.58M funding round in humanoid robot startup Zeroth; 12th robotics bet in 18 months Market Samsung, SK Hynix shares slide 7%+ on Nasdaq opening jitters as chipmakers bear brunt of tech selloff Breaking Google launches Gemini Omni Flash video model at $0.10/sec and Nano Banana 2 Lite image model into GA Chips Tesla hires Gary Jiang, 17-year Intel veteran, as Director of Terafab chip project Market Meta launches cloud business to sell excess AI compute capacity; stock +8% Market NVIDIA projects $1 trillion AI infrastructure demand through 2027; doubles prior forecast Chips Samsung HBM4 surpasses $1B in sales within 4 months; projects $10B full-year run rate Funding Oxmiq Labs raises $35M Series A for licensable GPU IP, eyes Arm-like architecture Research ChatGPT crosses 1 billion monthly active users, fastest consumer app milestone in history Chips NVIDIA and TSMC mark first US-made Blackwell wafer in Phoenix, plan $500B infrastructure spend over 4 years Funding Oxmiq raises $35M Series A for RISC-V GPU IP, expands data center architecture focus Breaking Klarna's PriceRunner wins $1.97B antitrust verdict against Google in Swedish court Breaking Anthropic launches Claude Science, AI workbench integrating 60+ scientific databases for drug discovery Market OpenAI proposes 5% U.S. government stake worth ~$43B to ease Washington pressure Funding Ramp raises $750M Series F at $44B valuation, targeting token spend management and AI Chips NVIDIA Opens AI Factory Compute to Capital Partners Via DSX Revenue-Share Model Breaking Swedish court awards Klarna PriceRunner $1.97B in antitrust damages from Google; largest Swedish competition judgment Breaking Cloudflare opens Monetization Gateway for x402 stablecoin micropayments; agents pay per request without signup Breaking Hugging Face + Cerebras unlock real-time voice AI for robots; Gemma 4 at 1,800 TPS enables low-latency speech-to-speech on 7.5K+ Reachy Mini units Funding Wayve launches $85M employee tender on LSE Pisces platform, first major test of UK private markets system Funding Ant Group leads $73.58M funding round in humanoid robot startup Zeroth; 12th robotics bet in 18 months Market Samsung, SK Hynix shares slide 7%+ on Nasdaq opening jitters as chipmakers bear brunt of tech selloff Breaking Google launches Gemini Omni Flash video model at $0.10/sec and Nano Banana 2 Lite image model into GA Chips Tesla hires Gary Jiang, 17-year Intel veteran, as Director of Terafab chip project Market Meta launches cloud business to sell excess AI compute capacity; stock +8% Market NVIDIA projects $1 trillion AI infrastructure demand through 2027; doubles prior forecast Chips Samsung HBM4 surpasses $1B in sales within 4 months; projects $10B full-year run rate Funding Oxmiq Labs raises $35M Series A for licensable GPU IP, eyes Arm-like architecture Research ChatGPT crosses 1 billion monthly active users, fastest consumer app milestone in history Chips NVIDIA and TSMC mark first US-made Blackwell wafer in Phoenix, plan $500B infrastructure spend over 4 years Funding Oxmiq raises $35M Series A for RISC-V GPU IP, expands data center architecture focus Breaking Klarna's PriceRunner wins $1.97B antitrust verdict against Google in Swedish court
Funding

Anthropic files confidentially for IPO at $965B valuation after $65B Series H; leapfrogs OpenAI

Anthropic confidentially filed for an IPO with the SEC on June 1, 2026, after closing a $65 billion Series H funding round at a $965 billion post-money valuation, surpassing OpenAI for the first time. The Series H was led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia Capital, with co-leadership from Capital Group, Coatue, D1 Capital, GIC, ICONIQ, and XN. The round includes $15 billion of previously committed hyperscaler investments, including $5 billion from Amazon (with up to $20 billion more available). Anthropic has raised approximately $125 billion in total funding to date.

The filing positions Anthropic ahead of OpenAI in the race to public markets. OpenAI, despite raising $122 billion in private funding (bringing its valuation to $852 billion in March), remains private. Anthropic plans to use proceeds to advance safety and interpretability research, expand compute capacity to meet Claude demand, and scale products and partnerships. The company achieved $47 billion in run-rate revenue in May 2026 and is expected to reach operating profitability with a 130% revenue surge. The May 28 launch of Claude Opus 4.8 improved agentic task, advanced coding, and honesty/self-correction capabilities.

For practitioners tracking frontier AI funding: Anthropic's $965B valuation and first-mover IPO advantage signal investor confidence in Claude's enterprise traction and compute cost economics. However, near-trillion-dollar public valuations require sustained revenue growth and margin expansion to justify multiples that assume decades of high-margin frontier-model licensing. Anthropic committed to $100 billion+ cumulative compute spend over the next 10 years across AWS, SpaceX, Google/Broadcom partnerships, locking in infrastructure capacity but also tying long-term growth to those suppliers' execution. Confidential filing gives Anthropic a regulatory review window before full prospectus disclosure, reducing time pressure and allowing SEC feedback before public pricing.

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