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New Constructs puts Anthropic's equity at as little as $144bn, 93% below the $2tn it is reportedly targeting for its IPO. That is its lowest scenario, built from reports of leaked financials because the prospectus was filed confidentially.
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General Atlantic plans a first-half 2027 IPO at a valuation of up to $10 billion, the Financial Times reported. Cryptopolitan says the date slipped from 2026, but one firm's calendar is thin evidence on how fast the alternative-manager window is reopening.
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Microagi's CEO says the company pays more than 35,000 people in over 15 countries to film physical tasks, Business Insider reported. Robotics is short of training data, so startups are buying footage of skilled work such as private cooking.
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A 308-word voluntary White House pact leaves AI labs to monitor their own safety progress, Fast Company reported. Investors at San Francisco's Tech Week welcomed that stance. Anyone deploying agents is left to write their own controls.
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US private equity deal value fell 13.6% and exit value fell 14.1% year over year in Q3 2026, according to PitchBook data. Analyst Kyle Walters says asset growth is closer to half its old 12% pace, a better test of a structural slowdown than one quarter's decline.
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OpenAI and Anthropic raised more than $200 billion of the record $515.8 billion invested in US startups through September, PitchBook-NVCA data shows. With IPOs slipping, a venture-backed vendor that exits is likelier to be sold, often below its last private price.
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Anthropic has taken $130 billion from 300 institutions without publishing financials. Bankers have discussed a listing at $2 trillion, and the paperwork due in the coming weeks is the first document that will show what the money bought.
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RobCo staff sold most of a $40 million share block at terms valuing the Munich robot maker above $1 billion, twice January's price. Most of the cash went to the sellers, so the figure measures demand for physical AI more than it funds RobCo.
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Founders who seed-strap on small sums from friends, family and members skip the Series A, as 62% of US companies seeded in 2022 have done, according to Carta. The price of keeping growth targets in their own hands, says Precursor Ventures' Charles Hudson, is fewer investors for the next few million.
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Superhuman's purchase of AI detector GPTZero returned at least 10 times the $13.5 million it raised, a source told Fortune. Treated as a price, that puts a floor of $135 million under a deal with undisclosed terms.
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Moneybox ran a 45 million pound secondary share sale aimed at long-serving staff as the average startup's wait to list reached 11 years, up from 6.9 in 2014. Outside buyers fund those payouts, so founders can reward tenure without spending company cash.
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Modulate raised $25 million to put models that analyze raw call audio, not transcripts, in front of more developers. Its pitch to teams running voice agents is a separate layer that spots cloned voices and grades how agents handle callers.
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The flag rate on US-based remote IT roles climbed from 11% in the third quarter of 2024 to an estimated 47%, which prices candidate verification into every application even as venture money for identity startups fell to $0.3bn in a quarter.
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OpenAI says its new ChatGPT for Financial Services pairs built-in financial data with GPT-6 Astra reasoning for research, modeling and client materials. The announcement does not say where that data comes from.
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OpenAI's financial-services ChatGPT arrives with market data licensed from the vendors banks already pay, and without a published price the buy-or-keep comparison cannot be run. Its own benchmark still misses about three answers in ten.
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The Financial Times says the suggestion came from investors: $1.2 trillion, 41% above the round OpenAI closed in March and 1,200 times the annualized advertising revenue it disclosed last month. The talks are early.
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PitchBook counts fundraising by climate-specialist venture firms down nearly 40% in 2025 from 2024. On stage at Climate Week NYC, Dawn Lippert and Mike Schroepfer described energy and critical-minerals rounds filling up with generalist money.
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Blackstone's perpetual equity fund has gathered about $25 billion since January 2024, and holders can redeem up to 3% of net asset value a quarter. Its real estate fund ran past that limit for several quarters in 2022 and 2023.
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Anthropic and OpenAI each launched a model on Tuesday that repackages capability their flagships already had. The faster release calendar behind those launches is mostly a pricing story for the people who buy them.
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Of Dollars And Data walks a quarter-point grant through vesting, dilution, preferences and exercise costs. Vesting ends years before a typical exit, and most of the markdown comes from events beyond the employee's control.
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