[태그:] AI Industry
DeepSeek Doubled to $45B in Weeks — Beijing Funded It
DeepSeek’s first VC round vaults the Chinese AI lab to $45B — double its $20B mark. Big Fund leads, Tencent and Alibaba in talks. Why it matters.
Nvidia Just Picked a Fight With Sequoia’s $11B Bet
Legora hit a $5.6B valuation with Nvidia and Atlassian backing as 1,000+ law firms onboarded in 18 months. Why Big Law’s $1T market is about to crack.
Google Chose the Pentagon Over Its Own Engineers
Google signs a classified AI deal with the Pentagon allowing ‘any lawful use’ — while 950 employees protest and Anthropic faces a federal lawsuit for saying no. The defense AI…
SpaceX Killed a $2B Fundraise With One Phone Call
SpaceX offered Cursor a $60B buyout option mid-fundraise, pairing its Colossus supercomputer with the $2B-ARR coding tool. Here is why this reshapes the AI coding wars.
This $0.14 Model Just Embarrassed OpenAI and Google
DeepSeek V4 delivers near-frontier performance at $0.14/M tokens — 1/6th the cost of GPT-5.5 and Opus 4.7. The open-weights giant is rewriting AI economics.
They Built One AI Engineer — Now They’re Worth $25 Billion
Cognition AI is in talks to raise hundreds of millions at a $25B valuation — up from $10.2B just seven months ago. Inside the meteoric rise of Devin, the AI…
They Spent Billions on AI — Then Fired 20,000 Workers
Meta and Microsoft cut 20,000 jobs in one week while spending record billions on AI. Nearly 50% of 2026 tech layoffs are AI-driven. Here is what it means.
Meta Turned Its Own Employees Into AI Training Data
Meta is installing mandatory tracking software on US employees’ laptops to capture every keystroke and mouse click for AI training. No opt-out allowed. Here’s why it matters.
Google Is Paying Consultants $750M to Pick Its Side
Google commits $750M at Cloud Next 2026 to finance partners’ agentic AI builds. Accenture built 450+ agents, KPMG pledged $100M, PwC $400M. The cloud wars just moved to consulting.
Bezos Left Amazon to Build a $38B AI Lab
Jeff Bezos is raising $10B for Project Prometheus, a physical AI lab now valued at $38B. BlackRock and JPMorgan are backing his biggest bet since Amazon.
