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Sweden's Legora closed a $50 million Series D extension, bringing the round to $600 million at a $5.6 billion post-money valuation. Nvidia's NVentures, Atlassian, Adams Street and Insight all participated, and ARR has crossed $100 million.
Anthropic is fielding preemptive offers to raise roughly $50 billion at a $850–$900B valuation. Investors have 48 hours to confirm allocation. A May board meeting is expected to formalize the round, lifting the AI lab past OpenAI on paper.
Runway CEO Cristóbal Valenzuela says AI video is the prequel — world models that simulate physics, causality and persistent state are next. Runway has raised ~$860M at a $5.3B valuation (Series E led by General Atlantic), going head-to-head with Google and OpenAI.
Microsoft disclosed over 20M paid Microsoft 365 Copilot seats — up from 15M in January — and said weekly engagement now matches Outlook. The number of customers buying more than 50,000 seats has quadrupled. Bayer, J&J, Mercedes and Roche each have 90K+; Accenture is rolling to 743K employees.
Google Cloud crossed $20.03B in Q1 2026 revenue (+63% YoY) but Sundar Pichai openly conceded the segment is "compute constrained in the near-term." Backlog doubled to $462B; Gemini API throughput hit 16B tokens per minute — both signals that demand has structurally outrun supply.
Satya Nadella told TechCrunch he is "ready to exploit" the restructured OpenAI partnership — Microsoft no longer owes a revenue share, the license is non-exclusive, and Azure can price OpenAI's tech to enterprise without a markup. The competitive math just changed.
OpenAI's Stargate Project — a $500B compute build-out with SoftBank, Oracle and MGX — now has visible construction at all seven US sites and a pathway to over 9 GW of capacity by 2029. The same week, OpenAI released an Intelligence Age policy paper introducing the "Right to AI".
Galaxy Digital delivered the first phase of its data center capacity to CoreWeave on Monday, expanding the Helios facility to 1.6 GW — among the largest single-site AI training capacities in North America.
Microsoft's six-year OpenAI exclusivity ended April 27. By April 28, OpenAI was on AWS — with a $138B total compute commitment. Inside the deal that rewrote AI's cloud map.
Meta signed a contract for up to 1 gigawatt of space-based solar power to feed its AI data centers, the largest commercial commitment yet to a technology that has spent 50 years on the runway.
OpenAI's models, Codex agent, and a new Bedrock Managed Agents service went live on AWS the day after Microsoft's exclusivity expired — backed by a $100B AWS compute commitment over eight years.
China's NDRC ordered Meta to unwind its $2B acquisition of Chinese-founded AI agent startup Manus on Monday after a months-long probe. Beijing previously banned co-founders Xiao Hong and Ji Yichao from leaving the country during the investigation.