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.
Tether Investments proposed merging Twenty One Capital (XXI), Jack Mallers' Strike, and miner Elektron Energy into one listed entity. The combined company would hold 43,500+ BTC, mine ~5% of hashrate at <$60K all-in, and run Strike — XXI popped 8%.
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.
MoonPay acquired Israeli key-management firm Sodot in an all-stock deal worth roughly $100M and launched MoonPay Institutional, led by former CFTC Acting Chair Caroline D. Pham. Sodot already secures $50B+ in transactions for clients including eToro, BitGo, Flow Traders and Exodus.
Former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal's Parallel Web Systems raised a $100M Series B led by Sequoia Capital at a $2B valuation — more than double its Series A mark from five months ago. Customers include Harvey, Attio, Modal and Rogo, and Sequoia's Andrew Reed joins the board.
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.
Liquid, the always-on trading platform backed by Paradigm, closed an $18M round led by Left Lane Capital and Neo to expand cross-asset coverage and U.S. distribution.
AlphaGo architect David Silver came out of stealth with a $1.1B seed at $5.1B valuation — Europe's largest ever — to build AI that learns from experience instead of human data.
Aave-led DeFi United relief fund crossed $300M Monday after Consensys and Joseph Lubin pledged 30,000 ETH. Lido is sending up to 2,500 stETH, Compound up to 3,000 ETH, EtherFi 5,000 ETH — all to restore rsETH backing after Kelp DAO's $292M exploit.
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.