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EXCLUSIVE: Anthropic’s $2 Trillion IPO Has One Big Question for Retail Investors: Will They Get In?

EXCLUSIVE: Anthropic’s $2 Trillion IPO Has One Big Question for Retail Investors: Will They Get In?

QUICK SPARK: Trump’s $2.5 Billion Investment Week Was 88% Defense

QUICK SPARK: Trump’s $2.5 Billion Investment Week Was 88% Defense

OpenAI CFO Accidentally Calls Dots as Muse Giving Meta's AI Agent an Unexpected Shoutout in Faux Pas Moment — Shay Boloor Takes a Dig at 'Brand Differentiation'

QUICK SPARK: Trump’s $2.5 Billion Investment Week Was 88% Defense

QUICK SPARK: Trump’s $2.5 Billion Investment Week Was 88% Defense

OpenAI CFO Accidentally Calls Dots as Muse Giving Meta's AI Agent an Unexpected Shoutout in Faux Pas Moment — Shay Boloor Takes a Dig at 'Brand Differentiation'

Anthropic is 'Heart, Lungs of AI Revolution': Dan Ives Says IPO Will Lift Tech Sector

Anthropic is 'Heart, Lungs of AI Revolution': Dan Ives Says IPO Will Lift Tech Sector

OpenAI Targets $30 Billion Mega-Round After Putting IPO Plans on Hold

OpenAI Targets $30 Billion Mega-Round After Putting IPO Plans on Hold

Anthropic is 'Heart, Lungs of AI Revolution': Dan Ives Says IPO Will Lift Tech Sector

Anthropic is 'Heart, Lungs of AI Revolution': Dan Ives Says IPO Will Lift Tech Sector

OpenAI Targets $30 Billion Mega-Round After Putting IPO Plans on Hold

OpenAI Targets $30 Billion Mega-Round After Putting IPO Plans on Hold

SEC Warns Private Credit Valuations Need More Scrutiny As Market Expands

SEC Warns Private Credit Valuations Need More Scrutiny As Market Expands

Anduril Dominated Robotics Funding. But The Bigger Private-Market Opportunity May Be Elsewhere

Anduril Dominated Robotics Funding. But The Bigger Private-Market Opportunity May Be Elsewhere

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Blackstone’s $450 Billion Private Equity Business Loses Its Longtime Chief

Blackstone’s $450 Billion Private Equity Business Loses Its Longtime Chief

Blackstone private equity head Joe Baratta will leave the firm, leaving the firm with just two executives on its board.

Anthropic Launches Claude Sonnet 5.5 As AI Coding Race Accelerates

Anthropic launched Claude Sonnet 5.5, as the company works to make models cheaper and faster for software development and other tasks.

Databricks CEO Says AI Cyberattacks Are Moving Faster Than Humans Can Respond

Databricks CEO Says AI Cyberattacks Are Moving Faster Than Humans Can Respond

Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi says cybersecurity is already moving faster than human security teams can handle.

EXCLUSIVE: Treasuries Above 5% Create a New Problem for Private Equity: Why Buy Risky Assets?

EXCLUSIVE: Treasuries Above 5% Create a New Problem for Private Equity: Why Buy Risky Assets?

"At a 5% risk-free rate, private equity has to work much harder to justify locking up capital for years," a Pilot Wave exec told Benzinga.

Anthropic Claude’s Claimed Breakthrough in Biology Faces a Major Question — Scientist Says He Had Already Studied the Enzymes for 4 Years

Anthropic Claude’s Claimed Breakthrough in Biology Faces a Major Question — Scientist Says He Had Already Studied the Enzymes for 4 Years

Anthropic’s Claude enzyme discovery claim faces scrutiny after a biologist questioned whether prior research influenced the AI’s findings.

Anthropic Loses Key Court Fight With Pentagon

A federal appeals court upheld the government’s decision to exclude Anthropic from the Pentagon’s supply chain.

AI Coding Startup Cognition Tops $1 Billion Revenue Run Rate

AI Coding Startup Cognition Tops $1 Billion Revenue Run Rate

Artificial intelligence software startup Cognition has surpassed a $1 billion annualized revenue run rate.

Anthropic’s Founders Are Making a Power Grab Before Going Public

Anthropic’s Founders Are Making a Power Grab Before Going Public

Anthropic wants shareholders to approve a share structure giving founders voting control after it goes public.

Private Equity Is Pouring Money Into Publishing Again — Here’s Why

Private Equity Is Pouring Money Into Publishing Again — Here’s Why

Private equity and venture capital investors are putting more money into the publishing industry in 2026, more than double since 2025.

White House Wants First Look At OpenAI, Anthropic Models Before UK Testing

White House Wants First Look At OpenAI, Anthropic Models Before UK Testing

OpenAI and Anthropic were asked to keep their newest AI systems out of the U.K. government until U.S. officials complete their own review.

Cybersecurity Startup Island Raises $400 Million as AI Risks Fuel Investor Frenzy

Cybersecurity Startup Island Raises $400 Million as AI Risks Fuel Investor Frenzy

Island has raised $400 million in a Series F funding round that values the enterprise cybersecurity startup at $6.4 billion.

Private Markets Face a $1.2 Billion Valuation Reckoning as Airtable, Miro Expose Stale Startup Prices

Private Markets Face a $1.2 Billion Valuation Reckoning as Airtable, Miro Expose Stale Startup Prices

The acquisitions of Airtable and Miro at discounts of 88% and 92% to their last funding valuations point to a growing private-market backlog.

Private Equity Liquidity Crunch Creates $600M Opportunity For Twin Bridge

Private Equity Liquidity Crunch Creates $600M Opportunity For Twin Bridge

Twin Bridge Capital Partners is targeting up to $600 million for a new private equity vehicle focused on secondaries.