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Databricks Closes $5 Billion Round at $190 Billion Valuation
Databricks raised $5 billion in funding at a $190 billion valuation, representing a 42% increase in six months. The company has achieved a revenue run-rate exceeding $7 billion with year-over-year growth above 80%.
Anthropic’s $2trn IPO is priced below what AI stocks already fetch
Anthropic investors project the company could reach a $2 trillion valuation in an autumn initial public offering, exceeding SpaceX's $1.77 trillion IPO valuation from June. Anthropic has not confirmed any listing plans or valuation figures itself.
DeepSeek built a Claude Code rival, then quadrupled its prices
DeepSeek increased API prices for DeepSeek-V4-Pro from $0.87 to $3.96 per million output tokens at peak rates starting August 16, while V4-Flash prices rose from $0.28 to $1.32. Off-peak rates were set at half the peak price for both models.
Google’s new Tensor G6 brings performance, efficiency, and post-quantum security to the Pixel 11 series
Google's Tensor G6 chip delivers 25% faster browsing and 20% better power efficiency alongside a TPU with 50% more compute capacity. The Pixel 11 models include a new Titan M3 security coprocessor that adopts NIST's post-quantum cryptography standards for the first time on a Google phone.
Cisco’s AI Outlook Disappoints Investors Seeking Bigger Payoff
Cisco projects $7.5 billion in AI data center sales for the current fiscal year, below the $9.3 billion in AI-related orders accumulated over the past year. Investors viewed this forecast as disappointing given the company's position as the largest networking gear supplier.
Uber is working on letting 10-year-olds ride alone
Uber's iOS app code shows development of a feature allowing children aged 10 to 12 to ride alone with a trusted adult contact and optional requirement for an adult at pickup. The company stated this is not yet a live product, with its current teen offering limited to ages 13 to 17.
Pixel 11 puts Gemini in the operating system, weeks before Siri gets the same models
Gemini Intelligence is now integrated directly into Pixel 11's operating system to function across apps rather than confined to a chatbot interface. Google launches this capability weeks before Apple rebuilds Siri using Google's models, while device chief Rick Osterloh confirmed memory shortages will increase Pixel prices.
Nvidia is building a trillion-parameter open model, and it would still be smaller than China’s
Nvidia released Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a 30 billion parameter mixture-of-experts model with three billion active parameters and a one million token context window. The model combines Mamba-2, MoE, and attention layers, with weights available on Hugging Face and ModelScope.
Crypto impersonation scams grew 1,400% as AI supercharged fraud
Impersonation scams increased 1,400% year over year in 2025, with average payments rising over 600%. The average crypto payment across all scam categories climbed from $782 to $2,764.
SpaceXAI's Grok Bot turns agents into persistent digital coworkers that can operate your apps for $120-per-month
Persistent AI agents called Grok Bots can operate software applications continuously and autonomously across multiple platforms for $120 per month. Each Bot accesses applications through its own computer environment, continues working when the user's laptop is closed, and returns when needing approval or completing assignments.