☕ Anthropic acquires a core developer tool used by OpenAI for $300M & Elon Musk loses his lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman.
Meta plans to cut 10% of workforce & More.
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Anthropic has acquired Stainless for more than $300 million, bringing in one of the most important developer tools used by companies like OpenAI and Google to automatically generate and maintain software SDKs. The deal shows that winning in AI is no longer just about building better models — it is increasingly about owning the tools and infrastructure developers rely on every day.
Meta Platforms is restructuring nearly 20% of its workforce through layoffs and internal transfers as it shifts aggressively toward AI, moving thousands of employees into teams focused on building agents that can automate human work. The move highlights how major tech companies are reorganizing around a simple belief: the next phase of AI is not just assisting employees, but replacing large portions of repetitive knowledge work altogether.
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STARTUPS RAISING MILLIONS
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PRE-SEED
AEON, a Hong Kong-based infrastructure platform for the agentic economy, raised $8M in Pre-Seed funding. The round was led by YZi Labs, with participation from IDG Capital, HashKey Capital, Stanford Blockchain Builders Fund, and others.
Cimento AI, a Salt Lake City-based human risk management platform, raised $3M in Pre-Seed funding. The round was co-led by Bowery Capital and Indie.vc, with participation from angels from Cloudflare, Nvidia, Okta, and Palo Alto Networks.
Furientis, a Los Angeles-based defense technology startup developing cost-effective defensive munitions, raised $5M in Pre-Seed funding. The round was led by Silent Ventures, with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners, SV Angel, and repeat founders from Anduril, Erebor, and Armada.
Hacktron, a San Francisco-based cybersecurity startup, raised $2.9M in Pre-Seed funding. The round was led by Crane Venture Partners, with participation from Project Europe, Vercel Ventures, Plug and Play Ventures, and others.
SEED
Segura, a Rio de Janeiro-based insurtech startup, raised $8M in Seed funding. The round was co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Kaszek, with participation from Big_Bets and several angel investors.
Shyld AI, a Sunnyvale-based healthcare intelligence company, raised $13.4M in Seed funding. The round was led by Aulis Capital.
GROWTH
Nord Quantique, a Quebec-based quantum computing company, raised $30M in growth equity funding, achieving a $1.4B valuation. Backers included BDC, Fidelity Investments Canada, Quantonation, and Real Ventures.
Vortex Imaging, an Israel-based computational ultrasound company, raised $12M in funding. Investors included 10D Ventures, Entrée Capital, Connecticut Innovations, and others.
Roxberry, a Columbus-based soda brand for kids, raised an undisclosed amount in funding. Investor details were not disclosed.
Wonderlab Bio, a Boston-based regenerative medicine company, received an investment from Jetstream Venture Fund.
LemFi, a London-based financial platform, received an undisclosed investment from Tether.
Gradiant, a Boston-based water treatment company, raised Series E funding at a $2B valuation. The round was led by Safar Partners and Hostplus Superannuation Fund.
Sprouts.ai, a Palo Alto-based AI-powered GTM intelligence platform, raised $9M in Pre-Series A funding. The round was led by True Global Ventures and Accel.
Tomorrow.io, a Boston-based weather intelligence platform, raised an additional $35M in Series F funding. Backers included Pitango and Harel Insurance.
Transient.AI, a NYC-based AI-native investment management platform, raised an undisclosed amount in Series A funding. Backers included NEXT Investors.
Blink, a Boston-based employee experience platform, raised $17M in funding. The round was led by Enlightened Hospitality Investments (EHI).
Searchable, a London-based AI performance marketing platform, raised $14M in funding at an $85M valuation. The round was led by Headline.
Multiverse, a London-based AI and tech adoption platform, raised $70M in primary funding. The round was led by Schroders Capital, with participation from General Catalyst, Lightspeed, and Index Ventures.
Nof1, an AI research lab focused on financial markets, raised $15M in funding. The round was co-led by SUI Group and Karatage Opportunities.
Xpanner, a California-based construction automation company, raised $18M in Series B bridge funding. The round was led by Korea Investment Partners.
Fasset, a Dubai-based stablecoin neobank, raised $51M in Series B funding. Backers included SBI Group, Investcorp, and Arz Portföy.
Elliptic, a London-based digital asset decisioning company, raised $120M in Series D funding at a $670M valuation. The round was led by One Peak.
Onramp, a Dallas-based bitcoin-focused financial services platform, raised $12.5M in Series A funding at a $135M valuation. The round was led by Early Riders.
Greenpixie, a London-based cloud and AI efficiency startup, raised £4.7M in Pre-Series A funding. The round was led by VERBUND X Ventures.
Cosmico, a Milan-based freelance marketplace, raised €12M in Series B funding. The round was led by P101 SGR.
Edumentors, a London-based AI-enabled tutoring marketplace, raised over $4M in funding. Backers included Yazan Al Homsi.
Arkeus, a Washington, DC-based defense technology company, raised $18M in Series A funding. The round was led by QIC Ventures.
NinaMED, a Melbourne-based medical device company, raised $13.75M in funding. The round was led by SPRIM Global Investments.
Roadrunner, a San Francisco-based AI-native revenue infrastructure company, raised $27M in combined Seed and Series A funding. The Seed was led by Kleiner Perkins, and the Series A was led by Founders Fund.
NEW VCs IN THE MARKET
🏦 Venture Capital Updates.
Meridian Ventures, a U.S.-based venture firm founded by Harvard Business School graduates Devon Gethers and Karlton Haney, has launched a $35 million debut fund to back pre-seed and seed-stage startups founded by MBA and deferred MBA entrepreneurs. The firm focuses on enterprise technology across sectors like AI, fintech, logistics, and healthcare, and plans to write initial checks of $500,000 to $750,000 into ambitious founders building frontier technologies in the United States.
Haun Ventures, a Menlo Park, CA-based venture capital firm, closed Fund II, at over $1 billion. Institutional investors include sovereign wealth funds, endowments, foundations, pensions, financial institutions, and other global organizations.
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Elon Musk loses his lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman
Elon Musk lost his lawsuit against OpenAI, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and Microsoft after a unanimous jury ruled that his claims were filed too late under California law.
Musk alleged that OpenAI had “stolen a charity” by shifting from a nonprofit research lab to a for-profit business. The verdict removes a major legal threat to OpenAI as the company prepares for a potential IPO.
After the decision, Musk said he would appeal to the Ninth Circuit and argued that Altman and Brockman enriched themselves by converting OpenAI into a highly valuable commercial company.
Alexa+ now generates custom AI podcasts
Amazon rolled out a feature called “Alexa Podcasts” on Monday, letting Alexa+ users in the U.S. ask the assistant to create a podcast episode about any topic they want, ready in minutes.
Users skip uploading documents or writing scripts, and instead Alexa+ researches the topic, drafts an overview, and lets people adjust the length, tone, and focus before AI-generated host voices narrate the episode.
Finished episodes trigger a notification on Echo Show devices and the Alexa app, where they are saved under “Music” and “More,” and pull real-time information from partners like the Associated Press, Reuters, and The Washington Post.
Google and Blackstone launch AI cloud venture to meet surging data center demand
Google and Blackstone are creating a new AI cloud venture to provide data center capacity and access to Google’s custom TPU chips. Blackstone will invest $5 billion in equity, with total investment potentially reaching $25 billion.
The venture aims to bring 500 megawatts of data center capacity online by 2027 and will operate as a compute-as-a-service platform. Benjamin Sloss, a longtime Google executive, will serve as CEO.
The partnership reflects soaring demand for AI infrastructure as Big Tech spending on data centers and compute is expected to exceed $700 billion in 2026. It also gives enterprises another way to access Google’s increasingly popular AI chips.
Apple's revamped Siri to auto-delete chats
Apple’s reworked Siri app, set to arrive with iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27, will automatically delete chat conversations by default as part of a privacy-first design the company plans to highlight at WWDC.
Users will reportedly be able to keep Siri chats for 30 days, one year, or forever, matching the options already found in Apple’s Messages app, with tighter limits on what memory can persist and for how long.
Mark Gurman reports that Apple will argue its approach differs from rivals that train models on user interactions and cloud-stored histories, and the new Siri is expected to launch with a “beta” tag and a toggle to exit it.
xAI fails to pay employees promised $420 for their tax data
Two months after xAI asked employees to share their personal US tax returns to train Grok in exchange for a $420 payment per submission, none of the promised money has actually been handed out, Bloomberg reports.
The collection drive was timed to the April 15 tax deadline, framed internally as a way to feed Grok real, complex filings that xAI cannot license at scale or scrape from the open web.
Employee returns contain salary, dependents, addresses, financial-account positions and Social Security numbers, raising questions about data-handling promises, while the total bill for paying every submitter sits in the low six figures.
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☕ Other News
Google researchers queue for TPU capacity
Google’s own AI researchers, including teams at DeepMind, are now waiting in line for TPU compute access because the chips are being sold in bulk to outside customers like Anthropic and Meta, Bloomberg reported Monday.
The squeeze stems from Google’s $40bn Anthropic deal covering five gigawatts of TPU capacity and up to one million Ironwood chips over five years, plus a separate Broadcom-mediated 3.5GW supply line starting in 2027.
Bloomberg notes researchers including DeepMind’s Ioannis Antonoglou have left for startups as internal compute gets harder to secure, with Oren Etzioni saying access is rationed by managerial seniority rather than the economics applied to external contracts.
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