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- Anthropic Picks Nasdaq for an October IPO and Tells Investors Q2 Was a Second Straight Profit
On September 13, 2026, Business Insider and Reuters reported Anthropic selected Nasdaq for a potential October IPO, while the FT said the company told investors adjusted operating income was positive for a second consecutive quarter on $11.5 billion of Q2 revenue. Confidential S-1 already on file; not a pricing.
- Paul Christiano Joins the OpenAI Foundation Board and Safety Committee
On September 9, 2026, OpenAI said Paul Christiano—ARC founder, former OpenAI alignment lead, and CAISI/NIST senior advisor—joins the OpenAI Foundation Board as a non-voting observer on the Group PBC board and the Foundation Safety and Security Committee with chair Zico Kolter.
- Mistral Raises €3 Billion Series D as Europe’s Listed-Scale Open-Weight Bet
On September 8, 2026, Mistral AI announced a €3 billion Series D to keep training open-weight frontier models in Europe, with Samsung among the names on a round that secondaries put above a €21 billion valuation.
- OpenAI Will Cut Off Cursor After SpaceX’s $60 Billion Close, Effective November 12
On August 28, 2026, OpenAI said it will stop serving Cursor after SpaceX’s acquisition of Anysphere closes, with a proposed November 12 cutoff. Cursor CEO Michael Truell said OpenAI is about 5% of Cursor traffic; Anthropic’s Tom Brown said Claude compute will fill the gap.
- Anthropic Prepares Super-Voting Stock for Amodei Ahead of a Possible September IPO
On August 18, 2026, The Information reported Anthropic is preparing a new class of extra-voting stock for CEO Dario Amodei and other co-founders—the first time its leaders would hold super-votes—to insulate them from public shareholders, with an IPO window as soon as late September; Anthropic did not comment.
- Anthropic Tells Investors Its July Run Rate Hit $65 Billion
On August 17, 2026, Bloomberg and CNBC reported Anthropic told IPO investors over the weekend that annualized revenue reached $65 billion at the end of July—about 7× a year ago and up from a $47 billion May run rate—alongside the already-reported preliminary Q2 print above $11.5 billion.
- Anthropic Tells IPO Investors Q2 Revenue Topped $11.5 Billion
On August 14, 2026, Bloomberg reported documents showing Anthropic’s preliminary second-quarter revenue exceeded $11.5 billion—more than 14× the $787 million in Q2 2025 and up from $4.73 billion in Q1 2026—with positive adjusted operating income; figures are preliminary and Anthropic declined to comment.
- Anthropic in Talks to Buy Decart AI for About $6 Billion
On August 13, 2026, Bloomberg reported Anthropic is in talks to acquire Israeli startup Decart AI—real-time generative video, world models, and GPU-efficiency tech—for about $6 billion, which would be Anthropic’s largest known deal; the talks are early and could still fall through.
- OpenAI Appoints Wiz’s Dali Rajic as Chief Revenue Officer
On August 13, 2026, OpenAI named Dali Rajic—former president and COO of Wiz, recently acquired by Google—as chief revenue officer, succeeding Denise Dresser after about eight months as the lab cites more than one billion weekly ChatGPT users and more than two million business customers.
- OpenAI Executive Brad Lightcap Departs After Eight Years
On August 11, 2026, longtime OpenAI executive Brad Lightcap—former CFO, COO, and most recently head of special projects—announced he is leaving after eight years to “start something new,” the latest high-profile leadership move at the lab.
- Hassabis Becomes Alphabet Chief Scientist as Jeff Dean Exits for Discovery Loop
On August 5, 2026, Google announced a DeepMind leadership overhaul: Demis Hassabis steps down as Google DeepMind CEO to become Chair of GDM and Alphabet’s Chief Scientist, Koray Kavukcuoglu becomes SVP running day-to-day GDM, and Jeff Dean leaves after 27 years with Sanjay Ghemawat and others to found public-benefit startup Discovery Loop.
- Anthropic Names Tino Cuéllar First Chief Global Affairs Officer
On August 4, 2026, Anthropic appointed Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar—former California Supreme Court justice and Carnegie Endowment president—as its first Chief Global Affairs Officer, leading worldwide policy, international engagement, and government relationships as the company navigates White House AI rules and post-Pentagon friction.
- OpenAI Closes Record $122 Billion Round at $852 Billion Valuation
On March 31, 2026, OpenAI announced it closed a funding round with $122 billion in committed capital at an $852 billion post-money valuation—up from $110 billion of strategic commitments disclosed in February—with SoftBank co-leading alongside a16z, D. E. Shaw Ventures, Amazon, Nvidia, Microsoft, and first-time bank-channel individual investors.
- Anthropic Raises $30 Billion in Series G at $380 Billion Valuation
On February 12, 2026, Anthropic announced the close of a $30 billion Series G funding round at a $380 billion post-money valuation. Led by GIC and Coatue, the round more than doubles the company’s prior valuation and will fund safety research, product innovation, and global infrastructure expansion for Claude.
- xAI Raises $20 Billion in Upsized Series E, Exceeding Its $15B Target
On January 6, 2026, xAI announced it closed an upsized Series E at $20 billion—above a $15 billion target—with Valor, StepStone, Fidelity, Qatar Investment Authority, MGX, Baron, and strategic investors NVIDIA and Cisco Investments backing Colossus-scale compute and Grok product expansion.