Hugging Face Explores a Sale That Could Value It at $13 Billion
Hugging Face is reportedly exploring a sale valuing it at $13 billion or more, nearly triple its 2023 valuation, though no deal has been reached and no buyer identified.
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Immutable Cuts Game Teams to Bet on AI Marketing Platform
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Web3 gaming unicorn Immutable cut 29 roles and gutted its in-house game studios to focus on Audience, an AI marketing platform for the broader games industry.
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Irina Bodnar says Anthropic’s Claude and Meta-backed Manus introduced features that disrupted her AI ad startup Ryze AI, triggering a pivot and raising questions about startup survival in the age of AI giants.
U.S. Tech Giants Set to Invest $650B in AI Infrastructure
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Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft are expected to spend $650 billion on AI infrastructure in 2026, up from $410 billion in 2025, highlighting rapid scaling amid compute demand.
Anthropic Expands in India With New Bengaluru Office, Enterprise and Education Partnerships
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Anthropic expands in India, launching a Bengaluru office and partnerships in enterprise, education, and agriculture to bring Claude.ai to diverse sectors and underserved communities.
OpenAI, Alphabet, and Anthropic Join AI Impact Summit in India
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Top technology executives are traveling to New Delhi for India’s AI Impact Summit as global firms accelerate expansion in one of the world’s fastest-growing AI markets.
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Fieldguide, an agentic AI platform for audit and advisory firms, has raised $75 million in Series C funding as demand accelerates for automation and workflow intelligence in professional services.