How Did AI Capital Smash **$135B** Today? 💸🤖🚀

TL;DR

• Mega-rounds push frontier AI valuations near trillion
• Mid-market startups score fresh Series A–B fuel
• Governments and funds double down on AI sovereignty
• Real deployments in health, finance, weather go live

HEADLINES

World Labs raises $1B for spatial intelligence 🌍🔗

Sharon AI prices $125M Nasdaq IPO 📈🔗

WisdomTree lists physical AI, humanoids, drones ETF WPAI 🤖🔗

Nextech3D.ai posts 59% revenue growth, 95% margins 📊🔗

Canva hits $4B ARR, 265M users with AI 🎨🔗

Finastra reports Vietnam banks racing into AI 🏦🔗

FROM THE BIG PLAYERS

OpenAI lining up $100B+ multi-tranche mega-round 🏦🔗

Humain invests $3B into xAI’s Series E 🤝🔗

Nvidia partners India to enable 500 AI startups 🖥️🔗

Microsoft highlights AI, sovereignty, Global South infrastructure push 🌐🔗

RAISES

World Labs raised $1B to scale spatial AI 📐🔗

Onshore raised $31M Series B for AI tax 🧾🔗

Braintrust raised $80M Series B for observability 📊🔗

Cogent Security raised $42M Series A for AI security 🛡️🔗

Kana raised $15M seed for marketing AI agents 📣🔗

NEW LAUNCHES

DeepL launched Language AI on AWS Marketplace 🌐🔗

OpenAI unveiled EVMbench for crypto smart-contract safety 🧪🔗

Alibaba launched Qwen 3.5 397B-A17 open-weight model ⚙️🔗

JCHO Osaka Hospital launched generative AI workforce project 🏥🔗

Raining Bell rolled out AI weather voice assistant 🌦️🔗

METRICS

World Labs secured $1B to fund spatial models 📏🔗

Nextech3D.ai revenue up 59% YoY, 95% margins 📈🔗

Finastra says 94% Vietnam banks upping AI spend 📊🔗

Wall Street sees Nasdaq up 0.78% on AI 📉🔗

Canva reaches $4B ARR, 265M monthly active users 📌🔗

BENCHMARKS

Google Cloud published new AI Threat Tracker categories 📘🔗

MeitY India launched AI Impact Startup Book ecosystem scan 📙🔗

ASEAN Foundation showcased regional AI Ready adoption findings 🌏🔗

INFRA & COSTS

Nvidia signs Meta deal for millions of AI chips 🔌🔗

E2E Networks gains on Nvidia Blackwell GPU cluster news 🧮🔗

Google plans US–India subsea cable, $15B data center 🌊🔗

Business Insider wins Polk for AI data-center cost probe 💡🔗

VALUATIONS

OpenAI eyed at $850B post-fundraise valuation 🏷️🔗

Braintrust hits $800M valuation with Series B 💸🔗

Sharon AI prices IPO at $30 per share 📈🔗

WPAI ETF launches with exposure to physical AI leaders 📊🔗

POLICY

EU Commission stresses AI rules must still support innovation ⚖️🔗

India IT Ministry reiterates techno-legal path for AI regulation 📜🔗

Rumman Chowdhury warns world lacks rigorous AI safety tests 🧬🔗

US Agencies briefed on implementing AI Executive Order 🏛️🔗

SOVEREIGN

Saudi PIF consolidates gaming, AI stakes into platforms 🏰🔗

Humain – Saudi AI invests $3B into xAI infrastructure 🏦🔗

India AI Impact Summit inaugurated by PM Modi, Macron, Guterres 🇮🇳🔗

Brad Smith urges AI investment with digital sovereignty safeguards 🛡️🔗

Japan Government plans security-law revision backing strategic tech abroad 🗾🔗

SECTORS

Healthcare deployed generative AI for discharge summaries 🩺🔗

Public Weather Services deployed AI voice assistant for forecasts 🌧️🔗

Banking – Vietnam deployed AI across credit, risk, customer journeys 💳🔗

Marketing deployed flexible AI agents into legacy stacks 📣🔗

COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT

p-e-w released Heretic censorship-removal tool for language models 🧪🔗