What Will Over **$1.1B** In New AI Capital Buy? 🤖💸🚀

TL;DR

• Over $1.1B fresh AI capital, spanning funds, bonds, and venture rounds
• Mega-strategic deals tie together Microsoft, Nvidia, Anthropic at $45B scale
• Enterprise launches push Gemini 3, AI trust platforms, underwriting copilots
• Regulators and markets flash warnings on overheating AI valuations

HEADLINES

Amazon will raise $15B bonds for AI buildout 💵🔗

Bitfury launched $1B ethical tech and AI initiative 🌍🔗

US Markets slid as AI valuation fears hit semis 📉🔗

AppsFlyer released eight new AI marketing products 📊🔗

Big Tech continued layoffs despite surging AI investment ⚙️🔗

FROM THE BIG PLAYERS

Andreessen Horowitz invested $21M in Sphere tax AI platform 🧾🔗

Jeff Bezos committed $6.2B and co-CEO role to Prometheus 🛸🔗

Cloudflare to acquire Replicate and 50,000 AI models ☁️🔗

SAFE acquired Balbix for AI-native cyber risk quantification 🛡️🔗

RAISES

Maxima raised $41M across Seed and Series A from Kleiner Perkins and others 📒🔗

Apono raised $34M to automate cloud privilege management 🔐🔗

Peec AI raised $21M in Series A for AI search marketing 📣🔗

BluePill raised $6M Seed for synthetic “AI consumer” simulations 🧪🔗

Hammerhead AI raised $10M to cut AI data-center energy use ⚡🔗

NEW LAUNCHES

Google launched Gemini 3 directly into core Search 🧠🔗

Vanta launched Agentic Trust Platform for unified compliance and risk ✅🔗

Aviva unveiled AI underwriting tool for life insurance applications 📑🔗

TRY THESE TOOLS

Trend Micro Vision One adds controls to prevent accidental AI data leaks 🛡️🔗

Claude Courses on Coursera teach safe deployment of Anthropic models 🎓🔗

Secure.com Digital Security Teammates ship AI teammates watching for account takeover 🤖🔗

Private AI GPT offers India-first privacy-focused organizational GPT stack 🔒🔗

METRICS

Nvidia sits near $4.6T market cap pre-earnings 🏦🔗

Dow Jones fell 1.2% as AI tech sold off 📉🔗

AMD dropped 4.9% amid AI chip re-pricing 🧮🔗

SoftBank and Thiel offloaded about $5.9B in Nvidia stock 💣🔗

BENCHMARKS

USC Viterbi outlined enterprise AI risk-management playbook for 2026 📘🔗

Beeck Center mapped state data-governance maturity impacting AI readiness 🗺️🔗

AIHK Conference set Hong Kong AI Center-of-Excellence benchmarks 🏙️🔗

Demandbase shared account-based AI pipeline conversion benchmarks 📈🔗

INFRA & COSTS

InfraPartners and JLL partnered on prefab AI data-center rollout 🏗️🔗

Giga Computing shipped RTX PRO server with Blackwell GPUs 🖥️🔗

Cloudian launched HyperScale AI Data Platform on Nvidia stack 💽🔗

Project Prometheus evaluated Tenstorrent chips for custom AI compute 🔌🔗

AMD plans RX 9000 GPU price hikes 💸🔗

VALUATIONS

Databricks now valued at $100B+ for enterprise AI 🏷️🔗

Nvidia trades as $4.6T “spiritual index” of AI 📊🔗

Ramp unveiled AI finance agents as valuation hit $32B 💳🔗

Microsoft–Nvidia–Anthropic announced strategic AI partnerships worth $45B 🤝🔗

ASML invested €1.3B into Mistral AI 🇪🇺🔗

POLICY

State Attorneys warned patchwork US state AI laws are accelerating ⚖️🔗

a16z-backed PAC targeted New York’s AI safety bill sponsor 🏛️🔗

Macron pushed to delay EU high-risk AI rules by year 🕰️🔗

CEPA critiqued EU “Digital Omnibus” tech simplification plans 📜🔗

NST Commentary urged parliamentarians to upskill on AI governance 🧑‍⚖️🔗

SOVEREIGN

SAP and France teamed up on sovereign European AI ecosystem 🇫🇷🔗

Rwanda Government–Anthropic–ALX launched national AI learning initiative 🌍🔗

EU EuroHPC ramped InvestAI plan toward €200B AI infra 💶🔗

Saudi Arabia funded AI synthesis-planning push to bolster R&D 🕌🔗

SECTORS

Healthcare deployed AI scribe at AltaMed FQHC to cut clinician admin time 🏥🔗

Genomics used Nvidia-powered models to decode human genome patterns 🧬🔗

Networking adopted Kentik AI Advisor to optimize large-scale networks 🌐🔗

Retail rolled out Target’s AI-powered holiday shopping assistants 🛒🔗

Legal Services integrated Jurimesh AI into Virtual Vaults due diligence ⚖️🔗

COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT

Ajay Data launched Private AI GPT to secure Indian enterprises 🚀🔗