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- Week in review #40
Mistral AI secures €3B, valued at over €21B
European AI firm Mistral AI announced a €3 billion Series D funding round, propelling its valuation to over €21 billion. In the US, nearly half of all small employer firms are now utilizing AI, with 71% reporting increased productivity as a direct result. - Week in review #35
AWS and NVIDIA expand GPU partnership for 3 million units
Hyperscalers are pouring trillions into AI infrastructure, underscored by a massive new AWS and NVIDIA partnership to deploy millions of GPUs. Meanwhile, the EU AI Act's new enforcement powers are becoming applicable, creating significant compliance hurdles for the entire industry. - Week in review #30
OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, xAI, Meta drive AI price war to $4
A wave of new, powerful AI models from major labs has triggered a fierce price war, drastically lowering the cost of advanced intelligence. Meanwhile, a surge in venture capital for robotics and a global push for regulation signal a market rapidly moving from experimentation to industrial scale. - Week in review #29
OpenAI, xAI, Meta cut AI model prices by 80%
A fierce price war erupted as major labs launched powerful new AI models at a fraction of legacy costs. Meanwhile, tech giants signaled their long-term commitment with plans for a staggering $725 billion in infrastructure spending for 2026. - Week in review #28
OpenAI launches GPT-5.6, xAI releases Grok 4.5 models
OpenAI's public release of its GPT-5.6 model family marks a significant acceleration in the AI arms race, with new agentic and voice capabilities set to drive adoption. Meanwhile, the staggering scale of infrastructure investment faces growing challenges, as a new report reveals nearly 90% of firms deploying AI agents have suffered security breaches. - Week in review #27
South Korea announces $974B AI and chip industrial plan
This week, the AI industry balanced major model releases with increasing government influence, highlighted by OpenAI's restricted GPT-5.6 launch. Meanwhile, unprecedented investment continues to reshape the hardware landscape, from South Korea's massive semiconductor plan to custom chip designs. - Week in review #25
US Commerce suspends Anthropic Fable 5, Mythos 5 models
Vast capital commitments defined the week, as hyperscalers projected a staggering $3 trillion investment in AI infrastructure over the next three years. Meanwhile, a U.S. government directive suspending advanced models from Anthropic underscored the growing geopolitical tensions surrounding AI development. - Week in review #19
Anthropic forms $1.5B finance JV, faces Pentagon ban
Anthropic stormed Wall Street with a $1.5 billion joint venture and ten ready-made financial agents, while the Pentagon signed AI deals with eight tech giants and pointedly left Anthropic off the list. The week crystallised a strange new reality: one company can simultaneously be the most wanted partner on Wall Street and the most unwanted in Washington.
- Week in review #17
Amazon commits $25B to Anthropic, total now $33B
Google bet the enterprise on agents while DeepSeek dropped a new open-source flagship on the same morning. Meanwhile, the capital flowing into frontier AI reached numbers that make last year's mega-rounds look modest.
- Week in review #15
Meta, Microsoft, Amazon drive $242B AI infrastructure deals
242 billion dollars flowed into AI in a single quarter, and the week showed exactly where it's all going.