Anthropic raised $65 billion in a Series H funding round, valuing the AI lab at $965 billion post-money, in one of the largest private funding rounds in tech history. Why it matters: With the round, Anthropic leapfrogs OpenAI, which was most recently valued at $730 billion. Driving the news: The round was led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks and Sequoia Capital. - The company said the funding will support safety and interpretability research, expand compute capacity and scale Claude products and partnerships. - Anthropic said its run-rate revenue crossed $47 billion earlier this month. Zoom in: The round includes $15 billion of previously committed hyperscaler investments, including $5 billion from Amazon. - Infrastructure…
Less than three years after being named the NBA’s 2023 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Social Justice Champion, the league’s all-time three-point leader has begun quietly pouring tens of millions into tech ventures owned and operated by Israeli spies.
This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This article was originally published by ¡Do Not Panic! American basketball star Stephen Curry is investing in tech startups run by former IDF operatives who were integral to building Israel’s digital architecture of apartheid and genocide. Curry, considered one of the sport’s all-time greats and who positions himself as an advocate for social justice, has invested in the companies, both run and staffed by former Israeli spies, through his venture capital firm Penny Jar Capital. Curry has made these investments alongside Israeli venture capital firms which are also deeply embedded in Israel’s intelligence…Open