Runware plans a factory to assemble its Sonic Inference Pods on an assembly line, CEO Flaviu Radulescu says, aiming for 30 megawatts of capacity per day by 2028 as operators seek faster AI deployment. The company says it has two factories and targets 48-hour installation. It has raised over $60 million and plans a Series B.
Dream, a startup founded by former Palantir executives Andy Elder and Arjun Mathur, exits stealth with $17 million in seed funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. Its built world model, trained on more than 100 million square feet of permit data, designs structurally precise buildings. The company says the platform is deployed on 10 projects in Texas and California.
Anthropic filed for an initial public offering on Monday and plans to list under the ticker ANT, with revenue of $16.3 billion in the first half of 2026 against an operating loss of $693 million. The seven co-founders will control 50.1% of shareholder voting power through a Founder LLC, a structure Anthropic says preserves its AI safety mission. The filing did not disclose the raise amount or share price.
Meta plans to raise $95 billion to fund AI infrastructure and superintelligence work, starting with $35 billion in public equity offerings and $60 billion more through an at-the-market program. Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom expressed interest in buying up to $5 billion in shares, Meta said. Meta's stock fell 1.6% in morning trading.
Bedrock Robotics raises $600 million in a Series C co-led by CapitalG and Emergence Capital, valuing the two-year-old company at $4.1 billion. Excavators retrofitted with its self-driving kit now work commercially at a Nevada water treatment facility and at Texas and Zachry Construction sites. CEO Boris Sofman says the funding will expand deployments.
SpaceX closes $40 billion in debt financing to buy GPUs for AI, CEO Elon Musk says. Musk says the financing is mostly callable debt, with the chips arriving in the first half of 2027. A regulatory filing says SpaceX signed a binding commitment with an Apollo-managed entity for the GPU financing.
OpenAI is close to finalizing a funding round of up to $30 billion at a $1.25 trillion valuation, led by investors from the United Arab Emirates and Coatue, according to people familiar with the deal. The company is positioning the financing as a bridge ahead of a potential IPO and is negotiating a commercial deal for more computing capacity from the UAE. OpenAI told investors it aims to secure signatures by the end of next week, though the final size is still being determined.
Kevin Weil, formerly OpenAI's science lead, launches Warp Sciences, an AI startup training robots to synthesize and test drug compounds. Weil says the company raised $215 million at an $865 million valuation, led by Lightspeed. He aims to reshore lab work now outsourced to Chinese contractors such as WuXi AppTec.
Blacksmith raises a $66 million Series C led by Sequoia at a $1 billion valuation. CEO Aditya Jayaprakash said the platform makes continuous integration less painful as AI agents write more code. Blacksmith reports 17x annual recurring revenue growth and 90 million CI jobs run; customers include Mercury and Granola.
Blackwall raises $100 million in a Series C led by AVP at a $2.2 billion valuation, quadrupling its 2025 figure, executive chairman Roi Carthy says. The Estonia-based company sells bot and AI agent traffic tools through hosting providers, offering a free tier for traffic visibility and charging for protection.