Nvidia is pulling Wall Street into the AI buildout. Its shares fell on the news
Nvidia is pulling Wall Street into the AI buildout. Its shares fell on the news

A group of financial firms is working with Nvidia on a $500bn funding package for AI infrastructure. The group covers Apollo Global Management, Blackstone, BlackRock’s Global Infrastructure Partners, Brookfield Asset Management, Goldman Sachs and KKR. …

Lambda is borrowing $917m to buy chips from the company that invests in it
Lambda is borrowing $917m to buy chips from the company that invests in it

Lambda is selling a $917 million leveraged loan to finance a chip purchase, Bloomberg reported on Monday. Jeannine Amodeo, Paula Seligson and Gowri Gurumurthy broke the story. The money pays for GPUs and other infrastructure as part of a contract with …

Bill Ackman agrees with Jeff Bezos: the best way to help the world is to build something that works
Bill Ackman agrees with Jeff Bezos: the best way to help the world is to build something that works

Bill Ackman has spent close to $1 billion on philanthropy over two decades and concluded that capitalism is better at solving problems. “I’ve spent a fair amount of time on philanthropy, and it’s vastly less efficient at solving problems than capitalis…

NavVis raised €73.7M to build the spatial data layer that factories need before they can deploy AI
NavVis raised €73.7M to build the spatial data layer that factories need before they can deploy AI

NavVis, a Munich-based spatial twin platform, raised €73.7 million ($85 million) in a Series D round led by US private equity firm The Jordan Company. Existing investors Yttrium, KOZO KEIKAKU ENGINEERING, and Cipio Partners also participated. The compa…

Harvey is raising at $15.5bn, up 40% in five months
Harvey is raising at $15.5bn, up 40% in five months

The legal-AI startup is in talks to raise at least $500m at a $15.5bn valuation, including the new money, The Information reported. That is a 40% jump on the $11bn it set only five months ago, when it raised $200m. Lightspeed Venture Partners is keen t…

Gravity raised $30.5M to place ads inside AI chatbots. Its next product targets the bots themselves.
Gravity raised $30.5M to place ads inside AI chatbots. Its next product targets the bots themselves.

Gravity, an adtech startup that places ads inside AI chatbots, raised a $30.5 million Series A co-led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Committed Capital. The round brings total funding to $38.5 million. The company runs a full-stack ad platform: a de…

His AI fund lost 67% in a month. Thousands still copy his trades
His AI fund lost 67% in a month. Thousands still copy his trades

The AI trade blew up its own poster child last month, and thousands of people decided to keep betting on him. More than 5,000 retail investors are still mirroring Leopold Aschenbrenner’s stock portfolio, Business Insider reported, even after his hedge …

DeepSeek made AI cheap. Now it is raising $8bn and buying robots
DeepSeek made AI cheap. Now it is raising $8bn and buying robots

DeepSeek spent early 2025 proving that a good AI model did not have to cost a fortune. This week it has been busy proving it can spend one. In a handful of days, the Chinese lab reopened a multi-billion-dollar fundraising. It took a stake in the countr…

Sequoia Capital is putting $10bn behind AI and ‘reindustrialization’
Sequoia Capital is putting $10bn behind AI and ‘reindustrialization’

Sequoia Capital, is making the largest bet in its history, and it is not only about software. The venture firm is committing $10bn to a strategy built around artificial intelligence and what it calls reindustrialization. The figure is a statement in it…

WindBorne’s AI beats the government’s weather forecasts. Making money from them is the harder problem
WindBorne’s AI beats the government’s weather forecasts. Making money from them is the harder problem

WindBorne Systems has raised $37 million to sell something it has already proven it can build: weather forecasts that beat the government’s. The Series B, reported by TechCrunch, was co-led by Khosla Ventures and Galvanize and values the company at $25…