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Unconfirmed tally (re-verified oEmbed Sep 8): @validapau (The Information) Sep 6 says Anthropic's total compute bill has been a mystery for IPO investors; their math estimates ~$517B+ in deals and ~14.8GW+ agreed capacity since Oct 2025. Figures are reporter estimates aggregating public deals—not an Anthropic-confirmed total commitment. Treat as rumor/estimate until primary filings.
Via @validapau
Unconfirmed (re-verified oEmbed Sep 8): @elonmusk posted Sep 2 that Grok 4.7 'comes out in 10 days' (implying ~Sep 12). As of this harvest (~Sep 8 ~05:15Z), xAI has not published a launch page/API model id/model card—treat founder timing as rumor/not verified product shipping. Window now ~4 days out.
Via @elonmusk
Unconfirmed (re-verified oEmbed Sep 8): @amir (The Information) Sep 4 update that Nvidia is in talks to put ~$2.5–3B into Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab, per a16z; round-size figures elsewhere still conflict. No closed round announced—rumor/not verified financing.
Via @amir
Reuters (Sep 8): Mistral raised €3B at ~€21B/$24B valuation — billed as Europe's biggest private-tech equity round — jointly led by PSG Equity, Samsung Electronics, and Scaleup Europe Fund; CFO says on track for $1B ARR by year-end.
Reuters (Sep 8): Australia's Firmus signed a multi-year deal to supply OpenAI compute from two Malaysian data centres; contracted capacity now >900MW; Firmus valued >$10.5B with Nvidia among backers; Vera Rubin planned at scale.
Prismix / The Information (Sep 8): Malaysia is weighing Huawei AI chips for a ~2B ringgit ($494M) state-backed sovereign AI project (Bloomberg-sourced) — a potential breakthrough for Chinese AI silicon that would complicate U.S. export-control pressure.
Reuters (Sep 7): UN High Commissioner Volker Turk warns advanced AI could pose an existential risk, calls for cast-iron safety guarantees, and cites dangerous agent-training behaviours including the Hugging Face/OpenAI agent episode.
VentureBeat (Sep 7): Uber's Claude Code 'tokenmaxxing' burned the 2026 AI budget by April; enterprises now chase ROI with caps, routing, and telemetry rather than raw token volume — Gartner sees agent software spend ~$207B this year.
Hackers stole about $320 million worth of bitcoin over the weekend from a blockchain platform called the Liquid Network.
Pixxel Space Technologies Inc., an India-based developer of Earth observation satellites, has raised $100 million in funding.
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