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- Anthropic Nears $950B Valuation With Mega Fundraise
- 1 in 3 Adults Now Planning to Start a Business
- Big Tech Rushes AI Into Thousands of Private Equity Firms
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Anthropic Nears $950B Valuation With Mega Fundraise
Anthropic is reportedly in talks to raise between $30 billion and $50 billion in a new round that would value the AI company at an astounding $950 billion — potentially making it the world’s most valuable private company, overtaking OpenAI’s last valuation of $852 billion. The fundraise signals that enterprise-focused AI — not consumer chatbots — is where the biggest money is concentrating, with Anthropic’s edge built on tools like Claude Code and its cybersecurity model Mythos.
1 in 3 Adults Now Planning to Start a Business
A major Intuit QuickBooks survey found that one in three adults plan to start a new business or side hustle within the next 12 months — a 94% jump from last year — as more people view entrepreneurship as their best path to financial stability, with over 60% of aspiring entrepreneurs planning to use AI to help launch their business. The entrepreneurship surge is being driven by a generation that sees AI as a launch accelerator, not just a tool.
Big Tech Rushes AI Into Thousands of Private Equity Firms
Anthropic and OpenAI both announced major deals with private equity firms — OpenAI’s new joint venture partners have access to more than 2,000 portfolio companies — with Blackstone and KKR also reportedly in talks with Google to bring AI models into their portfolio firms. This marks a structural shift: AI is no longer being sold to individual businesses but injected across entire portfolios of companies simultaneously, compressing adoption timelines dramatically.
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