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Anthropic has closed a $65 billion Series H round at a $965 billion post-money valuation, marking what could be the AI startup's final private fundraise before a highly anticipated IPO.
Anthropic is more valuable than OpenAI in latest funding round.
The United States Postal Service said Thursday it reached a $10 billion deal to provide “last-mile” package delivery services for DHL eCommerce, an arm of German package services provider DHL. The USPS said in December it intended to open its last-mile delivery network to large and small shippers, expanding beyond current arrangements with Amazon and UPS. Postmaster General David Steiner said in a call with reporters that since the USPS delivers to 170 million locations six days a week, “we are the best last-mile provider by default.”
Best Buy is known for its laptops and smartphones. Best Buy stock surged nearly 17% Thursday after the electronics chain reported first-quarter operating earnings of $1.28 a share, up from $1.15 a year earlier—helped by higher margins and a 2% bump in same-store sales. Best Buy, meanwhile, stoked the uncertainty further when it announced in April that CEO Corie Barry would step down Oct. 31, to be replaced by longtime company veteran Jason Bonfig.
Anthropic on Thursday said it is launching an upgraded Claude Opus 4.8 model even as it works to release its powerful, market-moving Mythos model to all customers in the coming weeks. Mythos is the AI lab's large language model with advanced cybersecurity capabilities that have raised concerns among executives and world leaders about its impact. As a part of Project Glasswing, major tech firms such as Amazon, Microsoft and Apple are permitted to use Mythos for cybersecurity purposes.
Amazon is the biggest online retailer in the world. It’s made tens of billions of dollars in profit, and the company uses that cash to finance its businesses and projects for future earnings growth. Despite the massive take in earnings, the company hasn’t paid cash dividends to stockholders and has ...
Investing.com -- Standard Chartered analyst Geoff Kendrick is standing by a bullish long-term outlook for ethereum, arguing that a disconnect between the token's improving internal metrics and its lagging price is temporary and that a catch-up is only a matter of time.
Remember the ‘SaaSpocalyse,’ the period on Wall Street this year when traders panicked that AI would displace software companies? The move follows strong earnings results from Snowflake yesterday, during which the company issued better-than-expected annual guidance and said it is seeing increasing demand for its artificial intelligence tools. It's an example of how some software companies are adapting to the AI revolution.
There is always one IPO that defines a generation of investors. For people who started buying stocks in the 1990s, it was Microsoft (MSFT) and Amazon (AMZN). For millennials, it was Facebook and Tesla (TSLA). Each one arrived with the same problem, a valuation that looked impossible right up until ...
(Bloomberg) -- Micron Technology Inc. is the third-best performer in the S&P 500 Index this year and at the same time one of the least expensive stocks in the market. While that dichotomy looks bullish on the surface, it may be more of a warning sign than a green light for investors.Most Read from BloombergSingapore Hands Byju's Founder His First Ever Jail TermIran’s Khamenei Says No Going Back for Middle East Rocked by WarEx-President Biden Sues to Stop DOJ Sharing Interview TapesTwo More Oil S
Snowflake shares soared 36% after-hours on signing an AI deal with Amazon and buying Natoma, a platform for enterprise AI agents.
Snowflake stock soared amid Q1 earnings and revenue that topped estimates. The software maker hiked full-year sales guidance.
Shares in Snowflake soared 30% after the market closed Wednesday following a Wall Street Journal report that Amazon Web Services has signed up the cloud-storage company as its latest chips customer. Snowflake, whose shares have bounced back of late after a slump earlier this year, also reported quarterly earnings on Wednesday.
The cloud-storage company joins Apple and Meta as one of AWS’s largest customers for CPU-based computing. Snowflake shares soared 30% after the closing bell.
Walmart (NASDAQ: WMT) stock has dropped 11% over the past five trading days. This downturn comes right on the heels of the company's recent Q1 2027 earnings release, where, despite strong e-commerce growth and beating revenue forecasts, the stock faced immediate pressure. It is a pullback that should make investors take notice.
The biggest IPO conversation right now centers on SpaceX’s reported June 12 listing. Gavin Baker, founder and Chief Investment Officer of Atreides Management, thinks investors are watching the wrong name. On a recent episode of the Invest Like the Best YouTube channel, Baker argued that Anthropic, the private AI lab behind Claude, has a more ... An Upcoming IPO Could Soon Surpass NVIDIA As The World’s Most Valuable Company (It’s Not SpaceX)
Non-European satellite operators such as Elon Musk's Starlink and Amazon's low-earth-orbit business can bid for mobile satellite spectrum, the European Commission said on Wednesday, leaving the door open to U.S. companies while also decreasing the share of spectrum they will be able to acquire. But the push has been marked by internal divisions at the Commission, with some wanting to be more aggressive and others wanting a more gradual line. Two thirds of the available spectrum will be divided equally between EU and non-EU operators for commercial use, the EU executive said, confirming a Reuters report.
Amazon invested over £15 billion ($20 billion) in Britain in 2025, keeping the e-commerce giant on track to deliver its planned £40 billion investment in the three years to the end of 2027, it said on Wednesday. Investments in 2025 included the launch of new operational sites, expanded studio production facilities and office space, as well as the start of a drone deliveries trial. Updating on its annual UK economic impact and tax disclosure, Amazon also said: • In 2025, the total revenues of its activities in the UK were more than £30 billion.
(Bloomberg) -- ByteDance Ltd., the developer of TikTok and a leading force in artificial intelligence, is considering increasing its capital spending to more than double last year’s in a bid to lead the Chinese AI market and challenge the top US players abroad.Most Read from BloombergIran’s Khamenei Says No Going Back for Middle East Rocked by WarSingapore Hands Byju's Founder His First Ever Jail TermPutin Signs Law on Use of Army to Aid Russians Detained AbroadRussia Tells US to Evacuate Its Di
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS, May 27 (Reuters) - European leaders are divided on how far to go in curbing Big Tech as they weigh momentous decisions over giving EU firms preferential access to mobile
European leaders are divided on how far to go in curbing Big Tech as they weigh momentous decisions over giving EU firms preferential access to mobile satellite spectrum and limiting large multinationals' access to EU cloud tenders. On Tuesday, Reuters reported Brussels was likely to leave an opening for Elon Musk's Starlink and Amazon's low-earth-orbit satellite business Leo to acquire lucrative European mobile satellite spectrum next year as a result of a compromise that will reserve the bulk of frequencies for European firms. A separate decision on EU cloud tenders set for June 3 is expected to temper the influence of U.S. firms such as Amazon, Alphabet's Google and Microsoft, which dominate the global cloud market with a combined 63% share.
Amazon cited AI efficiency when it eliminated 16,000 corporate roles. Microsoft cited AI when it cut more than 15,000 positions. Across Big Tech, the explanation for layoffs has become almost predictable: we are doing more with less, and AI is why. Jensen Huang has a problem with that story. And he ...
The Magnificent Seven's first-quarter earnings are in the books, and the seven companies registered their best profit growth in nearly five years. All remain pillars of the S&P 500 index. Collectively, Mag 7 earnings jumped 63.2% year over year, according to a report from FactSet.
There is a particular comfort in the idea that the boss and the billionaire agree on the future. It saves you the trouble of picking a side. It saves you the harder trouble of figuring out which one is selling you something. For the past week, American workers got the optimistic version of that ...
Dropbox said on Tuesday that CEO and co-founder Andrew Houston will step down after a transition period, promoting insider Ashraf Alkarmi to co-CEO ahead of his succession as the sole chief executive. The file hosting service provider's shares fell more than 1% in early trading. They have fallen over 3% this year.
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