Anthropic Pays Nscale $45B for West Virginia AI Compute Capacity
Anthropic has struck a roughly $45 billion, six-year deal with two-year-old British neocloud Nscale for 460 megawatts of Nvidia Vera…
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Yotta Data Services Confirms IPO Talks, Dodges the $6bn Valuation Question
Yotta Data Services chairman Dashan Hiranandani told Bloomberg on August 28, 2026 that IPO talks are underway but declined to…
Google Pays $10M for Spirit Airlines’ Internal Data, Beats Mercor.io Bid
Google won an August 14, 2026 bankruptcy auction for Spirit Airlines' de-identified corporate data with a $10 million bid, outbidding…
FS.COM Pays RMB330M ($46M) to Fully Absorb Shanghai Baud Data Comms
Hong Kong-listed FS.COM Limited said on August 21, 2026 it has closed the buyout of the remaining stake in Shanghai…
YipitData Weighs $2.5B+ Sale as Carlyle Tests Alt-Data Appetite
YipitData, the Carlyle-backed alternative-data shop with roughly $280 million in ARR, is working with Goldman Sachs on a sale that…
Nvidia Weighs Mercor Stake at $20B, Doubling Valuation in 9 Months
Nvidia is reportedly in talks to invest in AI data-labeling startup Mercor at a $20 billion valuation, double its $10…
CoStar Closes $800M Zonda Buy, Pushes Into New-Home Data
CoStar Group completed its $800 million cash acquisition of Zonda on August 21, 2026, adding new-home construction data, homebuilder software,…
Nvidia in Talks to Fund AI Data Supplier Mercor at $20B Valuation
General Catalyst is leading a new round that would double Mercor's valuation to $20 billion just ten months after its…
Callosum Banks $100M Seed to Route AI Workloads Around Nvidia Lock-In
London-based Callosum raised $100 million in seed funding led by Atomico, with Plural, DCVC and the UK Sovereign AI Fund…
Velatir Raises €5M Seed to Sell AI Guardrails to Europe’s Mid-Market
Odense-based Velatir closed a €5 million seed round co-led by Spintop Ventures and Ugly Duckling Ventures just six months after…