Anthropic Draws VC Bids at Up to $800B Valuation
Venture firms have approached Anthropic at valuations as high as $800 billion, more than double its February round, as run-rate revenue tops $30 billion.

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Venture firms have approached Anthropic at valuations as high as $800 billion, more than double its February round, as run-rate revenue tops $30 billion.

Meta is funding TerraPower reactors and a 1.2 GW Oklo campus. Amazon committed 5 GW of SMRs with X-energy by 2039. Google targets its first reactor through Kairos Power by 2030. Big Tech has decided that nuclear is the only answer to AI energy demand.

Broadcom signed long-term agreements with Google to produce future TPU generations and with Anthropic for 3.5 gigawatts of AI compute, as Anthropic revenue tops $30 billion.

Meta is closing messenger.com in April 2026, redirecting all traffic to facebook.com/messages. Desktop apps were removed in December 2025. Users without Facebook accounts lose all web access to Messenger.

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps issued a direct cyberattack threat against 18 US tech companies including Microsoft, Apple, and Alphabet on March 31, 2026.

Microsoft is auto-enabling passkeys for millions of accounts in March 2026. With 87% of companies now deployed, the passwordless tipping point has arrived.

Every Magnificent Seven stock is now down double digits from its 52-week high. Microsoft is off 32% from its October peak, its worst start to a year on record.

Microsoft, Meta, Alphabet and Amazon are set to spend over $470 billion on AI infrastructure in 2026 as investors demand proof these investments will pay off.

Google, Amazon, Apple and Microsoft filed legal briefs supporting Anthropic's lawsuit after the Pentagon labeled it a supply chain risk over AI guardrails.

The EU's antitrust chief is expanding scrutiny from Apple and Google to Nvidia and AMD as European officials move to challenge AI chip market concentration.

Nvidia unveiled its Vera Rubin GPU architecture at GTC 2026 with a confirmed $1 trillion order backlog and record Q4 FY2026 earnings of $68.1 billion.

At least 85 operators across 47 countries have launched 5G SA networks, but only about a dozen have crossed into 5G-Advanced, widening the gap between leaders and laggards.
