TRYPROFOUND RAISES $35B SERIES B FROM SEQUOIA TO CHANGE HOW BRANDS CONNECT WITH CUSTOMERS THROUGH LLMS. TWITTER x.com/i/status/19553…

PERPLEXITY AI MAKES $34.5B UNSOLICITED BID FOR GOOGLE CHROME [THE WALL STREET JOURNAL / BLOOMBERG]

OPENAI BRINGS BACK CHATGPT MODEL PICKER FOR GPT-5 WITH NEW 'AUTO', 'FAST', AND 'THINKING' SETTINGS [TECHCRUNCH]

OPENAI OFFICIALLY LAUNCHES GPT-5 AS NEW DEFAULT MODEL IN CHATGPT [OPENAI OFFICIAL]

COREWEAVE REPORTS RECORD $1.21B Q2 REVENUE, 207% YOY GROWTH [CAPACITY MEDIA]

PERIODIC LABS RAISES $200M FROM ANDREESSEN HOROWITZ AT $1B VALUATION AI materials science startup co-founded by former OpenAI VP Liam Fedus and ex-DeepMind scientist Ekin Dogus Cubuk [STARTUP NEWS WIRE]

SAM ALTMAN CO-FOUNDS MERGE LABS TO RIVAL NEURALINK OpenAI CEO launches brain-computer interface startup seeking $250M at $850M valuation, backed by OpenAI ventures arm. [TECHCRUNCH]

ANTHROPIC ACQUIRES HUMANLOOP TEAM TO STRENGTHEN ENTERPRISE AI STRATEGY Major acqui-hire bolsters Anthropic's enterprise AI safety and compliance capabilities, intensifying competition with OpenAI for government contracts

PROTEGE RAISES $25M SERIES A TO EXPAND AI TRAINING DATA PLATFORM Footwork-led round supports secure data exchange for AI development with 100+ partners and billions of clinical notes [PR NEWSWIRE]

GOOGLE PLEDGES $9 BILLION TO EXPAND AI CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE IN OKLAHOMA Building new data center campus in Stillwater and expanding Pryor facility as Big Tech intensifies AI capacity race

XPAND RAISES $6M FOR AUTONOMOUS AI-POWERED RETAIL STORES Startup developing autonomous AI retail technology secures Series A funding led by Ibex Investors and Emerge, with CEO Joel Bar-El (ex-Trax Retail co-founder) leading expansion.

PROFOUND RAISES $35M SERIES B FROM SEQUOIA CAPITAL NVIDIA-backed AI marketing startup helps brands optimize for AI search and chatbots, serving Fortune 10 clients with 2,000+ daily users [TECHCRUNCH]

DEUTSCHE TELEKOM LAUNCHES T PHONE 3 AI-POWERED SMARTPHONE WITH MAGENTA AI ASSISTANT [DEUTSCHE TELEKOM PRESS RELEASE]

🚀 ANTHROPIC ANNOUNCES CLAUDE SONNET 4 WITH 1M TOKEN CONTEXT WINDOW Claude Sonnet 4 now processes entire codebases (75,000+ lines of code) in a single conversation, marking a major leap for developers requiring large context windows. [ANTHROPIC PRESS RELEASE]

NSF AND NVIDIA ANNOUNCE $152M PARTNERSHIP FOR FULLY OPEN AI MODELS [NSF PRESS RELEASE]

EVERTUNE RAISES $15M SERIES A FOR AI MARKETING OPTIMIZATION NYC startup's GEO platform analyzes 100K+ AI queries across major LLMs to help brands optimize visibility in AI-driven search results. Led by Felicis Ventures. [EVERTUNE PRESS RELEASE]

CREATE RAISES $8.5M SERIES A FOR AI CODING AGENT Bessemer-led round includes Shopify founder Tobi Lütke. "Anything" AI agent builds complete mobile/web apps, gained 30K users in 72 hours post-launch, approaching $1M ARR. [PYMNTS]

GSA LAUNCHES USAi FEDERAL AI EVALUATION PLATFORM [GSA PRESS RELEASE]

🚨 BETTER MEDICINE SECURES €1M FOR AI ONCOLOGY DIAGNOSTICS Estonian startup raises funding to accelerate European expansion and FDA clearance for CE-certified AI tools supporting radiologists with clinical decision support

USD.AI SECURES $13M SERIES A FOR GPU-BACKED LOANS TO AI STARTUPS Framework Ventures leads round for revolutionary platform using GPU infrastructure as collateral, cutting loan approval times by 90% [AINVEST]