Month: August 2026

Biggest IPO in history. Anthropic plans to go public with a $2 trillion valuation Investors in Anthropic expect the company to go public with a valuation of $2 trillion or more. This was reported by the Financial Times. Such a valuation would make the company’s IPO the largest in history,

Legora in talks to raise at a $10bn valuation, according to reports Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/legora-in-talks-to-raise-at-a-10bn-valuation-according-to-reports/

The under the radar venture lab building deeptechs to save the planet Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/the-under-the-radar-venture-lab-building-deeptechs-to-save-the-planet/

Inside Multiverse Computing, the Spanish startup vying to be Europe’s next AI champion Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/multiverse-computing-europe-ai-champion/

Investors sue Selena Gomez alleging fraud tied to her mental health startup The plaintiffs say they invested nearly $1.2 million in the company, and are accusing Gomez of failing to build and market the startup. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/13/investors-sue-selena-gomez-alleging-fraud-tied-to-her-mental-health-startup/

Flock says its new tool will help identify police abuse, but hasn’t explained how it works The surveillance company announced it’s making a tool called “Audit Assistance” mandatory for all customers, claiming it’s already helped catch abuse. But the company has yet to explain how the tool works in detail,

If Apple sends you a push notification alerting you to a spyware attack, take it seriously Apple now sends out push notifications to iPhone lock screens when the company identifies government spyware targeting someone’s devices. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/13/if-apple-sends-you-a-push-notification-alerting-you-to-a-spyware-attack-take-it-seriously/

Writer introduces new AI model and upgraded harness to contain token costs Built as a post-training variation on Z.ai’s open source model GLM-5.2, Writer says the new system should provide deployment-ready capabilities at a much lower price. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/13/writer-introduces-new-ai-model-and-upgraded-harness-to-contain-token-costs/

Databricks wanted to raise $1B, investors wanted $15B. It settled on $5B at a $190B valuation. AI is expensive, Ali Ghodsi tells TechCrunch. With so many investors wanting into his latest round, he said yes to more than planned. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/13/databricks-wanted-to-raise-1b-investors-wanted-15b-it-settled-on-5b-at-a-190b-valuation/

MSCA-backed QuBriC brings Alice & Bob into Europe’s quantum error correction push Today sees the expansion of QuBriC, Europe’s first Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Doctoral Network dedicated to quantum error correction (QEC), with the addition of fault-tolerant quantum computing scaleup Alice & Bob. QuBriC brings together 16 universities and seven