SpaceX raised $75 billion in the largest IPO in history, opened at $150 and closed up 19% on day one, making Elon Musk the world's first trillionaire.

The same week, Apollo and Blackstone finalized a $35 billion private credit deal using chip-leasing SPVs to finance Anthropic's compute — a structure that had never existed before and may unlock trillions in institutional capital for AI infrastructure.

Jeff Bezos took his first CEO role since leaving Amazon and raised $12 billion for Prometheus, an AI company building what he calls the artificial general engineer.

And Neura Robotics closed the largest robotics financing in European history at $1.4 billion.

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Anthropic beat OpenAI to the IPO filing — and the growth numbers behind it are extraordinary: revenue from $10 billion to $47 billion in twelve months.

But the filing also discloses a Pentagon blacklisting that nobody was leading with.

Microsoft Build launched seven in-house AI models, a personal agent for Microsoft 365, and a quantum chip targeting 2029.

A coalition of eight French industrial giants submitted a €10 billion bid for Europe's AI gigafactory.

And Deutsche Bank backed a crypto compliance company — which tells you precisely what kind of digital asset future the banks are planning for.

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This was the biggest week in AI history. OpenAI filed its IPO at $852 billion to $1 trillion.

SpaceX's S-1 revealed Anthropic is paying $1.25 billion a month for compute.

Anthropic hired Andrej Karpathy and closed its $900 billion funding round. Google I/O launched Gemini Spark as a 24/7 personal AI agent and cut its subscription price 60%. Cognition's Devin raised $1 billion at $26 billion with $492 million in revenue.

A developer supply chain attack hit GitHub, OpenAI, and Mistral. And on Sunday, Pope Leo XIV published the first papal encyclical on artificial intelligence.

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Nvidia just posted $81.6 billion in quarterly revenue — beating Wall Street by $3 billion — guided Q2 to $91 billion, and raised its dividend 25 times.

The CLARITY Act cleared the Senate Banking Committee 15-9 and Bitcoin briefly hit $82,000. Sierra raised $950 million at a $15.8 billion valuation.

True Anomaly pulled $600 million for space security. And JPMorgan's own growth equity arm backed Rogo — an AI company that automates financial research. fintech, and private equity.

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Nvidia reports Wednesday — $78.8 billion consensus, Goldman at $80 billion, and the single most watched earnings print of the year.

The CLARITY Act hit its most consequential moment as banking lobbyists tried to kill it four days before the Senate markup and failed.

Robinhood filed its second retail venture fund as its first one doubled in price since March.

And three of the biggest crypto funds — a16z, Paradigm, and Haun — all raised billion-dollar-plus funds with the same AI-crypto convergence thesis in the same week.

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For the first time, Anthropic has overtaken OpenAI on annualised revenue — $30 billion versus $24 billion, driven by enterprise AI agents rather than consumer chat.

This week OpenAI missed its internal revenue targets and its CFO raised concerns about funding future compute commitments. JPMorgan responded by reclassifying AI as core infrastructure with a $19.8 billion technology budget.

Novo Nordisk partnered with OpenAI for drug discovery. A California court created new legal liability for AI advertising platforms.

And European VC raised €360 million while the IT sector quietly shed 13,000 jobs.

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The biggest AI partnership in history just got rewritten. Microsoft lost its exclusive lock on OpenAI. GPT-5.5 landed on AWS the next day.

The Pentagon named eight AI vendors for classified networks — and left Anthropic off the list.

Big Tech posted record earnings: Azure up 40%, Google Cloud up 63%, Apple at $111 billion.

Stripe spent two days in San Francisco building payment rails for AI agents.

And Anthropic is reportedly fielding $900 billion valuation offers. This was not a quiet week.

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This week AI hit its first real political wall — data centre opponents blocked $156 billion in projects last year, Maine is considering a statewide ban, and electricity bills are becoming a congressional issue.

Plus stablecoins crossed $300 billion in market cap and the CLARITY Act's yield dispute finally resolved. VC deployed a record $300 billion in Q1 but four companies took 65% of it.

And European PE is quietly buying at lower multiples while US capital comes looking for a deal.

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This week's Tech & AI Wrap covers four stories shaped by one theme: constraint.

Nvidia Blackwell GPU rental prices hit $4.08 per hour — up 48% in two months — as Vultr's CEO called it the worst compute shortage in five years.

Anthropic's Claude API uptime has fallen below the 99.99% industry standard, and analysts don't expect GPU supply to balance until 2029.

OpenAI confirmed its first permanent London office, an 88,500 sq ft space at King's Cross for over 500 employees — but paused its UK Stargate data centre project the same week over energy costs.

We explain what that gap means. In fintech, Palo Alto Networks founder Nir Zuk agreed to acquire Liberty Bank in California as a launchpad for agentic AI in core banking — a move Columbia professors are calling a "demonstration project" for the industry. Paradigm is raising a $1.5 billion fund expanding from crypto into AI and robotics.

And European PE is quietly outperforming: Eurazeo posted record €5.5 billion in fundraising for 2025, up 28%, while EQT's $3.7 billion acquisition of Coller Capital positions it in a secondaries market set to double by 2030.

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This week's Tech & AI Wrap covers five stories that matter. Q1 2026 broke every venture capital record in history — $300 billion deployed globally, with 80% going to AI companies and 65% absorbed by just four deals: OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Waymo.

We break down what that concentration actually means for founders building outside the megaround tier.

AI inference costs hit 85% of enterprise GPU budgets, with agentic systems consuming up to 30 times more tokens per task than standard chatbots — and we explain why the cost crisis is worsening even as per-token prices fall.

The US finally operationalised the GENIUS Act stablecoin framework this week, but PYMNTS data shows only 13% of middle-market firms are actually using stablecoins.

We cover why the adoption gap persists.

And European private equity is quietly buying logistics and real estate assets using a buy-and-hold compounding strategy that looks increasingly durable compared to the AI hype cycle. Verified data, sourced throughout, no filler.

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