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Anthropic Launches Enterprise AI Firm With Wall Street Giants

PYMNTS · May 4, 2026

Anthropic is launching a new venture focused on selling AI tools to enterprise companies. This effort is being launched in partnership with Goldman Sachs, the Wall Street bank said Monday (May 4), in conjunction with investment firm Blackstone, and private equity group Hellman & Friedman, and will help companies embed Anthropic’s Claude artificial intelligence […] The post Anthropic Launches Enterprise AI Firm With Wall Street Giants appeared first on PYMNTS.com.

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VC & Startups

The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Defense Tech Leads With Multiple Large Deals, Topped By $600M For Space Security Startup True Anomaly

Crunchbase News · May 1, 2026

Large U.S. venture deals this week were led by a massive defense tech raise for space security startup True Anomaly. We also saw sizable deals for startups applying AI to fintech, marketing, customer service, healthcare and developer tools.

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Technology & AI

Ubuntu services hit by outages after DDoS attack

TechCrunch · May 1, 2026

A group of hacktivists have claimed responsibility for a distributed denial-of-service attack, which has affected several Ubuntu and Canonical websites, and prevented users from updating the Linux-based operating system.

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Pentagon Links With 7 AI Giants After Anthropic Dispute

PYMNTS · May 1, 2026

The Defense Department has signed agreements with seven frontier artificial intelligence (AI) companies, saying these deals will provide it with flexibility and prevent “AI vendor lock.” The agreements with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, Nvidia, Reflection and SpaceX enable the deployment of the companies’ AI capabilities on the Department’s classified networks, the […] The post Pentagon Links With 7 AI Giants After Anthropic Dispute appeared first on PYMNTS.com.

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Finance

Smoothie King plots expansion as wellness trends boost sales

CNBC Markets · May 1, 2026

Smoothie King's system-wide sales have climbed 64% over the last five years.

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IPO

The IPO Buzz: Seaport Therapeutics Increases IPO’s Size & Prices it at $18 – Top of Range

IPO Scoop · May 1, 2026

Seaport Therapeutics (SPTX), a Boston-based biotech developing drugs to treat major depression, increased its IPO’s size at pricing – to 14.16 million shares – up from 11.8 million in the prospectus – and priced its IPO at $18.00 – the top of its range – to raise $254.88 million on  Thursday night, April 30, 2026. Shares […]

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VC & Startups

Data: The Seed Funding Boom Is Concentrating Capital In The San Francisco Bay Area

Crunchbase News · May 1, 2026

In 2025, the Bay Area expanded its dominance of U.S. seed funding — capturing a growing share of both deals and dollars — even as most startups remained geographically dispersed, an analysis of Crunchbase data shows, resulting in a more bifurcated landscape.

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Fintech

Hightouch Valued at $2.75 Billion as AI Agents Transform Enterprise Marketing

PYMNTS · Apr 29, 2026

Hightouch raised $150 million in a Series D funding round to continue expanding the capabilities of its agentic AI marketing platform. The round valued the company at $2.75 billion, Hightouch said in a Wednesday (April 29) press release. That is up from the $1.2 billion valuation the company achieved in a February 2025 Series […] The post Hightouch Valued at $2.75 Billion as AI Agents Transform Enterprise Marketing appeared first on PYMNTS.com.

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Finance

Yum Brands earnings top estimates, fueled by Taco Bell’s 8% same-store sales growth

CNBC Markets · Apr 29, 2026

Taco Bell's same-store sales increased 8% in the quarter, fueling the company's outperformance.

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Technology & AI

Apple loses bid to pause App Store fee changes as case heads to Supreme Court

TechCrunch · Apr 29, 2026

Apple lost its bid to pause court-ordered App Store payment changes, keeping external purchase links in place as its case with Epic heads toward the Supreme Court.

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VC & Startups

Exclusive: Supabase Execs Were So Impressed With Dreambase, They Became Investors In Its $3.7M Round

Crunchbase News · Apr 29, 2026

Dreambase, an AI-powered analytics platform that aims to help people build data-driven companies without hiring a data team, has raised $3.7 million in funding, it tells Crunchbase News exclusively.

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IPO

The IPO Buzz: Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square Raises $5 Billion in IPO & Private Placement

IPO Scoop · Apr 29, 2026

Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square USA Ltd. (PSUS), a closed-end fund, and Pershing Square Inc. (PS), the management company for Ackman’s funds, raised about $5 billion through a combined IPO and private placement on Tuesday night, April 28, 2026, the company said. The IPO was priced at $50.00 per share. The private placement alone raised about […]

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