The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Transportation And Biotech Take The Lead

Another week, another infusion of big AI rounds.

This week, just half of the top 10 rounds crossed the $100 million mark, which is somewhat unusual in this high-flying era for venture megarounds. Nonetheless some large checks did get written, led by Amazon’s $5 billion investment and partnership deal with Anthropic.

S-1 filings have been plentiful the past few weeks for venture-backed startups providing semiconductors, nuclear and geothermal power, biotech, and space and defense tech queuing up for a possible trip to the public markets.

Infosys said the integration will be used to help its clients modernize software development, automate workflows and deploy AI systems, initially focusing software engineering, legacy modernization, and DevOps.

Anthropic has today released a new, improved Claude model, Opus 4.7, but has deliberately built it to be less capable than the highly-anticipated Claude Mythos. Anthropic calls Opus 4.7 a “notable improvement” over Opus 4.6, offering advanced software engineering capabilities and improved visioning, memory, instruction-following, and financial analysis. However, the yet-to-be-released (and inadvertently leaked) Mythos seems to overshadow the Opus 4.7 release. Interestingly, Anthropic itself is downplaying Opus 4.7 to an extent, calling it “not as advanced” and “less broadly capable” than the Claude Mythos Preview. The Opus upgrade also comes on the heels of the launch of Project Glasswing, Anthropic’s security initiative that uses Claude Mythos Preview to identify and fix cybersecurity vulnerabilities. “For once in technological history, a product is being released with a marketing message that is focused more on what it does not do than on what it does,” said technology analyst Carmi

Anthropic has today released a new, improved Claude model, Opus 4.7, but has deliberately built it to be less capable than the highly-anticipated Claude Mythos. Anthropic calls Opus 4.7 a “notable improvement” over Opus 4.6, offering advanced software engineering capabilities and improved visioning, memory, instruction-following, and financial analysis. However, the yet-to-be-released (and inadvertently leaked) Mythos seems to overshadow the Opus 4.7 release. Interestingly, Anthropic itself is downplaying Opus 4.7 to an extent, calling it “not as advanced” and “less broadly capable” than the Claude Mythos Preview. The Opus upgrade also comes on the heels of the launch of Project Glasswing, Anthropic’s security initiative that uses Claude Mythos Preview to identify and fix cybersecurity vulnerabilities. “For once in technological history, a product is being released with a marketing message that is focused more on what it does not do than on what it does,” said technology analyst Carmi

When Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Aloe Blacc got COVID despite being vaccinated and boosted, he tried to fund research for a better solution. What he quickly found out? You can’t just write a check in biotech. Regulators require a commercialization plan, and philanthropy doesn’t move science through clinical trials or get you a license on university IP. Now, he’s bootstrapping a cancer drug platform targeting pancreatic cancer, a disease that […]

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