How Did AI Capital Hit $18B Overnight? 💰🤖⚡

TL;DR

• a16z gathered over $15B for AI-heavy funds
• Data-center players drew multi-billion equity rounds
• Insurance and biotech leaned harder into AI pipelines
• Lawmakers worldwide rushed chatbot safety, liability bills

HEADLINES

Elon Musk’s xAI quarterly loss widens to $1.46B 📉🔗

Gmail unveils biggest-ever AI inbox revamp 📬🔗

CES 2026 closes with AI dominating show floor 🎪🔗

Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis weighs ChatGPT vs Gemini traffic 📊🔗

xAI’s Grok limits image generation after deepfake furor 🚫🔗

FROM THE BIG PLAYERS

Andreessen Horowitz invested $15B across five tech funds 🏦🔗

OpenAI and SoftBank invested $1B in SB Energy ⚡🔗

Allianz SE partnered with Anthropic to deploy responsible AI in insurance 🤝🔗

Jefferies upgraded Meta on aggressive AI monetization thesis 📈🔗

RAISES

DayOne Data Centers raised $2B in Series C expansion 🏗️🔗

Corgi Insurance raised $108M to launch AI-native carrier 📊🔗

bit.bio raised $50M Series C for AI-driven cell models 🧫🔗

Soley Therapeutics raised $200M Series C for AI-enabled biotech 🧬🔗

Articul8 raised partial Series B at $500M valuation 🏥🔗

RAISING

Anthropic is looking to raise $10B in a growth round for data centers and GPUs 🚀🔗

Nscale is looking to raise $2B in an infrastructure round for AI data centers 🏭🔗

Spangle is raising follow-on capital after $15M seed for AI commerce optimization 🛒🔗

NEW LAUNCHES

LLVision launched Leion Hey2 AI translation glasses 🕶️🔗

Hyderabad Police unveiled Cyber Mitra AI fraud-report assistant 🛡️🔗

Google announced AI-powered Gmail writing and triage overhaul ✉️🔗

Dreame Technology unveiled CES-winning AI robotic-arm air conditioner ❄️🔗

TRY THESE TOOLS

Microsoft Copilot Shopping enables in-chat product discovery and purchase 🛍️🔗

TikTok Effect House AI Editor lets creators build generative effects 🎨🔗

Adobe Express Generative AI offers classroom-ready image and text tools 🖌️🔗

Be10X AI Tools Workshop teaches ChatGPT-powered productivity workflows 📚🔗

METRICS

ChatGPT daily visits fell 22% in six weeks 📉🔗

TSMC Q4 revenue hit NT$1.05T, up ~20% 📈🔗

xAI reported quarterly net loss of $1.46B 🔻🔗

Generative AI in insurance market projected to reach $5.13B by 2029 📐🔗

Germany’s Mittelstand cut AI spend to 0.35% of revenue 🇩🇪🔗

BENCHMARKS

Pew / Gallup found 21% of U.S. workers use AI at work 📘🔗

AI-skilled roles pay 28% more than non-AI jobs 💼🔗

Generative AI insurance projected 36% CAGR through 2029 📊🔗

Mittelstand firms now invest 30% less in AI than market average 🏭🔗

INFRA & COSTS

SB Energy secured $1B for AI-ready data centers ⚡🔗

DayOne Data Centers raised $2B to scale hyperscale AI campuses 🏗️🔗

Vantage Data Centers locked in 1 GW on-site power partnership 🔌🔗

TSMC beat forecasts as AI chips drove NT$1.05T quarter 🖥️🔗

Evercore ISI flagged AI capex as key 2026 cost driver 💡🔗

VALUATIONS

Anthropic targeting $350B valuation in ongoing raise 🏷️🔗

Rain hit $1.95B valuation after $250M Series C 🪙🔗

Articul8 reached $500M pre-money valuation in Series B 📌🔗

Reliance Jio eyed at $180B ahead of AI-boosted IPO 📶🔗

POLICY

Transparency Coalition tracked new U.S. state AI chatbot safety bills ⚖️🔗

Moody’s warned of widening AI cyber risk regulation gaps 🛡️🔗

UK Government criticized Grok image changes as “insulting” 🇬🇧🔗

Haryana Government launched AI-based voice portal for participatory budgeting 🗳️🔗

SOVEREIGN

Indonesia Investment Authority backed DayOne’s $2B AI data-center Series C 🏛️🔗

GIC positioned to co-lead Anthropic’s $10B mega-round 🌏🔗

Global SWF reported $66B sovereign AI, digitalization spend 🌐🔗

Saudi PIF emerged as top 2025 sovereign dealmaker 🕌🔗

SECTORS

Healthcare deployed triage and diagnostic AI tools 🏥🔗

Insurance deployed AI underwriting, claims automation stacks 🧾🔗

Public Safety deployed AI assistants for cybercrime reporting 🚓🔗

Consumer Electronics deployed on-device generative and embodied AI 📱🔗

Government Finance deployed AI chatbots for participatory budgeting feedback 🏛️🔗

COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT

Silicon Networks hosted founders workshop on AI-led enterprise growth 🌐🔗