Why Are AI Megadeals Chasing **$50B** War Chests? 💰🤖🌍

TL;DR

• OpenAI courting Middle East for $50B compute
• Humans& lands a $480M mega-seed round
• Medical AI player hits $12B valuation milestone
• New AI law in Korea reshapes safety obligations

HEADLINES

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman shopping $50B Middle East funding 🌍🔗

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang calls AI biggest infra boom ⚙️🔗

South Korea enacts first comprehensive safe AI law ⚖️🔗

China MIIT reports 6,000 AI firms, 1,590 EFLOPS 📈🔗

Dell’s Walid Yehia outlines UAE public-sector AI adoption trends 🏛️🔗

FROM THE BIG PLAYERS

SV Angel invested $480M seed in Humans& 🧠🔗

Eclipse Ventures co-led $30M Seed2 in AheadComputing 🖥️🔗

Coatue Management committing $1B+ to Anthropic 🤖🔗

RAISES

Humans& raised $480M seed led by SV Angel 🚀🔗

AheadComputing raised $30M Seed2 for AI CPUs 🔌🔗

OpenEvidence raised $250M in Series D round 💉🔗

RAISING

Anthropic seeking $10B+ in oversubscribed mega-round 🌋🔗

SambaNova hunting $300M–$500M after stalled Intel talks 🧱🔗

OpenAI exploring $50B raise from Gulf sovereigns 🏜️🔗

NEW LAUNCHES

Wix launched Wix Harmony AI website builder 🌐🔗

CODIT unveiled ChatCODIT AI regulatory policy agent 📜🔗

OpenAI announced Stargate Community energy-aligned infra plan ⚡🔗

TRY THESE TOOLS

Wix Harmony instant AI-built, chat-editable websites 🧩🔗

Claude Code agentic AI coding workspace for developers 💻🔗

Zipline App orders AI-guided drone deliveries in minutes 📦🔗

METRICS

OpenAI annualized revenue tops $20B in 2025 📊🔗

OpenAI compute demand reaches 1.9GW data-center load 🔌🔗

Humans& closes $480M seed at $4.48B 📈🔗

OpenEvidence valuation jumps to $12B, $700M raised 📌🔗

China MIIT counts 6,000 AI firms, 1.2T yuan core industry 🇨🇳🔗

BENCHMARKS

CIMB Private Banking flags AI as 2026 macro driver 📘🔗

China MIIT projects core AI industry ¥1.2T 2025 🔭🔗

Dell Technologies sees AI adding 14% to UAE GDP 📊🔗

INFRA & COSTS

Nvidia says AI driving largest infra buildout 🏗️🔗

AheadComputing funds RISC-V CPUs for AI data centers 🔋🔗

OpenAI targets 30GW, $1.4T compute expansion ⚡🔗

Zipline raises $600M+ for autonomous delivery infrastructure 🚁🔗

VALUATIONS

Humans& hits $4.48B valuation at seed 🏷️🔗

OpenEvidence doubles valuation to $12B since October 💊🔗

Zipline climbs to $7.6B post-raise 🚀🔗

Anthropic projected financing exceeds $20B commitments 📌🔗

POLICY

South Korea implements world’s first comprehensive AI law ⚖️🔗

Korea’s AI Basic Act introduces binding AI safety, transparency rules 🛡️🔗

Schellman outlines compliance steps for Korea’s AI regime 📑🔗

WiCyS AI Affiliate hosts AI governance GRC frameworks session 🧩🔗

SOVEREIGN

OpenAI courts Gulf state-backed funds for $50B 🏛️🔗

India–Korea discuss sovereign AI, chips, energy collaboration 🤝🔗

Cambodia FSA prepares AI integration rules for non-bank finance 📜🔗

China Policy Makers back AI industry to ¥1.2T scale 🇨🇳🔗

SECTORS

Logistics & Retail deployed AI-guided last-mile drone delivery 🚁🔗

Healthcare deployed AI clinical decision-support chatbot 🩺🔗

Public Sector (UAE) deployed AI to digitize government services 🏛️🔗

Legal & Government explored AI for civic infrastructure, justice 📚🔗

African Tech Ecosystem showcased LLM, agentic AI production use 🌍🔗

COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT

Debola Ibiyode convened AI in Action 2026 Lagos conference 🎤🔗