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Here are the 7 things you missed today:
1. 💰 Apollo & Blackstone Are Wrangling $36Bn for Anthropic to Buy Google AI Chips
The largest private credit transaction ever is in the works. Apollo Global Management and Blackstone are working to bring additional investors into a roughly $36 billion debt financing deal for Anthropic to acquire Google’s custom tensor processing units (TPUs) and lease them back to Anthropic for deployment at data centers across New York, Texas, Louisiana, and Indiana. (Quartz)
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3. 🤑 AI Chip Startup Groq is Raising $650M
In December, Groq (not to be confused with X’s Grok) struck an acqui-hire agreement with Nvidia for a reported $20 billion to move some top-level Groq employees to Nvidia and license its hardware technology to the tech giant. Now, the AI chip startup is looking to raise $650 million in new funding from existing investors to lean into its interference neocloud business that relies on its homegrown AI chip & systems. (TechCrunch)
4. 💸 CEO Report Study Found Thousands in Ad Spend Misallocated
One of your fellow readers reached out to us recently about their paid media. The results were there, but attributing them to exact channels... nightmare.
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5. 🤝 Mistral AI Signed Deals With Airbus & BMW
It’s a big week for Mistral AI. The French AI startup just signed a five-year partnership with Airbus and a separate agreement with BMW, marking the company’s push into industrial engineering applications. Airbus will acquire licenses for Mistral’s full product suite and BMW will collaborate with Mistral on training AI models using the automaker’s archive of crash simulation data. (Quartz)
6. 😮💨 Google is Loosening Gemini’s New Usage Limits
Did you find Gemini’s new usage limits too limiting? Well, so did a lot of other users. The company switched to a compute-based usage system last week at I/O 2026 from its previous prompt-based limits, which now weighs factors like request complexity, tool usage, and conversation length. Now, it’s placing a ceiling on the amount of quota any single prompt can consume to help users avoid rapidly draining their allowances with large files or complex requests. (Quartz)
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7. 🗣️ Apple’s Dramatic Siri Overhaul is Coming
A new Siri is coming, probably at Apple’s WWDC in almost a week. But a report from Bloomberg is offering an early preview of the update with illustrations of what the Gemini-powered AI agent will look like. If the preview is to be believed, Siri will soon live inside the iPhone’s Dynamic Island and users will be able to swipe down to bring up a new “Search or Ask” interface. (Engadget)
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