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FundingUniversal, Sony and Warner Music became investors in the company behind Stable Diffusion2026-08-25 · Stability AI's new $76 million round is led entirely by the entertainment industry it spent the past year signing licensing deals with. Three major music groups and Electronic Arts are now equity holders as well as partners.FundingNvidia recruited Wall Street to help finance $500 billion of AI infrastructure2026-08-24 · Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR will run financing platforms that lend Nvidia customers money to build data centers and buy Nvidia hardware, funded mostly by third-party capital.FundingStripe is buying the switchboard that routes AI apps between models2026-08-19 · OpenRouter built the layer that lets a company swap GPT for Claude for Gemini without rewriting its code. Stripe is acquiring it for a reported $7 billion-plus, betting that deciding which model handles a request is now a payments problem.FundingEtched doubled its valuation to $21 billion in a month -- with its new lead investor as its first paying customer2026-08-18 · The AI inference-chip startup's $700 million Series D was led by Jane Street, which also just took delivery of the company's first production rack -- a funding round and a customer contract announced in the same breath.FundingSpaceX closed its $60 billion purchase of the company behind Cursor2026-08-14 · The all-stock deal, structured as an acquisition option back in April, then exercised as SpaceX went public, folds the widely used AI coding tool into the same division building Grok, giving it a direct line to SpaceX's GPU fleet. Follow along: Funding RSS feed or all news. Every feed carries the full text of each story.
