Michelle - ArtificialDaily - AI News & Analysis

OpenAI raises $110B in one of the largest private funding rounds in hi

February 27, 2026 Michelle

The new funding consists of a $50 billion investment from Amazon as well as $30 billion each from Nvidia and SoftBank, against a $730 billion valuation.

Business

Trump Orders Federal Ban on Anthropic AI Amid Pentagon Standoff Over Military Use

February 27, 2026 Michelle

President Trump directs all federal agencies to immediately cease using Anthropic technology, escalating a high-stakes dispute over AI ethics, military applications, and the balance of power between Silicon Valley and…

Research

New method could increase LLM training efficiency

February 27, 2026 Michelle

By leveraging idle computing time, researchers can double the speed of model training while preserving accuracy....

Funding

Railway secures $100 million to challenge AWS with AI-native cloud inf

February 27, 2026 Michelle

Railway, a San Francisco-based cloud platform that has quietly amassed two million developers without spending a dollar on marketing, announced Thursday that it raised $100 million...

Daily Brief

Musk bashes OpenAI in deposition, saying ‘nobody committed suicide bec

February 27, 2026 Michelle

In his lawsuit against OpenAI, Musk touted xAI safety compared with ChatGPT. A few months later, xAI's Grok flooded X with nonconsensual nude images....

Daily Brief

Pentagon moves to designate Anthropic as a supply-chain risk

February 27, 2026 Michelle

"We don't need it, we don't want it, and will not do business with them again," the president wrote in the post....

Funding

Last 24 hours to get TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 tickets at the lowest rat

February 27, 2026 Michelle

The lowest rates of the year for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 end after today. Prices go up at 11:59 p.m. PT. Don't miss connecting with 10,000 founders, investors, and operators, and…

Daily Brief

Employees at Google and OpenAI support Anthropic’s Pentagon stand in o

February 27, 2026 Michelle

While Anthropic has an existing partnership with the Pentagon, the AI company has remained firm that its technology not be used for mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous w...

Funding