Maxwell Zeff / Wired:
An interview with OpenAI president Greg Brockman on donating $50M to AI and pro-Trump super PACs, why such donations serve a larger AI mission, and more  —  In an interview with WIRED, Greg Brockman says supporting politicians who back AI is “bigger than the people that I happen to be employed with.”

The Trump administration just eliminated the landmark finding that has underpinned federal regulations on planet-heating pollution since 2009. For nearly the past two decades, the "endangerment finding" has allowed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to craft rules limiting greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. Rather than repealing those rules individually, the Trump administration […]

Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch:
Ever, which says it is the first “AI-native, full-stack” retail marketplace for electric vehicles, raised a $31M Series A led by Eclipse  —  If you want to buy or sell a used EV right now, what's the first step you'd take?  —  A startup called Ever wants to be the answer to that question.

Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
Anthropic says its run-rate revenue hit $14B, growing over 10x annually in the past three years, and Claude Code's run-rate revenue hit $2.5B  —  OpenAI has the largest private tech fundraising round on record.  Rival Anthropic now has the second.  —  Anthropic announced on Thursday …

Anthropic:
Anthropic raised a $30B Series G led by GIC and Coatue and co-led by D. E. Shaw, Dragoneer, Founders Fund, Iconiq, and MGX at a $380B post-money valuation  —  We have raised $30 billion in Series G funding led by GIC and Coatue, valuing Anthropic at $380 billion post-money.