New York Times:
A profile of Palmer Luckey and his startup Anduril, which has more than $6B in global contracts, had roughly $2B in revenue last year, and is valued at ~$31B  —  Within minutes of arriving at a security conference with U.S. defense and intelligence officials in December …

Dan Primack / Axios:
Anthropic's $60B+ in funding, half of which came just last month, from over 200 investors is now at risk due to the company's contract dispute with the Pentagon  —  Anthropic has raised more than $60 billion from over 200 “venture capital” investors, half of which came just last month.

Financial Times:
Sources: Reflection AI, which is developing open foundation models, seeks to raise $2B+ at a $20B+ valuation, after raising $2B at an $8B valuation in October  —  Reflection AI's new funding talks come as Trump administration seeks US rivals to China's DeepSeek

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
X announces a “Paid Partnership” label that creators can apply to their posts to indicate they're ads; until now, creators relied on hashtags to label posts  —  Social network X on Monday announced the introduction of a new “Paid Partnership” label that creators can apply to their posts to indicate they're advertisements.

Blake Brittain / Reuters:
SCOTUS declines to hear a dispute over copyrights for AI-generated material, in a case where a computer scientist was denied a copyright for AI-generated art  —  The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to take up the issue of whether art generated by artificial intelligence …