Bloomberg:
Anthropic says Google is committing to invest $10B now in cash at a $350B valuation and will invest another $30B if Anthropic hits performance targets  —  Google will invest $10 billion in Anthropic PBC, with another $30 billion potentially to follow, strengthening the relationship between …

Joe Wertz / Bloomberg:
France's forecasting office refers suspected weather sensor tampering at Paris airport to police, after detecting unusual readings alongside Polymarket betting  —  France's forecasting office flagged suspected tampering with weather sensors at the country's largest airport and referred the case to police …

Gopika Gopakumar / Reuters:
India's central bank cancels Paytm Payments Bank's banking license, after imposing business curbs over non-compliance with rules in January 2024  —  India's central bank said on Friday it has cancelled the banking licence issued to Paytm Payments Bank Limited, more than two years …

Mimi Billing / Sifted:
Helsinki-based Verda, formerly Datacrunch, which aims to become Europe's first AI cloud hyperscaler, raised €100M in debt and equity  —  The Finnish cloud provider, formerly known as Datacrunch, says its success comes from being vertically integrated  —  Helsinki-headquartered Verda …

Matt Day / Bloomberg:
Meta and Amazon reach a multibillion-dollar, multiyear deal for Meta to rent hundreds of thousands of Amazon's Graviton chips for its AI inference needs  —  Amazon.com Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc. have struck a multibillion-dollar deal for the social-media giant to rent hundreds of thousands …