Taylor Soper / GeekWire:
Seattle-based Gradial, which makes AI tools that automate enterprise marketing workflows, raised a $35M Series B led by VMG Partners at a $350M valuation  —  Seattle startup Gradial raised a $35 million Series B round to expand its AI platform that automates the behind-the-scenes work of enterprise marketing.

Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Sam Altman reached out to at least one rocket maker, Stoke Space, last summer for OpenAI to secure a controlling stake; the talks are no longer active  —  The OpenAI CEO has publicly talked about the possibility of building ‘a rocket company’ and the potential for developing data centers in space

Bloomberg:
Intel shelves plans to spin off or sell a stake in its networking division NEX, after deciding that the business is more likely to succeed as an internal unit  —  Intel Corp. said it's shelving plans to spin off or sell a stake in its networking division, after the company decided it's more likely to succeed as an internal unit.

Kelly Cloonan / Wall Street Journal:
Snowflake and Anthropic announce a multi-year $200M deal to make Anthropic's Claude models available on Snowflake and deploy AI agents across enterprises  —  The deal will make Anthropic's large models available on the company's platform  —  Snowflake entered into a $200 million deal …

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