The Wire · Funding
Who raised, who bought whom, and at what price — funding rounds, valuations, and deals across the AI stack, tracked as they break.
GLM-5.2 ships open MIT weights with coding scores four points behind Claude Opus and a sixth the cost, 48 hours after US export controls pulled a frontier model.
201 points, 53 comments on HN
Read full story →Ambani's plan to embed AI into calls, apps, and homes puts AI features in front of more than 500 million Indian subscribers.
Read full story →The mobility firm eyes acquisitions and autonomous fleets following a listing that revived Japan's IPO market.
Read full story →Most of the capital sits in a few firms, signaling where long-horizon power bets for datacenters are concentrating.
Proposed legislation would route AI profits to $1,000 citizen dividends, a long-shot policy that won't move builder economics soon.
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