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On Sept. 16, 2026, Novo Nordisk and Anthropic expanded an existing relationship into a drug-discovery collaboration. The two will work on R&D problems picked by Novo's scientists and computational teams and build tools for 'biological reasoning', starting with a trial of Claude Science on specific R&D workflows. It gives Anthropic a top-10 global pharma reference customer for its life-sciences push weeks before its planned IPO.

Source: Reuters

Crusoe announced on Sept. 15, 2026 a multi-year partnership under which Perplexity will run its full model lifecycle on Crusoe Cloud — training frontier models on dedicated NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 clusters with NVIDIA InfiniBand and serving them in production through Crusoe's Managed Inference service. In return Crusoe will deploy Perplexity Enterprise Pro and Max to its 1,800 employees; no contract value or capacity figure was disclosed. A named multi-year anchor customer strengthens forward revenue visibility for Crusoe's GPU cloud as it scales its vertically integrated build-out.

Source: Crusoe

On Sept. 16, 2026, Impulse Space announced a $308M extension to its Series D, taking the round to $808M after the $500M June tranche at a $4.26B valuation. A source told Reuters the extension values the company at $5.4B; backers include existing investors 137 Ventures, BANNER VC, DFJ Growth, Linse Capital, Lux Capital and Valor Equity Partners. Impulse also named ex-Vizio CFO Adam Townsend as its first CFO and said its 2028 Caravan 2 and 3 Helios rideshare missions are sold out, lifting its private valuation about 27% in three months.

Source: Impulse Space

On Sept. 16, 2026, Legora announced that Salesforce has selected it for its legal teams in the US, Europe and APAC, to support research, drafting and other workflows alongside Salesforce's own Slack and Agentforce tools. Salesforce VP Erica Swainson and Legora CEO Max Junestrand both commented in the release. A global rollout at a company that builds much of its own legal tech is a marquee in-house win for Legora beyond law firms.

Source: Legora

Salesforce announced on September 16, 2026, during Dreamforce, that it is expanding Missionforce, its AI platform for government agencies, and forming a new partnership with OpenAI under which Missionforce plans to integrate OpenAI's frontier models for government missions; it also announced an NVIDIA partnership. Financial terms were not disclosed. The deal adds a large enterprise channel into public-sector customers for OpenAI after its GSA OneGov agreement.

Source: Salesforce

Bloomberg reported on Sept 16, 2026, citing people familiar with the matter, that drone-delivery company Zipline is discussing a new round of about $1B that would value it at roughly $20B, almost three times its previous valuation. The Information separately reported the company nearing a $20B valuation in new funding talks. The talks are early and size and terms could change, but a close would reset Zipline's valuation benchmark and fund expansion of its autonomous delivery network.

Source: Bloomberg

The Information reported on 15 September 2026, citing three people familiar with ByteDance's finances, that first-half 2026 revenue reached about $120 billion, up roughly 30% year on year on TikTok international advertising and e-commerce, while net profit fell to about $20 billion as AI spending rose. The WSJ carried the same disclosure on 16 September. Half-year revenue near Meta's scale with visibly compressed margins resets the earnings base that secondary-market buyers use to price ByteDance stock.

Source: The Information

The Financial Times reported on September 15, 2026 that OpenAI has opened early talks with investors on a new pre-IPO financing that could value it at more than $1.2 trillion, roughly 41% above the $852 billion post-money valuation of its March 2026 round. The New York Times put the figure as high as $1.5 trillion on September 16, and Bloomberg, Reuters and the Wall Street Journal carried the same report the same day. A primary round at that level would reset the reference price for every OpenAI secondary trade.

Source: Reuters

Cohesity introduced Cohesity Agent Resilience at its Catalyst conference on 16 September 2026, a Data Cloud capability that backs up the memory and configuration of enterprise AI agents so they can be restored to a trusted state after prompt injection or misbehaviour, using the same immutable backups and clean-room recovery as its existing workloads. Cohesity also set out a plan to automate its five-step cyber-resilience framework with agentic workflows, part of which is generally available now, and opened an AI Resilience Academy course. The launch extends Cohesity's data-protection platform into AI agent infrastructure, widening its addressable market.

Source: SiliconANGLE

On September 16, 2026 HubSpot and OpenAI expanded their partnership. Businesses can now build, manage and measure ChatGPT Ads campaigns inside HubSpot, and HubSpot's ChatGPT connector gets new features; HubSpot says the connector's weekly active users are up 250%. They also launched an AI Growth Bundle: up to 65% off HubSpot Starter, buy-one-get-one ChatGPT Business seats for a year, and a $750 ChatGPT Ads spend match for accounts opened by Sep 30. OpenAI named HubSpot its first CRM ads partner and Shopify its first e-commerce ads partner. The deals give OpenAI's new ads business ready-made channels to SMB advertisers.

Source: Business Wire (via Morningstar)

Castelion announced on September 14, 2026 a production delivery order from the U.S. Navy with a total value of up to $200 million to manufacture, assemble, test and deliver an initial lot of Blackbeard Hypersonic Weapons under a SBIR Phase III award. The order transitions Blackbeard from early operational capability prototypes to production rounds for carrier use. It is Castelion's first production lot for the program and a step-change in contracted backlog and revenue visibility.

Source: PR Newswire (Castelion)

Revolut said on 16 September 2026 that it has applied to Swiss regulator FINMA for a banking licence, which would let it migrate its 1.3M-plus Swiss customers off Lithuania-licensed Revolut Bank UAB onto a local entity issuing Swiss IBANs. It committed more than CHF 150M over five years to build the Swiss banking structure, local products and jobs, with executive-board and senior appointments planned; CCO David Tirado and Switzerland GM Julian Biegmann framed it as becoming 'a true Swiss bank'. A licence would turn Switzerland into a deposit-funded home market and extend Revolut's licensed footprint.

Source: Reuters