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Abnormal AI has expanded its partnership with OpenAI to accelerate secure enterprise AI adoption and strengthen cyber defense capabilities.

Source: PYMNTS.com

Stripe's net revenue grew 41% year-over-year in the first half of 2026, according to a new report, underscoring the payments company's continued strong growth trajectory.

Source: Seeking Alpha

OpenAI has announced new customer privacy protections, promising not to store or train on business customer data, in a direct bid to win enterprise customers away from Anthropic.

Source: WSJ

Base Power is opening a new 325,000-square-foot factory in the first half of 2027, marking a significant expansion of its manufacturing capacity for home battery systems.

Source: The Business Journals

Tesla has lowered the rental cost of its Powerwall home batteries in Texas, intensifying competition with Base Power, which offers home battery rentals starting at $19 per month.

Source: Межа. Новини України.

Etched announced that it has raised another $700 million at a $21 billion valuation, led by Jane Street after the famed quant fund tested and bought the startup’s AI hardware.Even by AI standards, this valuation step-up is jaw-droppingly fast. Etched was valued at $5 billion in December. It raised a $300 million Series C at a $10.3 billion valuation in July. Now investors have doubled its valuation to $21 billion, up nearly $11 billion, in a month.Etched delivers its AI tech as full systems that it calls “frontier inference clusters.” (Etched competitor Nvidia calls its full systems AI factories.)

Source: TechCrunch

Harvey has launched Harvey II, its next-generation AI legal platform featuring its first purpose-built LLM for legal work and memory capabilities at its core.

Source: WSJ

Anthropic is reportedly in talks to acquire Decart AI, according to a source cited by Reuters, marking a potential M&A move by the AI lab.

Source: Reuters

Crusoe is discussing a potential initial public offering with JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Bank of America, Axios Pro reported Monday. The talks come as the data-center developer and power supplier expands its AI infrastructure portfolio.

Source: Axios Pro

Blue Origin has outlined plans for and begun construction of a second launch pad at Cape Canaveral, expanding its launch infrastructure on Florida's Space Coast.

Source: SpaceNews

Alibaba's Qwen 3.8-27B model has topped the Hugging Face global model trend rankings, signaling strong momentum for the open-source model on the platform.

Source: GuruFocus

Canary Data has partnered with Perplexity to bring professional-grade investment research capabilities into Perplexity's AI workflows, expanding the platform's financial data offerings.

Source: FinancialContent