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The Information reported on 2026-10-07, citing a person familiar with the matter, that Nvidia has discussed investing another $1 billion in Figure AI. The report says Figure is trying to raise additional financing at roughly a $38 billion pre-money valuation, with no closing date or final terms established. It points to a new primary round for Figure with an existing strategic investor, priced roughly level with its $39 billion post-money Series C of September 2025.

Source: The Information

AlphaSense announced SuperAnalyst on 6 October 2026, an always-on, autonomous AI agent that plans, executes, monitors and updates multi-step financial and strategic workflows on top of the company's library of filings, earnings calls, broker research, channel checks and 300,000 proprietary expert interviews. The agent targets workflows such as portfolio monitoring, M&A diligence, market assessment and competitive intelligence for customers the company names including Bank of America, J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia and Pfizer. Moving from search to automated workflow execution expands AlphaSense's addressable spend per enterprise customer.

Source: AlphaSense

The Wall Street Journal reported on 6 October 2026 that Nvidia-backed AI cloud company Lambda is raising up to $4 billion at a pre-money valuation of $14.5 billion, in what would be its final private round before a planned 2027 IPO. Reuters carried the report the same day. The raise resets Lambda's valuation mark and puts a date on an IPO, both directly relevant to secondary pricing of its shares.

Source: The Wall Street Journal

Kalshi launched a perpetual futures contract tied to its US 500 index, covering 500 of the largest U.S. companies, on Tuesday 6 October 2026, Reuters reported. The contract lets traders take long or short exposure without owning the underlying shares and follows an August 2026 regulatory filing for equity-index perpetuals. The launch opens a new product line for Kalshi in direct competition with traditional derivatives exchanges and crypto venues.

Source: Reuters

Bloomberg reported on 6 October 2026 that Waymo increased the size of its inaugural private debt raise to $5 billion, tapping lenders including Pimco and Blackstone to help fund its growth. It is the Alphabet-owned robotaxi company's first debt financing, upsized from the amount previously sought. A $5B non-equity capital base lets Waymo fund fleet and geographic expansion without further dilution of its equity holders.

Source: Bloomberg

On 6 October 2026 Mistral AI launched a public preview of Mistral Large 4, nicknamed 'Le Chonk', a natively multimodal model with 1 trillion parameters and 49 billion active parameters, available through the Mistral Studio API with open weights due at the end of the month. Mistral says the model was trained from scratch on 3,800 Nvidia Grace Blackwell GPUs in its own European datacentres and claims performance competitive with the strongest open-source models globally. It is Mistral's largest and most capable model to date and its first frontier release since its EUR 3 billion round, bearing directly on its competitive position with enterprise and sovereign customers.

Source: Mistral AI

In an interview published 6 October 2026, ElevenLabs CEO and co-founder Mati Staniszewski told CNBC-TV18 that India has become the company's second-largest market after the US and that revenue now crosses a $600 million annual run rate. He said ElevenLabs plans to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in India, is building local go-to-market, engineering, research and forward-deployed engineering teams, and that Eleven v4 supports 14 Indian languages today with a target of all 22 official languages; named Indian users include Physicswallah, Cars24, Razorpay and Havells. The disclosure establishes India as a second core revenue geography for a voice-AI company last valued at $22B.

Source: CNBC-TV18

TechCrunch reported on 2026-10-05, citing people familiar, that AI inference-chip startup Etched is reviewing incoming bids ranging from $40 billion from top-tier investors to $50 billion from lesser-known backers, a couple of months after it raised $700 million at a $21 billion valuation led by Jane Street. The talks are early and Etched declined to comment. If a deal is struck it would roughly double the company's mark.

Source: TechCrunch

On 6 October 2026 Anduril and the White House unveiled Arsenal-2, a 2 million-square-foot 'software-defined' shipyard at Tradepoint Atlantic in Sparrows Point, Baltimore County, Maryland, backed by a $6.6 billion commitment of which $3.7 billion is Anduril private capital. The US Navy awarded Anduril a contract worth up to $2.9 billion to support Virginia-class submarine component production, with the yard slated to begin operations in 2030 and create about 3,100 jobs; some parts, including torpedo tubes, will be made at a 160,000-square-foot facility in Orange County. The award and build-out move Anduril into the submarine industrial base and materially expand both its revenue base and its capital commitments.

Source: CNBC

On 6 October 2026 Sierra announced Personal Agent Protocol, an open standard it is developing with Meta and industry partners Genesys, Instinct, Rocket, Shopify, Stripe and Walmart, defining how consumers' personal AI agents authenticate and interact with businesses over websites, APIs and company agents. CNBC reported the same day that Sierra co-founder Bret Taylor is leading the initiative, which is open for anyone to implement. Anchoring an interoperability standard alongside Meta and Walmart places Sierra at the centre of consumer-to-business agent commerce rather than only supplying customer-service agents.

Source: Sierra

On 6 October 2026 AlphaSense said an additional 6 of the world's 10 largest investment banks selected it in its most recent quarter, taking it to 18 of the world's 20 leading investment banks. The company disclosed over 10,000 new investment banking users added in Q3 and investment banking annual recurring revenue growing 75% year-over-year, across more than 100 investment banks and 8,000 enterprise customers. Disclosed seat and ARR growth in its fastest-growing segment is a direct read on AlphaSense's enterprise revenue trajectory.

Source: AlphaSense

Reflection AI unveiled Beam on 5 October 2026, its first frontier open-weight model: a text-only mixture-of-experts model with 501B total and 23B active parameters, pre-trained on 23.8T tokens with a 1M-token context window. The company claims performance on par with Z.ai's GLM-5.2 on advanced reasoning benchmarks while using 3-4x less inference compute than leading Western open models; these claims are not independently verified. It is the first shipped product from the Nvidia-backed lab and the proof point behind its valuation and compute commitments.

Source: TechCrunch