Connects the big national tech story to its Austin angle.
Elon Musk's rocket company staged the largest IPO in history, and it tied the listing directly to Texas.
The service now covers the entire Austin metro, though the fleet running it remains small.
A June order adds voluntary pre-release model assessments and advances a strategy to preempt a patchwork of state AI laws.
The Series H values Anthropic at $965 billion post-money and arrives days before a confidential IPO filing.
The chipmaker's profit tripled year over year, and it pointed to $1 trillion in confirmed AI chip demand through 2027.
The company called it the biggest change to its Search box in over 25 years and introduced an agentic Gemini model.
The Central Texas plant is gearing up to make Tesla's next-generation AI chips under a $16.5 billion deal.
Four of the five largest venture rounds ever recorded closed in a single quarter, and AI took the vast majority of the dollars.
OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank pushed the data-center venture toward 7 gigawatts and more than $400 billion in planned investment.
Musk's AI company closed its Series E above target and bought a third Memphis building to expand the world's largest single-site training cluster.
