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Tech’s old guard is racing back into AI’s front line

The AI talent shift is pulling top founders and executives back into hands-on roles at Anthropic and new startups as the race intensifies.

Nous Research is reportedly raising at least $75M at a $1.5B valuation as demand for AI agents and Hermes heats up.

A Danish study shows quantum computing can improve an AI peptide discovery model, hinting at faster vaccines and immunotherapies.

AI spending may need $3 trillion in revenue to pay off, as cheaper models and rising infrastructure costs strain the business case.

Anthropic is adding AI subscription pricing fees for Claude Fable 5, signaling a shift from flat-rate plans to usage-based billing.

Voice AI startup Gradium raised $100M in seed funding with Nvidia joining, and will open a Bay Area office to scale faster.

OpenAI, Anthropic and SpaceX could create more tech exits value than all U.S. VC-backed exits since 2000, reshaping IPO expectations.

Open source AI tool Ollama raises $65M as monthly developers near 9 million and open-weight models gain ground in enterprise AI.

AI agents startup Prime Intellect raised $130M at a $1B valuation to help enterprises build custom systems without frontier labs.

Stoke Space names ex-OpenAI executive Kevin Weil to its board as the reusable rocket startup races toward operational launch.