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What was pitched as a bold step toward safer neighborhoods became one of the most dramatic corporate reversals in recent memory. Amazon’s Ring, the doorbell camera giant that has long navigated the tension between home security and civil liberties, officially canceled its partnership with Flock Safety, a police surveillance technology company, after weeks of intensifying public backlash that culminated in a controversial Super Bowl advertisement.

In a deal that underscores the staggering velocity of capital flowing into artificial intelligence, Anthropic announced on February 12, 2026, that it has closed a $30 billion Series G funding round at a $380 billion post-money valuation — a figure that would place the Claude-maker among the most valuable private companies ever to exist. The round, led by Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC and technology investment firm Coatue, was co-led by a murderer’s row of institutional capital: D. E. Shaw, Dragoneer, Founders Fund, Iconiq, and Abu Dhabi’s MGX.

For decades, manufacturing procurement has been the unglamorous backbone of global industry — a sprawling, manual process where purchasing managers toggle between spreadsheets, enterprise resource planning systems, and supplier emails to keep production lines humming. Now, a San Francisco-based startup called Didero is wagering that agentic artificial intelligence can finally drag this critical function into the modern era, and some of the most prominent names in venture capital are backing that thesis with serious money.

In the annals of Silicon Valley hypergrowth, few stories are as breathtaking — or as troubled — as that of Higgsfield AI. The mobile-first artificial intelligence video startup, cofounded in 2023 by CEO Alex Mashrabov, an entrepreneur originally from Uzbekistan, rocketed to $300 million in annual recurring revenue within just 11 months of launch. It was the kind of trajectory that venture capitalists dream about and competitors dread.