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Sources: xAI has raised $10B at a post-money valuation of $200B, weeks after reportedly raising $10B in debt and equity at a ~$150B valuation (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/19/musks-xai-10-billion-at-200-billion-valuation.html

Elon Musk's xAI raising $10 billion at $200 billion valuation: sources
The fundraising comes weeks after Musk raised $10 billion in debt and equity at what was believed to be a roughly $150 billion valuation, according to Faber.

SoftBank-owned PayPay files for a US listing; sources: PayPay aims to raise $2B at a $10B valuation, and the listing could happen by the end of the year (David Keohane/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/73677866-90fd-447c-9810-cd10051d9ca1

"The Senate’s version of Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill would see the General Services Administration take possession of the nearly 7,200 new postal EVs and associated infrastructure and put the assets up for auction."
Megabill Would Trash $10B In New USPS Electric Trucks - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/06/megabill-would-trash-10b-in-new-usps-electric-trucks/

Spotify’s CEO Daniel Ek has raised €600M for his new startup, which is developing AI TECH FOR WAR.
Ek still owns 9% of Spotify, but has 37% voting control.
His net worth went from $2.5B to $10B in the last two years alone,
-- on the back of paying musicians a pittance in royalties.

Patreon CEO Jack Conte says the platform paid out $10B to creators since its 2013 founding, creators now get $2B annually, and there are 25M paid memberships (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/05/patreon-10-billion-creator-economy-ai
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Exclusive: Patreon crosses $10 billion creator payment milestone
Today, more than $2 billion flows to creators annually on the platform.

SIGIR 2025 -- LiveRAG Challenge Report
David Carmel, Simone Filice, Guy Horowitz, Yoelle Maarek, Oren Somekh, Ran Tavory
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04942 h…

SIGIR 2025 -- LiveRAG Challenge Report
The LiveRAG Challenge at SIGIR 2025, held between March and May 2025, provided a competitive platform for advancing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) technologies. Participants from academia and industry were invited to develop a RAG-based question-answering system using a fixed corpus (Fineweb-10BT) and a common open-source LLM (Falcon3-10B-Instruct). The goal was to facilitate challenging comparisons of retrieval and prompting strategies. During the Live Challenge Day, 70 teams from 27 dif…

Plasma visually bugged following an upgrade on FreeBSD
https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/1lne10b/plasma_visually_bugged_following_an_upgrade_on/

Crypto asset manager CoinShares agrees to go public via SPAC Vine Hill at a $1.2B pre-money valuation, set to close by the end of Q4; CoinShares has ~$10B AUM (Muyao Shen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

Translation: #BigTech has paid #BigTech too much money for CurrentFad
https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/11506

Noon, an Amazon rival in the Middle East that has raised $2.7B since its 2016 launch and is now valued at "close to" $10B, is planning an IPO within two years (Chloe Cornish/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/ba40ea2f-e92c-4fc0-b060-2b0d30454c65

"Gas power plants approved for Meta’s $10B data center, and not everyone is happy"
#Facebook #Meta #Energy #FossilFuels

Gas power plants approved for Meta’s $10B data center, and not everyone is happy | TechCrunch
Meta's massive data center will draw power from three gas-fired power plants producing 2.25 gigawatts.

Filing: Trump's lawyers argue that Rupert Murdoch should be deposed within 15 days because of his advanced age, in the $10B libel suit against Murdoch and WSJ (Katie Robertson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/business/media/trum…

Trump Says Rupert Murdoch Should Be Deposed Within 15 Days in Suit Over Epstein Article
The president’s legal team argued in a legal filing that discovery process for the media mogul should be expedited because of his age and health.

Bret Taylor's Sierra raised $350M at a $10B valuation, up from $4.5B in 2024, and says its AI customer service agents are being used by "hundreds of millions" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/04/bret-taylor-sierra-ai-startup…

Ex-Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor's Sierra is the latest $10 billion AI startup
Bret Taylor's artificial intelligence startup Sierra has closed a $350 million funding round

Patreon CEO Jack Conte says the platform paid out $10B to creators since its 2013 founding, creators now get $2B annually, and there are 25M paid memberships (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/05/patreon-10-billion-creator-economy-ai
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Exclusive: Patreon crosses $10 billion creator payout milestone
Today, more than $2 billion flows to creators annually on the platform.

Source: AI contractor marketplace Mercor has received investment offers valuing it as high as $10B, just six months after raising $100M at a $2B valuation (Katie Roof/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/mercor-field…

Mercor Fields $10 Billion-Valuation Offers in ‘Pre-emptive’ Onslaught
The frothiness of the artificial intelligence boom is starting to look like 1999…or 2021. Startups are again receiving unsolicited investment interest months or even weeks after announcing a fundraising, sometimes at prices that would more than double their valuation. The latest is Mercor, a ...

Sources: OpenAI is set to produce an AI chip co-designed with Broadcom next year, and has committed $10B in orders; the chip will be for internal use only (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/e8cc6d99-d06e-4e9b-a54f-29317fa68d6f

Honeywell's Quantinuum raised $600M from Quanta, Nvidia's NVentures, and others at a $10B pre-money valuation, up from $5B after raising $300M in January 2024 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-04/nvid…

Source: Sierra, which builds AI customer service agents, nears a $350M raise at a $10B valuation, up from $4.5B in October 2024, and is set to top $100M in ARR (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/03/sierra-ai-agents-funding-350-million

Scoop: Agent startup Sierra closes in on $350 million deal
The company's specialty, AI agents for customer support, is in growing demand.

Sources: Mistral is in discussions, including with Abu Dhabi's MGX, to raise $1B at a valuation of about $10B, up from its previous valuation of €5.8B (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/c824d775-d5e9-479d-8872-bb7c2cc702dc

The US Army awards Palantir a contract worth up to $10B over the next decade, creating a "comprehensive framework for the Army's future software and data needs" (Elizabeth Dwoskin/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/…

Palantir gets $10 billion contract from U.S. Army
The software company’s enterprise contract over the next decade cements its central role in warfighting for years to come. 

Sources: Shein's net income rose to over $400M, revenue rose to ~$10B in Q1, driving profit margins to ~5%, driven by consumer purchases ahead of US tariffs (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-31/s…

Sources: OpenAI's restructuring may slip into 2026 as it negotiates with Microsoft; failure to reach a deal in 2025 would let SoftBank withhold $10B commitment (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/b81d5fb6-26e9-417a-a0cc-6b6689b70c98

Trump says Meta plans to spend $50B on its "Hyperion" data center under construction in Louisiana; earlier, Meta said that its investment would exceed $10B (Riley Griffin/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Sources: Cognition, which makes the coding assistant Devin, is in talks to raise $300M at a $10B valuation; it was reportedly valued at $4B in March (Richard Nieva/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardnieva/

AI Coding Startup Cognition In Talks To Raise At $10 Billion Valuation
The deal, backed by Founders Fund and Khosla Ventures, comes as the startup announced it is buying up the remains of rival Windsurf.

Sources: after raising $10B, xAI is now working with a trusted financier to secure up to $12B to buy Nvidia chips, led by Elon Musk-linked Valor Equity Partners (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/elon-musk-x-ai-funding-feecede1

Sources: Anthropic is in talks to raise $10B, significantly above the previously reported $5B, due to strong investor demand (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-21/anthropic-in-talks-to-raise-up-to-10-bill…

Sources: Crusoe is discussing raising $1B at a $10B valuation; the company, which is helping build OpenAI's first Stargate facility, had $250M revenue in 2024 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/crusoe-talks-raise-money-10-bill…

OpenAI’s Data Center Provider in Talks to Raise Money at $10 Billion Valuation
Crusoe, the developer behind OpenAI’s first Stargate data center, is discussing raising funds at a $10 billion valuation—more than three times its valuation less than a year ago, according to two people with direct knowledge of the fundraising talks. The seven-year-old company wants to raise at ...

Source: Meta has signed a deal with Google, worth more than $10B over six years, to use Google Cloud's servers, storage, networking, and other services (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-signs-10-billion-plus-cloud-deal-goo…

Meta Signs $10 Billion-Plus Cloud Deal With Google
Google has struck a major cloud computing deal with Meta Platforms, according to two people familiar with the matter. As part of the agreement, the social media giant will use Google Cloud’s servers, storage, networking and other services, one of the people said. The deal—worth more than $10 ...

Source: OpenAI's $40B round announced in March is reopening on July 28; SoftBank's commitment could be cut to $10B if OpenAI does not restructure by end of 2025 (Lauren Goode/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-fundraising-round-softbank-sam-altman/

OpenAI Seeks Additional Capital From Investors as Part of Its $40 Billion Round
OpenAI, which recently announced a $40 billion round of financing, is seeking funding from new and existing investors to fulfill the deal.