[AINews] OpenAI closes $110B raise from Amazon, NVIDIA, SoftBank in largest startup fundraise in history @ $840B post-money
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AI News for 2/26/2026-2/27/2026. We checked 12 subreddits, 544 Twitters and 24 Discords (263 channels, and 12529 messages) for you. Estimated reading time saved (at 200wpm): 1189 minutes. AINews’ website lets you search all past issues. As a reminder, AINews is now a section of Latent Space. You can opt in/out of email frequencies! Against the backdrop of nonstop positioning with the Department of War (Anthropic refusing terms vs OpenAI doing a deal), OpenAI finally closed the much debated Big Round that had been started since December. In the post, they make several interesting new…
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