Companies

Disruptive • Unknown

Dallas-based investment firm Disruptive raised $10 billion to invest in AI, defense, and software, doubling its assets under management. The firm is pivoting from single-deal SPVs to a discretionary fund structure and plans to back 10 later-stage companies with $1 billion each.

Avante • Series A

Avante, which builds an AI platform to help companies manage employee healthcare and other benefits, raised a $30 million Series A, following a $10 million seed round in 2024.

Anthropic launched tools that show companies how their spending on its models is being used, lifting the curtain on usage ahead of a planned IPO. The move gives enterprise customers visibility into what their AI budgets are buying.

Business • TechCrunch AI

OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic say they will adopt a new shared 'policy token' standard that lets publishers opt out of AI scraping across multiple companies at once, rather than setting preferences individually. The move gives publishers a single signal for AI training preferences.

Policy & Regulation • The Verge AI

META

Meta is among the big tech companies whose AI spending commitments have raised investor skepticism, with the five largest data center players committing over $3 trillion in spending. The company also faces a UK CMA probe into whether it imposed exploitative terms on publishers and advertisers for AI development.