Anthropic is adding more rocket fuel to its engine as the high-flying San Francisco startup behind the Claude chatbot and AI platform raised another $3.5 billion at a whopping $61.5 billion valuation.

TOPSHOT - OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks during the Microsoft Build conference at the Seattle Convention Center Summit Building in Seattle, Washington on May 21, 2024.

Bridgetown Research, a Seattle-based startup that uses AI to help investment firms and corporate teams supercharge their research efforts, raised $19 million in a Series A round led by Lightspeed and Accel.

Amazon is reportedly developing a new artificial intelligence (AI) model with advanced reasoning capabilities. According to a report by