Amazon announced an additional investment of up to $25 billion in Anthropic — $5B now, up to $20B more tied to milestones — on top of its prior $8B, bringing the total to $33 billion. In return, Anthropic commits to spending over $100 billion on AWS over the next decade and secures up to 5 gigawatts of chip capacity for training and inference. The deal values Anthropic at $380 billion and sent Amazon shares up 2.7% in after-hours trading.
Jeff Bezos' physical AI lab Project Prometheus is closing a $10 billion funding round backed by BlackRock and JPMorgan, valuing the startup at $38 billion. The lab, launched in November 2025 with $6.2B in seed funding, is building AI that understands the physical world — targeting manufacturing, aerospace, robotics, and drug discovery rather than text. The venture has grown to 120+ employees recruited from OpenAI, xAI, Meta, and DeepMind, and marks Bezos' first operational role since leaving Amazon in 2021.
Google co-founder Sergey Brin is running a DeepMind strike team focused on closing Gemini's coding gap with Claude, led by research engineer Sebastian Borgeaud. Internal researchers reportedly rate Claude's code-writing above Gemini's, and in an internal memo Brin told staff the real prize is AI that trains the next AI — with coding as the key capability. The effort is less about product and more about automating Google itself.
Chinese AI lab Moonshot AI dropped Kimi K2.6, an open-weight 1-trillion-parameter model (32B active) that can orchestrate up to 300 sub-agents across 4,000 coordinated steps. The model scores 58.6 on SWE-Bench Pro, edging out GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.6, and signals a shift from single-model prompting to autonomous multi-agent systems. It's already available on Cloudflare Workers AI.
Hannover Messe 2026 opened April 20 with NVIDIA and partners — Siemens, BMW, ABB, Microsoft — showcasing AI-powered humanoid robots completing real production tasks on German factory lines. The demos span digital twins built on Omniverse and OpenUSD, vision AI agents, and Europe's largest AI factory built by Deutsche Telekom on NVIDIA infrastructure.
Job postings reveal Anthropic is assembling its first infrastructure operations team in Europe and Australia, marking the company's initial move to build data center capacity outside the United States. The expansion aligns with Anthropic's rapidly growing compute needs and its freshly secured $100B AWS commitment.
