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Welcome to the TechBrewrite Home for Friday the 13th of February.

2026. I'm Brian McCullough today.

Anthropic raises the second largest financing round of all time.

Other AI players are beginning to show hockey stick revenue growth.

Meta wants to add facial recognition to its glasses.

Ring pulls back from some recognition partnerships for its cameras.

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Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

Anthropic has raised a $30 billion series G round led by GIC and Co2 and co-led by D.E. Shaw,

Dragonnear, Founders Fund, Iconic, and

MGX at a $380 billion post-money valuation. Quoting CNBC, opening eye has the largest

private tech fundraising round on record. Rival Anthropic now has the second largest.

Anthropic announced on Thursday the close of a $30 billion funding round

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