Top 3 Tech News
1) Anthropic raises $13B Series F at $183B post-money valuation
- Anthropic raised $13B Series F at a $183B valuation, led by ICONIQ with backing from Fidelity, Lightspeed, BlackRock, GIC, Goldman Sachs, Jane Street, and others.
- Revenue exploded from $1B (Jan 2025) to $5B (Aug 2025), making it one of the fastest-growing tech companies ever.
- Now serving 300,000+ business customers, with large accounts up nearly 7x in a year.
- Claude Code, launched May 2025, already hit $500M run-rate revenue with usage growing 10x in three months.
https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-raises-series-f-at-usd183b-post-money-valuation
2) China Nvidia rival Cambricon adds to $40 billion rally with 4,000% revenue jump
- Chinese semiconductor firm Cambricon posted a more than 4,000% surge in revenue and swung to profit in the first half of the year.
- The numbers underscore how local challengers to Nvidia are gaining traction as Beijing looks to push its domestic industry.
- While Nvidia is back in China, reports suggest Beijing has discouraged local firms from buying the U.S. giant’s chips.
3) Google is launching its own Layer 1 (L1) blockchain, the Google Cloud Universal Ledger (GCUL)
Rich Widmann, Google’s Head of Web3 Strategy, recently highlighted GCUL’s unique position on Linkedin, comparing it to similar L1 projects from companies like Stripe and Circle.
Designed specifically for the financial sector, GCUL is a payments-focused network that aims to operate 24/7. With over three billion monthly active Google Cloud users, the potential scale of this blockchain is massive—especially when you consider that Ethereum has only about 17.55 million monthly active addresses.
While a Google-driven push into crypto might seem intimidating at first, it’s more likely to benefit the broader cryptocurrency space than harm it. If GCUL gains traction, it could drive significant mainstream adoption and lay a foundation that ultimately helps other cryptocurrencies grow.
Source: Linkedin
💡 Headhunter’s Lens
Job market trends are hard to predict in today’s chaotic world, but there’s a systematic way to approach them. If you’re exploring opportunities in a fast-growing field like AI, one strategy is to target companies across its supply chain ecosystem (We’ll share more on this in another post).
Instead of competing with top talent to land a role at an LLM developer like OpenAI or Alibaba, consider the broader network: hyperscalers, infrastructure providers, IT services companies, data centers, and even the utility providers powering it all.
As the saying goes, a rising tide lifts all boats.
🚀 Executive Move to Watch
- Yvonne Ng has been promoted to VP at Elliptic.
- Shunyet Jan moved from Tower Research to Bybit, and is now joining OKX as VP of Product Management.
📬 One to Forward
🎧 Dr. Roman Yampolskiy: These Are The Only 5 Jobs That Will Remain In 2030!