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It was a week of divergence. Oil surged past $100, AI spending fears rattled Big Tech, crypto held surprisingly firm, and defense tech became the hottest trade in venture.

Anthropic, the AI lab behind Claude, has filed confidentially for an initial public offering, the company said in a blog post Monday.

Nvidia has laid a new brick in its AI empire. NVentures, its corporate VC fund, has backed Legora, reportedly its first legal AI investment.

Anthropic has purchased the stealth biotech AI startup Coefficient Bio in a $400 million stock deal, according to The Information and Eric Newcomer. Sources close to the deal confirmed

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted on X Friday night that the company had struck a deal with the Department of Defense to deploy its models on the department’s classified networks.

Accel is leading Sapiom’s $15 million seed round, with participation from Okta Ventures, Gradient Ventures, Array Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Anthropic, and Coinbase Ventures.