AI Daily Newsletter: Microsoft Invests 2.5 Billion USD in AI Deployment and OpenAI Wants to Donate Shares

🔥 1. Microsoft Launches Frontier Company — $2.5 Billion, 6,000 Engineers to Deploy AI

Microsoft has officially established Microsoft Frontier Company, a new business unit with a $2.5 billion commitment and 6,000 technical experts, focusing on deploying AI for businesses. Unlike AWS’s ($1B) Forward-Deployed Engineer model, Microsoft calls this the largest “outcome-driven engineering” organization in the industry. Initial partners include the London Stock Exchange Group, Unilever, and Land O’Lakes.

Source: TechCrunch

🤖 2. Anthropic in Talks with Samsung for Custom AI Chips

Just a week after OpenAI announced its “Jalapeño” chip in collaboration with Broadcom, Anthropic has begun discussions with Samsung to develop its own custom AI chip. Although the plan is still in its early stages, this move indicates that the self-designed chip race is heating up — AI companies want to reduce their dependence on Nvidia and optimize hardware for themselves. Samsung is already a chip manufacturing partner for Nvidia and is in similar discussions with Google.

Source: TechCrunch

⚡ 3. OpenAI Proposes Donating 5% of Its Stock to the US Sovereign Wealth Fund

Sam Altman has proposed contributing 5% of OpenAI’s equity to the US Sovereign Wealth Fund — a political move to “maintain a good relationship with the administration” and reduce pressure from stricter proposals like Senator Bernie Sanders’ 50% tax. Trump confirmed that discussions about the idea have taken place. The plan requires Congressional approval and is still in its preliminary stages.

Source: TechCrunch

🛡️ 4. Cloudflare Cracks Down on AI Crawlers: Forces Separation of Search from Training by September 15

Cloudflare has issued an ultimatum to AI companies: by September 15, 2026, they must separate their search crawlers from AI training/agent crawlers, or they will be blocked by default on ad-supported pages. CEO Matthew Prince stated: “Most internet traffic is now non-human, and we must act faster.” Cloudflare also criticized Google for having a “double advantage” in both search traffic and using it for AI training.

Source: TechCrunch

📊 5. Venice AI Becomes a Unicorn with $65M Series A — Privacy-First Approach Takes Off

Erik Voorhees’ AI platform, which focuses on privacy, has raised $65M in Series A funding (its first round), valuing the company at $1 billion — becoming the latest unicorn. Venice AI has already generated $70M in annual revenue, has 3M+ users, and handles 1.7M API calls per day. Its strengths include end-to-end encryption, not storing user data, and supporting 200+ AI models, including uncensored models. Investors include Dragonfly and Coinbase Ventures.

Source: TechCrunch