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In a July 31 SEC filing, Amazon confirmed it invested the remaining $21.3B of its $50B OpenAI commitment (after $15B in Q1 and $13.7B in Q2), completing the round announced Feb 27. As part of the deal, AWS becomes the exclusive third-party cloud provider for OpenAI's Frontier program, with prior infrastructure agreements that could total $100B over eight years.

Axios reported that Colossal was in discussions for a new funding round valuing the de-extinction company at $20bn to $30bn, against the $10.2bn it achieved in its $200m Series C and the $10.3bn carried after a $120m dodo-specific raise in September 2025. Total capital raised to date is roughly $555m; no round has been confirmed as closed.

Lunar Outpost closed a $30 million Series B funding round led by Industrious Ventures and unveiled new rover designs to meet rising demand for lunar mobility missions.