private equity

Anthropic partnered with Goldman Sachs, Blackstone and others on a $1.5 billion AI venture targeting private equity-owned firms. This massive investment aims to deepen Anthropic's enterprise AI market position against intensifying competition from OpenAI.

The Department of Labor has proposed a rule allowing 401(k) plans to more easily include alternative assets such as private equity, cryptocurrencies and real estate. This regulatory change could significantly increase institutional capital flows into these alternative asset classes, creating new investment opportunities and potentially affecting asset pricing.

Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm Stonepeak and merged with cable company Astround, with Alphabet selling its majority stake. This divestiture reflects Google's strategic shift away from direct fiber infrastructure operations.