AI industry marks financial maturity as chip rivalry deepens

Anthropic projects its first quarterly profit and OpenAI eyes an IPO, as DeepSeek's price cuts and Huawei's new chip law deepen East-West rivalry.

• Anthropic closes $30 billion round and projects first quarterly profit
• OpenAI prepares confidential IPO filing targeting $1 trillion valuation
• DeepSeek makes 75% price cut permanent, escalating the global pricing war
• Huawei proposes a 'Tau Scaling Law' to replace Moore's Law
• US states advance AI legislation as Congress hesitates
• UK regulators issue joint AI warning; Britain and Australia deepen safety ties
• Micron Technology joins the trillion-dollar club on record AI memory demand