Your Daily Gist — February 13, 2026

Welcome to Daily Gist. AI is eating everything from $380 billion valuations to McDonald's diet plans, while tech workers get laid off and China quietly goes green. That's quite a spread. But let's start with the biggest number in the room - Anthropic just closed a $30 billion funding round. That's not just big money, that's "we could buy entire countries" money. It's the second-largest private tech fundraising round ever, putting them at a $380 bill