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The July 31 analysis found concentrations in proptech (15 companies), cancer therapeutics (three California startups each at $10M), space and satellite tech (9), and robotics (18). Real-estate and construction venture totaled just over $10B last year, below prior peaks. At the seed band where a solo founder can raise, capital is rotating toward atoms and biology precisely because AI made the software layer cheap enough not to need $8M.
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Crunchbase counts 440 deals closing in the first half and fewer than 100 since, with OpenAI at 8 acquisitions this year and at least 19 lifetime, and Anthropic at 5 or more including Coefficient Bio at $400 million. Databricks, Cyera, Harvey and Legora appear as repeat acquire...
IGV is down 24% in Q1. That's the worst quarter for software since 2008. But here's the number that stopped me cold: for the first time in modern history, software valuations have fallen below the S&P 500 multiple. SaaStr put the market cap destruction at roughly $2 trillion s...
Signatories on August 27 include OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, CrowdStrike, Okta, Fortinet, Capital One, Mastercard, Visa, Adobe, Oracle and IBM, saying there's "a limited window" to build unified defenses and naming hospitals, water treatment plants and internet infra...
The Register put the two side by side on August 8. Read together, frontier safety policy isn't converging on a posture, it's splitting by risk domain, with each lab tightening where its own evals scared it and loosening where false positives cost product usability. That's evid...
Sumeet Vaidya (CEO of Crafting, previously Meta, Uber, Discord) argues the binding constraint on enterprise AI is resilience rather than speed, citing policy and access changes at Anthropic and OpenAI as instability teams underweight. His recommendations: design so you can swa...
They supplied advanced AI to Singapore-based subsidiaries of Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent, whose parents sit on the Pentagon's 1260H list, legally, because US controls key on geography rather than ownership (FT via Yahoo). OpenAI suspended Alibaba-affiliated API access last mon...
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