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Deven Parekh of the $90B-AUM Insight Partners told TechCrunch that roughly 50% of H1 venture dollars went into frontier AI and that concentrated funds hold 35-40% of a fund in a single frontier company. His counter is going earlier rather than paying up: "You're paying more without reducing risk." For anyone raising at the application layer, that's the clearest public number on how much capital isn't available to you.
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Apple filed a 41-page complaint July 10 in the Northern District of California against OpenAI, its hardware subsidiary io Products, Chief Hardware Officer (ex-Apple VP) Tang Tan, and former engineer Chang Liu, alleging systematic theft of on-device AI and silicon trade secrets...
Guillermo Rauch told TechCrunch that the industry is decoupling models from agents, with customers moving to plug-and-play stacks spanning OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, DeepSeek, and GLM 5.2 rather than betting on one lab. Over 1 trillion tokens daily through Vercel's AI gateway....
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...
$800 million in API tokens for ~2% equity across 400 startups. Read that number again. TechCrunch reports Sam Altman made the offer at a closed-door YC event on May 20. Every startup in YC's Spring 2026 batch gets $2 million in OpenAI API tokens via uncapped SAFEs. The total c...
Co-led by Atreides Management and Valor Equity Partners with Mubadala Capital participating, against the $10B valuation from its $1.38B round last October, and following a $13B five-year GPU cloud contract with Jane Street. Meta, Microsoft and OpenAI are all customers. TechCrunch
The Trump administration filed a brief September 1 in Manhattan federal court supporting OpenAI against the New York Times and other newspapers, arguing that "training of LLMs on written works is exceedingly transformative" and that the United States has a strong interest in t...
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