Week in Review

August 31, 2026September 6, 2026

238
Stories
$38.1B
Tracked Funding
5
Categories
OpenAI
Most Covered (42)

Top Stories

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AISep 6

AI's AGI Claim Meets an Accountability Reckoning

The same week OpenAI called its newest model the start of artificial general intelligence, authors, regulators and Nvidia all moved on the question of who answers for what these systems actually do.

2
BIG TECHSep 6

Phil Schiller Left the App Store Over Its Next Act

Bloomberg reports Apple's longtime App Store chief stepped aside partly because he did not want to run the margin-expansion and recurring-revenue push that new CEO John Ternus and services chief Eddy Cue are planning.

3
IPO$1.5B settlementSep 6

Anthropic's $1.5B Payout Is Now a Rights Fight

Authors say publishers and literary agents are claiming shares of Anthropic's $1.5 billion copyright settlement they may not be owed, turning a closed liability into an open administrative dispute.

4
FUNDING$1.36B across 12 dealsSep 6

Fintech's $1.36B Week, Led by FNZ's $450M

WealthTech giant FNZ took the largest of twelve fintech rounds this week at $450 million, in a period where US companies made up seven of the twelve deals and wealth-management platforms dominated the category mix.

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REGULATION$1.5B settlement, 482K booksSep 6

Anthropic's Book Settlement Turns Into a Turf War

Publishers and literary agents are staking claims to shares of the roughly $3,000-per-book payout in Anthropic's $1.5 billion copyright settlement, and authors are finding out only after notices go out.

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REGULATIONSep 6

Wyden: US Troops Are Still Trackable by Bought Data

A bipartisan group led by Senator Ron Wyden and Rep. Pat Harrigan asked the Pentagon's inspector general to explain why commercially purchased location data still reveals US military movements a decade after the problem was identified.

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FUNDING$1.7B Series ASep 6

Kalanick's Atoms Is Building Robotaxi Tech

Travis Kalanick's robotics company, which raised $1.7 billion in a Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz with $100 million from Uber, is hiring and acquiring toward becoming an autonomous-vehicle player.

Biggest Deal of the Week
Up to $2T valuation
Three Outsiders Will Control Anthropic's Board After IPO

Coverage by Category

FUNDING
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AI
66
28%
IPO
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22%
BIG TECH
31
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All 238 Stories

DateCategoryHeadlineAmountSource
Sep 6AIAI's AGI Claim Meets an Accountability ReckoningValue Add Pulse Analysis
Sep 6BIG TECHPhil Schiller Left the App Store Over Its Next ActTechCrunch
Sep 6IPOAnthropic's $1.5B Payout Is Now a Rights Fight$1.5B settlementTechCrunch
Sep 6FUNDINGFintech's $1.36B Week, Led by FNZ's $450M$1.36B across 12 dealsfintech.global
Sep 6REGULATIONAnthropic's Book Settlement Turns Into a Turf War$1.5B settlement, 482K booksTechCrunch
Sep 6REGULATIONWyden: US Troops Are Still Trackable by Bought DataThe Register
Sep 6FUNDINGKalanick's Atoms Is Building Robotaxi Tech$1.7B Series ATechCrunch
Sep 6BIG TECHTesla Put 45 Cybercabs in Austin. Then NHTSA CalledTechCrunch
Sep 6AICalifornia's 30 AI Bills Await Newsom's PenAkin Gump
Sep 6AIOpenAI, Google and Anthropic All Built 'Critical' AIValue Add Pulse Analysis
Sep 6FUNDINGWhy AI Compute Swallowed the Week's Venture Dollars$4.8B in five daysValue Add Pulse Analysis
Sep 6IPOWhat Nvidia's Anchor Checks Hide in AI IPO Filings$1.5B + ~$2B anchor checksValue Add Pulse Analysis
Sep 6FUNDINGSpace Startups Raise a Record $20.3B in 2026$20.3B in 2026Tech Times
Sep 6FUNDINGInsurTech Funding Is Really Just Three Companies$1.67B disclosed, 1 yearNew Market Pitch
Sep 6AIOpenAI, Anthropic Model Fatigue Is a Distribution Problem, Not HypeCNBC
Sep 6AIAI Food Photos Hit the Limits of Ad LawFortune
Sep 6FUNDINGAI Labs Have Now Committed $275B to Cloud Compute$275B CommittedValue Add Pulse Analysis
Sep 6IPOThe 2026 IPO Market Is Barely Beating 2025's PaceValue Add Pulse Analysis
Sep 6AIAI Labs Just Crossed the Cyber-Weapon ThresholdInfoWorld
Sep 6BIG TECHIsar Aerospace Reaches Orbit on Its Second FlightArs Technica
Sep 6FUNDINGDefense Tech Funding Hits a Record $35.6B in 2026$35.6B YTDCrunchbase News
Sep 5REGULATIONSeattle Times and Newsday Sue OpenAI and MicrosoftTechCrunch
Sep 5AIGPT-6 Astra Goes Public. Its 'Critical' Label Doesn't.CNBC
Sep 5IPOOura Heads Public With Rivals Circling the Finger$1.21B nine-month revenueTechCrunch
Sep 5AIGemini Trip Plan Ends in a Mount Shasta RescueTechCrunch
Sep 5AIOpenAI Admits Wiki Takeover, Promises Disclosure RulesTechCrunch
Sep 5IPOT3 Defense Files to List More Shares on NasdaqSEC EDGAR
Sep 5AIGPT-6 Astra Hits 100% on OpenAI's Own Exploit TestThe Hacker News
Sep 5FUNDINGScan.com Raises $220M to Build a US Imaging Network$220M ($90M equity + $130M debt)Fierce Healthcare
Sep 5FUNDINGJane Street Leads $1.5B Into Fluidstack at $18B$1.5B at $18B valuationCrunchbase News
Sep 5IPOAnthropic's IPO Timeline Slides to Mid-OctoberCNBC
Sep 5IPOAnthropic's IPO Marketing Slips to Mid-OctoberCNBC
Sep 5FUNDINGNscale Lines Up $3.5B Pre-IPO War Chest From Nvidia$3.5B Pre-IPO FinancingYahoo Finance
Sep 4FUNDINGXDOF Nears $1.2B Valuation Three Months Out of StealthSeries B at ~$1.2BTechCrunch
Sep 4REGULATIONTesla's Wheel-Free Cybercab Draws Instant Federal ProbeTechCrunch
Sep 4IPOTwelve S-1 Filings in Two Days, Three of Them Blank ChecksSEC EDGAR
Sep 4IPOSB Energy Amends S-1 for a $439B Backlog Listing$5B-$7B targeted raiseSEC EDGAR
Sep 4IPOADARx Files for Nasdaq Listing With Three Drugs in ClinicSEC EDGAR
Sep 4AIOpenAI Agents Hijacked a Wiki Months Before Anyone NoticedCNBC
Sep 4FUNDINGGimlet Labs Hits $3B Valuation on Chip-Agnostic AI Bet$300M Series BGlobeNewswire
Sep 4AIAMD's $100K Desk Machine Runs Trillion-Parameter Models$100K-$150K per systemThe Register
Sep 4AITenable and OpenAI Build an AI Agent InspectorTenable
Sep 4AICrowdStrike Puts GPT-5.6 Cyber Inside FalconCrowdStrike
Sep 4FUNDINGTabaPay Raises $155M and Buys a Bank$155M growth roundFinTech Futures
Sep 4FUNDINGThyme Care Doubles to $2B on Cancer Navigation$125M Series ECNBC
Sep 4FUNDINGHiddenLayer Raises $100M as AI Security Consolidates$100M Series BTechCrunch
Sep 4FUNDINGSalesforce Leads $166M Into HiBob at $3.2B$166M growth roundSiliconANGLE
Sep 4AIAnthropic Ships a Blueprint for Claude Shopping AgentsThe Register
Sep 4IPOThree Outsiders Will Control Anthropic's Board After IPOUp to $2T valuationArs Technica
Sep 4AIClaude Just Formalized Fermat's Last Theorem in 11 Days11-day autonomous proofAnthropic
Sep 4FUNDINGKrafton Commits Another $250M to India Beyond Games$250M over 3-4 yearsTechCrunch
Sep 4REGULATIONTrezor Breach Grows by 67,000 More US CustomersThe Block
Sep 4IPO2026's IPO Count Hits 238 -- Busiest Since 2021StockAnalysis
Sep 4REGULATIONNHTSA Investigates Tesla's Cybercab Hours After LaunchTechCrunch
Sep 4AIClaude Mythos Aces Booz Allen's Cyber Weapon IndexThe Register
Sep 4AIAltman Apologizes as GPT-6 Astra Rollout Turns MessyFortune
Sep 4IPOThis Week's IPO Pipeline Spans Four SectorsValue Add Pulse Analysis
Sep 4AILabor's Share of Income Just Hit a Record LowFortune
Sep 4IPOWhy AI Infrastructure Is Eating the IPO MarketTechCrunch
Sep 4BIG TECHTesla Opens Cybercab Rides to the Public in AustinMotor1
Sep 4BIG TECHJohn Ternus Takes Over as Apple CEOFortune
Sep 4AIMicrosoft's MAI-Transcribe-2 Undercuts Rivals on PriceMicrosoft AI
Sep 4AIDeepMind's WeatherNext 3 Cuts Forecast Lag to ZeroGoogle
Sep 4AIOpenAI's Own Scientists Say Astra Is UnknowableAxios
Sep 4FUNDINGEx-Replit GC Raises $60M to Build Legal AI$60M Series BCrunchbase News
Sep 4IPOOne of Eight IPO Candidates Just Actually FiledCrunchbase News
Sep 4IPOWhy AI Infrastructure Beat AI Labs to the Public MarketsValue Add Pulse Analysis
Sep 4AIOpenAI Pledges $1B in AI Credits to Cyber Defenders$1B in AI creditsThe Register
Sep 4IPO2026's IPO Pops Are Fading Into Real Trading RangesYahoo Finance
Sep 4FUNDINGElucid Raises $55M for AI Heart-Disease Imaging$55M Series DBioSpace
Sep 3IPOTen More Companies Filed to Go PublicSEC EDGAR
Sep 3AIAnthropic Ties Claude Distillation to the Dark WebCNBC
Sep 3REGULATIONPentagon Won't Drop Its Anthropic BlacklistAxios
Sep 3AIOpenAI, Anthropic and SpaceXAI All Went Down ThursdayBloomberg
Sep 3IPOAnthropic Locks In $15B Credit Line Ahead of IPO$15B Credit FacilityPYMNTS
Sep 3FUNDINGThinking Machines Nears $1B Round at $40B$1B round in talksTechCrunch
Sep 3AINvidia Buys Hugging Face, the Platform OpenAI Hacked$12.9BTechCrunch
Sep 3REGULATIONCongress Unveils Bill to Force AI Agent InventoriesAxios
Sep 3AIChatGPT, Claude and Grok All Went Down at OnceAxios
Sep 3AIOpenAI Launches GPT-6 Astra, Calls It the AGI EraCNBC
Sep 3FUNDINGCrusoe Triples to $30B Valuation on $3B Series F$3B+ Series FBloomberg
Sep 3IPOCerebras, Four Months Public: The Scorecard So FarTechCrunch
Sep 3FUNDINGWiz Founder Backs Guardio at $1.1B Valuation$40M at $1.1B valuationSiliconANGLE
Sep 3IPOCrusoe Meets IPO Bankers Less Than a Year After $10BTechCrunch
Sep 3FUNDINGTabaPay Raises $155M to Buy Its Way Into Banking$155M Growth RoundFintech Futures
Sep 3FUNDINGCrusoe Reportedly Raises $3B at $30B Valuation$3B roundTechCrunch
Sep 3AIGoogle Brings Gemini Voice Chat to Gmail, Docs, KeepTechCrunch
Sep 3IPOOura Files to Go Public at $16B-Plus$16B+ IPO valuationBloomberg
Sep 3REGULATIONGoogle Avoids Ad-Tech Breakup, Judge Orders Fixes InsteadBloomberg Law
Sep 3FUNDINGSuperluminal Raises $60M for AI-Designed Obesity Pill$60M Series BBioPharma Dive
Sep 3FUNDINGQualcomm Backs Ultrahuman's $70M Smart Ring Bet$70M roundTechCrunch
Sep 3IPOOura Files Public S-1, Revenue Up 74% to $1.2BTargeting $3B raiseBloomberg
Sep 3IPOOura Files for IPO, Targets Above $16B Valuation$3B target raiseBloomberg
Sep 3BIG TECHNvidia Confirms $12.9B Deal to Buy Hugging Face$12.9B acquisitionTechCrunch
Sep 3BIG TECHAdobe Names Anil Chakravarthy CEO, Ending Narayen EraBloomberg
Sep 3BIG TECHNvidia Confirms $12.93B Deal for Hugging Face$12.93B acquisitionCNBC
Sep 3AIGPT-6 Astra Is OpenAI's First 'Critical' Cyber ModelOpenAI
Sep 3AIGoogle Ships Four Flash Models, Still No FlagshipFortune
Sep 3FUNDINGWonderful Doubles Valuation to $5B in Six Months$550M Series CTechCrunch
Sep 3FUNDINGUpwind Triples Valuation to $3.8B Riding Wiz's Exit$300M Series CBloomberg
Sep 3FUNDINGProfound Raises $96M to Own AI Search Answers$96M Series CNewcomer
Sep 3FUNDINGThe Startups Building AI Agents That Shop for YouNewcomer
Sep 3IPOT3 Defense Registers Shares After Its Drone PivotSEC EDGAR
Sep 3FUNDINGStartup ARR Is Less Secure Than EverTechCrunch
Sep 3IPOAnthropic and OpenAI's IPO Race Stays ConfidentialCNBC
Sep 3BIG TECHCharter's CFO Jumps to a Blackstone-Google AI VentureFortune
Sep 3IPOWhat SpaceX's $1.77T IPO War Chest Is BuyingCNBC
Sep 3IPOMoonshot AI Confidentially Files for $3B HK IPO$3B target raiseTechNode
Sep 3AIEnterprises Favor Non-Nvidia Chips Over Next-Gen GPUsVentureBeat
Sep 3BIG TECHAdobe Buys India's Rilo to Bolt On Agentic MarketingBusiness Standard
Sep 3FUNDINGHubX Raises $75M, Becomes Turkey's 8th Unicorn$75M Series AInvesting.com
Sep 3AISaudi Arabia's HUMAIN Builds Arabic AI on Chinese WeightsBloomberg
Sep 3BIG TECHSnowflake Jumps 22% as AI Coding Tools Juice GrowthCNBC
Sep 3FUNDINGAugust VC Funding Jumped 122% From a Year Ago$42B in AugustCrunchbase News
Sep 3BIG TECHMicrosoft Will Finally Disclose Azure's Actual RevenueCNBC
Sep 3IPOIt Takes $25M to Get Into Anthropic's Cap TableFortune
Sep 2BIG TECHAI Capex Earnings Season Delivers a Split VerdictCNBC
Sep 2IPOShein's Hong Kong Debut Keeps Sliding$1.74B IPO, -13.5% sinceReuters
Sep 2REGULATIONLutnick Says Anthropic Is 'Back on the Right Side'Axios
Sep 2BIG TECHBroadcom Beats on Earnings, Drops 5% on Weak GuidanceCNBC
Sep 2BIG TECHMicrosoft Will Finally Break Out Azure's Real RevenueCNBC
Sep 2AIGoogle Ships Gemini 3.8 Flash and a Cyber TwinVentureBeat
Sep 2BIG TECHPalo Alto Networks Pays $500M for Console$500M acquisitionTechCrunch
Sep 2BIG TECHDell's AI Order Backlog Hits a Record $95B$60.9B AI order backlogSiliconANGLE
Sep 2AIOpenAI's Astra Becomes First Model Rated 'Critical' Cyber RiskAxios
Sep 2REGULATIONGoogle Spared Ad-Tech Breakup, Judge Orders OverhaulAxios
Sep 2BIG TECHDelivery Hero Board Backs Uber's $15B Bid$15B takeover bidTechCrunch
Sep 2IPOOlympus-Backed Accelevation Files for an $800M IPO$800M target raiseInvesting.com
Sep 2BIG TECHUber Cuts 3,300 Jobs to Fund Its Robotaxi BetTechCrunch
Sep 2REGULATIONGoogle Dodges Ad Exchange Breakup, Must Open UpWTOP / AP
Sep 2FUNDINGEx-Apple Engineers' Lyte Raises $165M at $1.6B$165M Series CCrunchbase News
Sep 2AIGoogle Gates Its Best Cyber-AI to Vetted Defenders9to5Google
Sep 2FUNDINGiPronics Raises $125M for AI Data-Center Optics$125M Series BThe Register
Sep 2AIOpenAI's New Reasoning Trick Alarms Safety ResearchersTechCrunch
Sep 2AIPerplexity Open-Sources Its On-Device AI EngineUnite.AI
Sep 2FUNDINGLasso Security Raises $30M for CPU-Only AI Guardrails$30M roundSiliconANGLE
Sep 2FUNDINGPalantir's Karp Backs Fedorov's New Defense StartupCNBC
Sep 2REGULATIONTexas Freezes New Data-Center Grid HookupsUS News
Sep 2AIOne Git Flaw Can Hijack Claude Code, Cursor, GrokThe Hacker News
Sep 2FUNDINGMedici Brands Raises $250M as David Protein Scales$250M Series BPulse2
Sep 2AIHackers Are Actively Exploiting a Critical Langflow FlawThe Hacker News
Sep 2FUNDINGMiami's Felix Raises $200M for WhatsApp Banking$200M Series CCrunchbase News
Sep 2BIG TECHa16z Says Enshittification Isn't Real. The Data Disagrees.404 Media
Sep 2REGULATIONDOJ Tells Court AI Training Is Fair UseTechCrunch
Sep 2AIAI Agent Security Is Becoming Its Own CategoryValue Add Pulse Analysis
Sep 2FUNDINGThe 10x Markup in Five Months Is the Real Story10x in 5 monthsValue Add Pulse Analysis
Sep 2FUNDINGAugust's Megarounds Went to Missiles and Inference$2.63B in a weekValue Add Pulse Analysis
Sep 2REGULATIONSony, Warner Chappell Sue Anthropic Over Song LyricsVariety
Sep 2BIG TECHBroadcom: Arm Servers Are Three to Five Years From MatteringThe Register
Sep 2REGULATIONTrump Calls Data Center Opponents 'Backwards and Poor'Fortune
Sep 2BIG TECHGas Pipelines Are the New AI Trade: $10B of Deals in a Week$4.42B acquisitionFortune
Sep 2IPOOpenAI and Anthropic Race to List Without Breaking SafetyAxios
Sep 2REGULATIONUS Pushes G20 to Go Hands-Off on AI. Hassabis Objects.Axios
Sep 2REGULATIONA Fed President Says the Data Center Boom Is Crowding OutFortune
Sep 2AIAnthropic Offers Zero Data Retention. You Have to Apply.The Register
Sep 2IPOEight Startups Racing a Closing 2026 IPO WindowCrunchbase News
Sep 2BIG TECHApple's New CEO Starts With a $55 Million Pay Package$55M equity awardFortune
Sep 2AIOpenAI Delays Astra After It Crosses 'Critical' Cyber LineCNBC
Sep 1AIAnthropic Signs $35B Cloud Deal With Nvidia's Lambda$35B cloud dealBloomberg
Sep 1IPOTwelve Companies Filed to Go Public in Forty-Eight HoursSEC EDGAR
Sep 1AIOpenAI Plugs ChatGPT Health Into Epic's Patient RecordsTechCrunch
Sep 1BIG TECHCook Leaves Apple 2,680% Higher Than He Found ItAxios
Sep 1IPOWhy This Week's Real IPO Story Is Old Economy, Not AIValue Add Pulse Analysis
Sep 1FUNDINGThrive Hires Musk's Lawyer Over a Dead $4.2B FIFA Deal$4.2B secondaryTechCrunch
Sep 1AISomeone Stole an AI Safety Lab's API Key. Nobody Noticed.$600K in creditsThe Register
Sep 1AIAIR Raises $50M to Police What AI Agents Install$50M seed (two rounds)TechCrunch
Sep 1FUNDINGAfterQuery Becomes YC's Fastest-Ever Unicorn at $3.2B$3.2B valuationTechCrunch
Sep 1REGULATIONApple Accuses OpenAI of Destroying EvidenceBloomberg
Sep 1BIG TECHGoogle Aims Nano Banana at Canva With a Tool Called PicsTechCrunch
Sep 1AIOpenAI's Astra Crosses Its Own 'Critical' LineCNBC
Sep 1BIG TECHAttackers Hit X Accounts Right After X Money Went LiveTechCrunch
Sep 1FUNDINGAIR Raises $50M to Vet What AI Agents Use$50M seedTechCrunch
Sep 1AIAnthropic's $80 Billion Week, By the Deals~$90B in 3 weeksValue Add Pulse Analysis
Sep 1AIAnthropic's $35B Lambda Deal Has Nvidia Playing Landlord$35B compute dealBloomberg
Sep 1BIG TECHMicrosoft and AWS Finally Built the Multicloud LinkThe Register
Sep 1AIAnthropic Pauses Training, Tells Partners to Tighten UpAxios
Sep 1BIG TECHWaymo Goes on Offense Days Before Tesla's Cybercab DebutTechCrunch
Sep 1IPOUnacademy Sells for $206M After a $3.4B Peak$206M all-stockTechCrunch
Sep 1IPOWhy I'm Wary of OpenAI's Circular Financing WebValue Add Pulse Analysis
Sep 1FUNDINGAIR Raises $50M to Vet What AI Agents Are Allowed to Use$50M seedTechCrunch
Sep 1FUNDINGPolymarket Raises $1B at $21B, Adds Trump Jr.$1B round, $21B valuationForbes
Sep 1REGULATIONFTC Sues Amazon Over $20B in Hidden Ad Overcharges$20B+ allegedCNBC
Sep 1AIPentagon Rolls Out ChatGPT and Grok to 3M PersonnelTechCrunch
Sep 1FUNDINGMiami's Felix Raises $200M to Grow Beyond Remittances$200M Series CCrunchbase News
Sep 1BIG TECHWaymo and Zoox Both Just Expanded the Robotaxi MapCNBC
Sep 1FUNDINGFelix Hits Unicorn Status on $200M Series C$200M Series CCrunchbase News
Sep 1AIData Center Construction Spending Hit $75B Pace in July$75B+ annualized paceAxios
Sep 1IPOSB Energy Files IPO, Warns It's Tied to OpenAI$5-7B target raiseCNBC
Sep 1AIClaude Fable 5.1 Cuts Agentic Costs 45%75% cheaper cache readsVentureBeat
Sep 1FUNDINGa16z's Growth Fund Hits $8.5B, Days After a New $1.1B Fund$8.5B growth fundTechCrunch
Sep 1REGULATIONSony and Warner Sue Anthropic Over 'Thousands' of SongsUp to $150K/work soughtFortune
Sep 1IPOEntrata Refiles Its S-1, Betting Software IPOs Are Back$500M target raiseYahoo Finance
Sep 1FUNDINGProptech's $4.53B Half: Fewer Deals, Bigger AI Bets$4.53B H1 2026Crunchbase News
Sep 1AIThe AI Industry's Agent Control Problem, in Three IncidentsThe Register
Sep 1FUNDINGSequoia-Incubated Empirik Launches With $21M$21M seedTechCrunch
Sep 1IPOKKR-Backed Wella Files for a NYSE Listing as 'WELA'$2.9B FY26 revenueInvesting.com
Sep 1AIOpenAI's Ad Business Hits $1B Run Rate in 200 Days$1B run rateCNBC
Sep 1AICustom Silicon's Widening Front, After Nvidia-MediaTekValue Add Pulse Analysis
Sep 1IPOShein's Hong Kong Debut Falls 9% on Trade Worries$26.5B IPO valuationCNBC
Sep 1AIPerplexity Splits AI Tasks Between Cloud and Your MacVentureBeat
Sep 1AIMediaTek Jumps 10% on Nvidia's $3.5B Chip Bet$3.5B convertible bondsBloomberg
Sep 1AIOpenClaw 2.0 Turns Solo AI Coding Into a Team SportVentureBeat
Sep 1FUNDINGBitcoin's Best Week in Three Years, By the Numbers+23% weekly gainValue Add Pulse Analysis
Sep 1IPOOura's $16B IPO Bet: Can a Wearable Price Like Software?$16B+ target valuationValue Add Pulse Analysis
Aug 31FUNDINGThe AI Capex Supercycle Now Dwarfs Global VCValue Add Pulse Analysis
Aug 31FUNDINGWhy I'm Not Buying the Funding Slowdown StoryValue Add Pulse Analysis
Aug 31IPOWhat SpaceX's Record IPO Means for What's NextValue Add Pulse Analysis
Aug 31BIG TECHTim Cook Steps Down as Apple CEO, Hands Reins to Ternus9to5Mac
Aug 31FUNDINGClipto Hits $250M Valuation on $15M Round$15M at $250M valTechCrunch
Aug 31FUNDINGClay Nears $7B Valuation in New Wellington-Led Round$7B pre-money valuationAxios
Aug 31IPOTailored Brands Refiles IPO, Plots 500 New Men's Wearhouse Stores$681.8M quarterly revenueBloomberg
Aug 31FUNDINGBolt Raises Up to $27M to Survive Its Own CollapseUp to $27M bridgeTechCrunch
Aug 31REGULATIONa16z-Backed Group Buys Data Center Ads in Three States$50M+ PACTechCrunch
Aug 31AIGoogle Quietly Ships a Foundation Model for ForecastingGoogle Research
Aug 31IPOSyntiant's 'Edge AI' IPO Pitch Is Mostly a Microphone Business~$300M target IPOBloomberg
Aug 31IPOWhy Anthropic's IPO Is Shaping Up as AI's Biggest Test~$965B valuationValue Add Pulse Analysis
Aug 31FUNDINGWhy Nvidia Just Pulled Back From Its Own Financing Plan$36B program pausedValue Add Pulse Analysis
Aug 31AIWhat Anthropic's Breach Means for Enterprise AI SecurityValue Add Pulse Analysis
Aug 31FUNDINGPhysical AI, Defense and Robotics Own This Year's Capital$47.4B physical AI H1Value Add Pulse Analysis
Aug 31FUNDINGIndia's Startup Funding Surge Deserves a Second Look$8.91B YTDValue Add Pulse Analysis
Aug 31FUNDINGBlue Voice Raises $6M to Build a Harvey for Cops$6M roundTechCrunch
Aug 31FUNDINGThe WealthTech Squeeze: A $389M Fintech Week, Explained$389M/weekValue Add Pulse Analysis
Aug 31FUNDINGGPU-Backed Debt Is Becoming Its Own Asset Class$100M facilityValue Add Pulse Analysis
Aug 31FUNDINGA16Z's Machine Age Fund: What the $1.1B Is Actually For$1.1B fundValue Add Pulse Analysis
Aug 31FUNDINGDefense Tech's $35.6 Billion Year, By the Comps$35.6B YTD (+40%)Value Add Pulse Analysis
Aug 31AITSMC's $64 Billion Bet and the Memory Bottleneck Ahead$60-64B capexValue Add Pulse Analysis
Aug 31AIClaude Sonnet 5's Permanent Pricing and the Price War$2/$10 per M tokensValue Add Pulse Analysis
Aug 31FUNDINGBiotech Funding Held Its Ground While AI Took the Oxygen$36B-$40B annualCrunchbase News
Aug 31BIG TECHTesla Jumps 3.7% as Optimus Enters Production at Fremont+3.7% on the dayTheStreet
Aug 31AINvidia's $500 Billion Financing Platform, Three Weeks In$500B+ targetValue Add Pulse Analysis
Aug 31FUNDINGIcon Raises $30M From Founders Fund for AI Ad Content$30M Venture RoundAlleyWatch
Aug 31IPOThe Fall IPO Pipeline, By the Numbers237 IPOs YTDValue Add Pulse Analysis
Aug 31IPODeepSeek's Road to a 2027 IPO Looks Nothing Like Anthropic's$7.4B round targetValue Add Pulse Analysis
Aug 31AIAnthropic Locks Out Claude Users After Malware Drains AccountsBleepingComputer
Aug 31IPOSalesforce's $5.1B Anthropic Stake Prices Strategic AI Bets$5.1B stake valueValue Add Pulse Analysis
Aug 31IPONscale's $51 Billion Number Isn't What It Looks Like$51B contractedValue Add Pulse Analysis
Aug 31IPOKakao Mobility's Bet on a US Listing~$1B target listingValue Add Pulse Analysis
Aug 31IPOWhy I'm Skeptical of the 'IPO Window Is Open' StoryValue Add Pulse Analysis

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