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Firms such as Jane Street are investing in AI and chip startups and neoclouds, and some are building their own data centers.
Proposed regulations would strengthen the Treasury's Outbound Investment Security Program to curb US investment in AI, chip and biotech deals in China and Russia.
Papermark launched secure data rooms that AI agents can run, live in under 60 seconds.
(0:00) Bestie intros! (0:11) Ken Griffin's AI bubble warning (8:19) Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora joins (14:24) AI Cyber panic: PHP exploits and the tumultuous year ahead (44:17) France on the brink: Riots, immigration referendum, debt crisis (1:31:49) Trump's second half strategy, Press…
Early-stage and follow-on investors in the AI lab are already sitting on major paper returns.
Top investors from Iconiq and Sapphire Ventures, along with Rahul Vohra, the founder of Superhuman Mail, share the do's and don'ts for building hit products.
A new program wants to encourage more startups to allow workers to cash out early by making it easier to transact tender offers.
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Andy Jassy tells Ben Horowitz Amazon expects to spend roughly $220 billion in capex in 2026 and is still leaving AI demand on the table.
Crunchbase says the week's largest financings went to AI processor maker Tenstorrent and AI lab Flapping Airplanes.
Daytona is building a cloud that gives every agent its own computer; it says founders of Stripe, Perplexity, Datadog and Mercor are angels.
a16z is expanding a16z crypto into a16z Frontier, a broader mandate to back founders building at the edges of what's possible. Chris Dixon joins Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, and Erik Torenberg to explain why founders should increasingly ask not “is this too ambitious?” but “is this ambitious…
The digital asset unit, helmed by Chris Dixon, broadens its scope.
Nine months after a $180M seed, the year-old lab raised a $1B Series A; The Next Web, citing Bloomberg, says Index Ventures and Lux Capital led. It is building AI models "without ingesting half the internet" and has no product yet.
Bloomberg reports, citing sources, that DeepSeek raised about 100 billion yuan; CATL and Tencent were among the biggest contributors.
Bloomberg describes investors buying into the same round at escalating valuations ("tranched, two-step rounds"), with AI startup Emulate as an example.
Stockholm-based Legora announced a $550M Series E at an $8.8B post-money valuation.
Blacksmith runs continuous-integration infrastructure for building and testing code; its $66M Series C, led by Sequoia, values it at $1B.
Foursquare raised $411M according to PitchBook data, yet its co-founder says equity holders saw no returns from the final acquisition.
Blackstone’s AI head on why the PE giant isn't panicked by market jitters.
Thirty years ago, general-purpose chips beat specialized ones in the semiconductor industry’s great strategy debate. Today the same debate is back, but with new constraints.
Crunchbase News spoke with James Kim, partner at Reach Capital, about how Reach’s education roots inform its broader strategy, what it saw in AI detection company GPTZero, and why some of its best investments initially divided its own team.
Startup acquisitions can reshape employees’ finances and careers, with individual outcomes depending on a variety of conditions. Guest author Ron Honig, co-CEO and managing partner of From-Honig Family Office, suggests that before making major life changes, employees should clarify their award…
