The search giant races to build AI infrastructure while its environmental footprint hits record highs—a masterclass in having your carbon cake and eating it too.
Read full article →Apple and Microsoft are raising hardware prices because training AI models is apparently someone else's problem to solve.
Read full article →Established mega-fund raises $2.5B by simply deciding what it was raising all along.
Read full article →Nothing says 'we've earned a seat at the table' like showing up uninvited and refusing to leave.
Read full article →In two trading days, SpaceX has achieved what Amazon took decades to build: a market cap, minus the revenue.
Read full article →A billion-dollar AI company discovered Friday night that shipping products requires permission slips from people who don't use them.
Read full article →When U.S. national security policy forces a venture-backed AI company to eliminate its entire customer base rather than comply with export controls.
Read full article →A stock with fewer shares than a mid-cap biotech somehow validates trillion-dollar valuations.
Read full article →When a CEO's immunity from consequences becomes a venture asset class, the market has officially broken.
Read full article →The venture capital industry has now experienced an entire emotional arc without anyone proving AI actually makes money.
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