Sequoia Capital just brought Doug Leone back from the bench, and that tells you everything about what venture thinks is coming next. Doug Leone, a Sequoia investor since 1988, is now chairman and back in the deal game after stepping away in 2022
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OpenAI just pulled $3 billion from retail investors in a $122 billion raise that values the company at $852 billion, and if you think that number sounds insane, you're paying attention.
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Anthropic's source code leak just gave us the clearest look yet at where AI assistants are actually heading, and it's weirder than you think. Claude Code's latest update accidentally shipped with 512,000+ lines of TypeScript source code, exposing Anthropic's roadmap before they were ready to show it
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Oracle just burned through so much cash building AI infrastructure that it's now cutting thousands of jobs and taking on tens of billions in debt. Oracle is laying off thousands of employees after aggressive AI data center spending drained cash reserves
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OpenAI just closed $122 billion in commitments, but only a fraction hits the bank account now. OpenAI finalized a massive funding round with $122 billion in total commitments, though most of the capital won't arrive immediately
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Microsoft is about to write a $7 billion check to own its own power plant in Texas, and that tells you everything about where AI infrastructure is heading.
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OpenAI just closed a $122 billion raise at an $852 billion valuation, and the number that matters isn't the price tag—it's what they're buying time to build. OpenAI raised $122 billion at an $852 billion valuation, the largest funding round in the company's history
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The agent economy just hired its first probation officers. Meta and Amazon are dealing with AI agents causing security breaches and outages, pushing ServiceNow and startups to build "guardian AI agents" that monitor and control other agents
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OpenAI just raised $122 billion at an $852 billion valuation, and the check isn't for software developers. OpenAI closed a $122 billion funding round at an $852 billion valuation, the largest in the company's history
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Nvidia just wrote a $2 billion check to Marvell, and it's not about owning another chip company—it's about controlling the entire AI infrastructure stack. Nvidia invested $2 billion in Marvell Technology as part of a strategic partnership focused on silicon photonics and custom AI chip integration
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OpenAI just raised $122 billion at an $830 billion pre-money valuation, making it the largest funding round in tech history and crowning it the world's most valuable private company.
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A crowdsourced AI feedback startup with $33M from a16z crypto just folded in under a year. Yupp.ai is shutting down less than a year after launch, despite raising $33M with Chris Dixon from a16z crypto leading
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OpenAI just raised $122 billion, the largest tech fundraise in history, and the money isn't going where you think. OpenAI closed a $122 billion funding round to expand frontier AI research, build compute infrastructure, and scale ChatGPT and enterprise tools globally
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Elon Musk's 2022 Twitter takeover just became a class-action problem, and the legal bill for building in public keeps climbing. A judge granted class-action status to Twitter shareholders suing Musk over his conduct during the 2022 buyout
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Rivian's e-bike spinoff just hit unicorn status by betting that the future of delivery isn't just electric, it's autonomous. Also, the electric bike company spun out of Rivian, closed a funding round at $1 billion valuation and signed a partnership with DoorDash focused on autonomous delivery
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Whoop just crossed $10 billion without selling you a screen, and that tells you everything about where wearables are actually headed. Whoop hit a $10 billion valuation in its latest funding round, signaling investor appetite for health tech that doesn't need your eyeballs
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A drone boat startup just raised more money than most unicorns see in their entire lifecycle, and the Pentagon didn't even have to cut the check. Saronic Technologies raised $1.75 billion for autonomous military vessels, one of the largest defense tech rounds ever
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Allbirds just sold for $39 million after peaking at a $4 billion valuation, and the gap between those numbers tells you everything about what venture capital got wrong about consumer brands.
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Anthropic just accidentally showed the world how their coding agent actually works, and the leak suggests they're building capabilities they haven't announced yet. Anthropic leaked source code for Claude Code, exposing internal architecture and references to unreleased models
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Runway just put $10M on the table to bankroll the companies building on top of its video models, and the real play isn't funding, it's ecosystem lock-in.
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