A Thai AI startup just raised $100 million, and if you haven't heard of them, that's exactly the point. Amity, a Thailand-based generative AI company, closed a $100 million funding round as it prepares for an IPO and scales its enterprise AI integration platform
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OpenAI just killed Sora days after Disney committed $1 billion to build on it, and the lesson isn't about video generation. OpenAI shut down its Sora video tool this week, days after Disney agreed to invest $1 billion and license its characters for the platform in December
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Sam Altman just told his entire company that raising money and building datacenters matters more than safety oversight.
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OpenAI just committed to spending $1 billion through its nonprofit arm in 2026, a curious move for a company that just restructured to maximize for-profit returns.
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Ethereum's plumbing just got programmable, and that changes who can build what on-chain. Eureka Labs raised $6.7 million to introduce "programmable blocks" that embed logic directly into Ethereum block construction
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While crypto VCs tighten their belts, ParaFi just closed $125 million and nobody's talking about what that actually means. ParaFi Capital raised $125 million for a new fund during a crypto downturn, bringing total AUM to $2 billion
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Fast Company's 2026 finance innovators list is actually a snapshot of Web4 infrastructure being built in plain sight. Fast Company's 2026 finance innovation honorees reveal AI agents (Ramp's expense approval automation) and tokenization plays (Robinhood's stock tokenization) as the dominant themes
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Corporate America has frozen its checkbook because CEOs can't value what AI might destroy tomorrow. Tech M&A activity has stalled in 2026 as corporate leaders cite AI uncertainty as the primary blocker, according to bankers and lawyers at the Tulane Corporate Law Institute
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A solo GP just raised $232M to bet on AI startups, and the size of the check tells you everything about where institutional money thinks the talent is.
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Europe's banks are blocking its AI future, and the ECB just said the quiet part out loud. ECB Chief Economist Philip Lane says Europe's bank-heavy funding model is keeping the continent from capitalizing on AI innovation
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Elon Musk is betting he can out-manufacture NVIDIA by vertically integrating chip production across Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI. Musk plans to manufacture custom chips for robotics, AI training, and SpaceX's orbital data centers, consolidating production across his empire
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Michael Saylor just announced plans to raise $42 billion for more Bitcoin, doubling down on the biggest corporate crypto bet in history. Strategy Inc. plans a $42 billion capital raise to buy more Bitcoin, expanding its existing $4+ billion holdings
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Gimlet Labs just raised $80M to make your AI model chip-agnostic, and if they pull it off, NVIDIA's moat just got a lot narrower. Gimlet Labs closed an $80M Series A to build software that runs AI inference across NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, ARM, Cerebras, and d-Matrix chips simultaneously
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Europe's rocket startups are learning Silicon Valley's playbook: raise fast, launch faster, and hope the trajectory holds. Isar Aerospace is raising €250 million just as they prep for a critical launch this week
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Michael Saylor just switched funding mechanisms mid-playbook, and the choice itself is the signal. Strategy Inc. bought $76.5 million in Bitcoin using common stock, pivoting away from preferred shares after just one week
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SoftBank just bet $225 million that the next AI infrastructure play isn't about training models—it's about moving data faster between chips. Kandou AI raised $225 million from SoftBank, Maverick Silicon, and Synopsys for AI chip interconnect technology
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A German observability startup just hit unicorn status by promising to make AI agents actually debuggable. Dash0 raised $110 million at a $1 billion valuation, led by Balderton Capital, to expand its monitoring platform in the US
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Across Protocol just floated selling equity instead of tokens, and the DAO world is having an identity crisis. Across Protocol proposed a "temp check" to raise funds by selling equity rather than tokens, signaling potential fatigue with pure token models
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China's Unitree just filed to raise $610 million in Shanghai, and the number that matters isn't the fundraise, it's what they're actually selling.
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Software companies are bleeding 13.8% of revenue on stock comp while the rest of corporate America spends 1.1%, and with AI threat vibes rising, that gap just became indefensible.
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