IPO Watch - The Wire by FourthWeb - AI, RWA, & Web3 / Web4 Intelligence (Page 55)

AI Agent Economy Mar 25, 2026

Meta Bets One Person With AI Beats a Team of Twenty

Zuckerberg just bet that the next billion-dollar business won't be built by a team of twenty, it'll be built by one person and their AI.

AI Agent Economy Mar 25, 2026

Granola Hits $1.5B by Refusing to Build What VCs Wanted

Granola just 6x'd its valuation in one round by doing what most AI tools refuse to do: listening when users said "we don't want another chatbot, we want something that actually works."

AI Agent Economy Mar 25, 2026

Vultr Raises $1B to Challenge AWS's AI Cloud Dominance

Vultr wants a billion dollars to prove that being early doesn't mean you win. Vultr, a 2014-vintage cloud provider backed by AMD, is raising at least $1 billion to compete in the AI compute arms race

Human Imperative Mar 25, 2026

Breaking News Clicks Surge 103% While AI Overviews Kill Everything Else

While AI overviews are eating media traffic alive, breaking news clicks are up 103%, and the reason reveals exactly where human journalism still wins. Global publisher traffic from Google dropped one-third last year, with organic search down 42% according to Define Media Group analysis

AI Agent Economy Mar 25, 2026

Europe Bets $40M That America Won't Control Space Forever

Europe just wrote a $40 million check to stop asking America for permission to move things in space. Swiss startup Pave Space raised $40 million in seed funding to build orbital transfer hardware for satellites and cargo

Real World Assets Mar 25, 2026

Bitpanda Built Blockchain Banking Rails the EU Will Actually Regulate

Europe's crypto infrastructure is being rebuilt by the firms that survived the last cycle, and Bitpanda just made the most EU move possible: building blockchain rails that banks might actually use.

AI Agent Economy Mar 25, 2026

OpenAI Drops Teen Safety Kit After Regulators Circle Big Tech

OpenAI just handed developers a pre-built safety layer for teen users, and it's less about protecting kids than protecting their own liability. OpenAI released prompt-based teen safety policies through gpt-oss-safeguard, giving developers age-specific moderation guardrails

AI Agent Economy Mar 25, 2026

Amazon and Qatari Billions Chase One German Robotics Startup

Amazon just put money behind the same German robotics startup that's attracting Qatari sovereign wealth, and that tells you everything about where the physical AI race is headed.

Real World Assets Mar 25, 2026

Arm Builds Its First Chip After Decades Selling Blueprints

Arm just stopped being the plumber and started building the house. Arm launched its first AI chip, with Meta and OpenAI signed as initial customers, marking a shift from licensing designs to selling silicon.

Real World Assets Mar 25, 2026

Bitmine Drops $145M on Ethereum in Largest Corporate Buy This Year

Tom Lee's Bitmine just dropped $145 million on ETH, and that tells you everything about where institutional treasury strategy is heading in 2026. Bitmine added $145 million worth of ETH, maintaining its position as the largest corporate ETH treasury holder, ahead of SharpLink and The Ether Machine

AI Agent Economy Mar 25, 2026

SK Hynix Goes Public in US as AI Memory Demand Explodes

SK Hynix is going public in the US to raise capital for AI memory chips, and that tells you more about the agent economy's infrastructure demands than any VC pitch deck. SK Hynix plans to list shares in the US this year, seeking capital to meet AI's surging memory demand

Real World Assets Mar 25, 2026

Cathie Wood Buys $16M Circle Stock While Wall Street Dumps It

Cathie Wood just bought $16 million of Circle while everyone else was selling, and that tells you more about stablecoin infrastructure than the headlines do. Circle's stock dropped 20% Tuesday on a cluster of negative news hitting its stablecoin business all at once.

AI Agent Economy Mar 25, 2026

Thailand's Amity Raises $100M Nobody Saw Coming

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

AI Agent Economy Mar 25, 2026

Anthropic's $19B Revenue Number Is a 4-Week Snapshot Times 13

Anthropic hit $19 billion annualized revenue, 14x growth in a year, but here's the thing about that number: it's a four-week snapshot times 13. Anthropic reached $19B in annualized revenue, up 14x year-over-year, while OpenAI hit $25B at 4x growth

Real World Assets Mar 25, 2026

OpenAI Kills Sora One Year In, Torching Disney's $1B Bet

OpenAI is killing Sora after barely a year, and the mouse is walking away with a billion reasons. OpenAI is shutting down its Sora video generation app and API, months after launch, torpedoing a reported $1 billion partnership with Disney

AI Agent Economy Mar 25, 2026

Judge Questions Whether Trump Can Legally Ban Anthropic AI From Government

A federal judge just questioned whether the Trump administration can legally ban Anthropic's AI from government use, and billions of dollars hang on the answer. The Trump administration banned federal agencies from using Anthropic's Claude chatbot, and a judge now calls that rationale "troubling"

Human Imperative Mar 25, 2026

OpenAI Kills Sora After 8 Months of Burning Cash

OpenAI is killing Sora after eight months, and the corpse tells you everything about where AI money is flowing in 2026. OpenAI is shutting down its Sora video app, including the iOS app, API, and web experience, citing resource constraints and strategic focus.

AI Agent Economy Mar 25, 2026

Slack Blocks AI Agents While Customers Demand Automation Access

The enterprise software giants are building walls around their APIs, and it's about to get messy. Anthropic just released a Claude version that can control any enterprise app like a human would, but Slack, Workday, and LinkedIn are actively blocking customer AI agents from accessing their platforms

Real World Assets Mar 24, 2026

CFTC Launches Task Force After Crypto and AI Already Reshaped Finance

The CFTC just decided it needs to understand the future before it writes the rules for it. The CFTC launched a new innovation task force targeting crypto, AI, and prediction markets The task force aims to create a clear framework of rules for these emerging technologies

Real World Assets Mar 24, 2026

Ethereum's Hidden Gatekeepers Just Raised $6.7M to Rewrite the Rules

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