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5 articles tagged “startups”.

Anthropic Closes $65B Series H at $965B Valuation, Dethroning OpenAI

Anthropic closes a $65 billion Series H at a $965 billion post-money valuation, eclipsing OpenAI's peak and signaling intense capital concentration ahead of a potential public listing.

May 29, 20263 min read

AI & ML

Building on Someone Else's Model Is a Rented Moat

The app layer is where AI meets users — and where defensibility is hardest. When your core capability is an API call, your moat is rented.

May 25, 20262 min read

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AI & ML

Google didn't acquire Contextual AI. It took the team and the tech — the new playbook.

Google DeepMind is paying ~$80–90M to hire 20+ Contextual AI researchers (incl. Douwe Kiela) and license the tech — without acquiring the company. The same antitrust-dodging acqui-hire it ran with Windsurf, Character, and Hume.

May 22, 20263 min read

Technology

Europe gave up chasing the next OpenAI. Its 2026 bet is hard tech and sovereignty.

Beyond Mistral and Lovable, Europe is making a deliberate, state-backed bet on fusion, launchers, chips, and defense. Sovereignty as an investment thesis — the right strategy, with one familiar failure mode.

May 22, 20263 min read

AI & ML

siliXon wants you to design circuit boards by describing them. It just raised $1.5M.

A UK startup co-founded by Romanian engineer Mihai Mesteru turns a sentence into a production-ready PCB. The pre-seed is in; the hard part is whether the boards actually work.

May 22, 20263 min read