Big Tech’s $725 billion AI spending wave is turning free cash flow into a distant memory – Startup Fortune
The hyperscalers have collectively raised their 2026 capital spending guidance to $725 billion, up 77 percent from 2025, pushing combined…
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Tech layoffs are funding AI capex, and the labor market reset is creating startup opportunity on both sides – Startup Fortune
Tech sector job cuts surpassed 92,000 in the first four months of 2026 at an average of 882 per day,…
The ‘PayPal Mafia’ built a $1.5 billion fintech pioneer. The company they left behind is struggling | Fortune
Nineteen years ago, in a Fortune cover story that christened the group, the so-called “PayPal Mafia” gathered in San Francisco…
AI, robotics, climate tech: How VCaaS helps corporations enter deep tech safely | Fortune
Artificial Intelligence (AI), robotics, and climate technologies are no longer distant future technologies. They are rapidly becoming the infrastructure of…
The Nobitex story is a warning about what happens when a fintech startup grows faster than its accountability – Startup Fortune
Reuters has published an investigation into Nobitex, Iran’s largest crypto exchange, finding that the platform founded by the politically connected…
Fun raises $72 million to build the payment rails that make crypto transactions feel like normal fintech – Startup Fortune
Fun, a payments infrastructure company connecting fiat and crypto rails for consumer finance apps, has raised $72 million in Series…
Calligo Technologies is raising up to $15 million to prove that India can build the chips powering the next wave of AI infrastructure – Startup Fortune
Bengaluru-based chip startup Calligo Technologies is in talks to raise $12 million to $15 million in a round expected to…
Vlad Tenev says a tokenization supercycle is underway and Robinhood is betting its future on being right – Startup Fortune
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev used the company’s first-quarter earnings call this week to argue that a tokenization supercycle is already…
Trump-tied public crypto company buys startup from one-time ‘cannabis king’ who serves as current advisor in deal worth up to $43 million | Fortune
AI Financial, a publicly traded crypto firm tied to President Donald Trump’s family, has purchased a startup owned by one…
Big Tech is spending $725 billion on AI infrastructure and the market is starting to ask when that bill comes due – Startup Fortune
The largest American technology companies have collectively committed up to $725 billion in capital expenditures this year, nearly all of…
Exclusive: AI-powered recruiting startup Dex raises $5.3 million seed round led by Notion Capital | Fortune
Paddy Lambros spent two and a half years advising roughly 100 European startups on hiring at the London-based venture capital…
How a Spanish startup pivoted to video AI and built a $230 million ARR business with no VC funding | Fortune
Greetings, Tech Editor Alexei Oreskovic guest-writing your Term Sheet today. Silicon Valley likes to think of itself as the center…
POET Technologies shares collapse 50% after Celestial AI cancels all orders – Startup Fortune
POET Technologies loses its main customer overnight as Marvell scraps orders post-acquisition, exposing the brutal customer risks in AI photonics.…
Anta is the Chinese sports giant you have never heard of and it is coming for Nike – Startup Fortune
With a $1.8 billion stake in Puma, a Beverly Hills flagship, and 23% of China’s sportswear market already in hand,…
IRS AI audits go live, forcing tax tech to build defenses – Startup Fortune
The IRS flipped the switch on AI-driven audit selection April 16, cross-checking 2026 returns against bank, gig, and crypto data…
I lost my job to AI. Here’s why mass layoffs won’t transform your company | Fortune
In 2022, I was hired to build AI operations at a health-tech startup. At the time, we were pioneering the…
Chinese AI Tech Turned America’s Best AI Against Itself and the Results Are Unsettling – Startup Fortune
DeepSeek V4 has arrived with benchmarks that rattle Silicon Valley, open-source weights anyone can download, and a backdrop of allegations…
Tiny gold bars are going viral and the fintech industry is paying close attention – Startup Fortune
Retail investors are flooding social media with photos of their first gram of gold, and what looks like a personal…