The AI boom has created a two-speed startup economy. Companies building on generative AI are raising at historically unprecedented valuations, while startups that last raised capital before ChatGPT launched in November 2022 are watching their worth collapse. According to PitchBook valuation estimates, more than 220 companies that once held billion-dollar valuations have now fallen below that threshold, […]
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Dell spent years being valued as a maker of laptops and storage boxes, a solid, unexciting business in a mature market. The AI build-out has rewritten that story in a single quarter. The company’s shares have climbed around 40% across the run into and out of its latest results, after record numbers and a raised […]
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Every finance vendor with a pulse has slapped “AI-powered” on their homepage in the last 18 months. Most of them are exaggerating, not maliciously, but loosely. They’re calling forecasting “modeling,” trend extension “intelligence,” and pattern matching “reasoning.” The terms get blurred on purpose because the blur sells. Here’s the cleaner version of the truth: AI is genuinely […]
