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Artur Markus

onFebruary 26, 2026

SpaceX Acquires xAI for $250 Billion—Largest Private Acquisition in History Creates $1.25 Trillion AI-Space Infrastructure Giant

Elon Musk just closed the largest private acquisition in history—and it’s not about rockets or AI. It’s about escaping…

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Artur Markus

onFebruary 25, 2026

Higgsfield Hits $1.3B Valuation with $200M ARR Just 9 Months After Launch—Ex-Snap AI Lead’s Video Generator Reaches 15M Users Creating 4.5M Videos Daily

A consumer video app just hit unicorn status in 9 months by betting on something counterintuitive: 85% of its 15 million users are…

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Artur Markus

onFebruary 15, 2026

Ilya Sutskever’s SSI Raises $1B+ at $30B Valuation With Zero Revenue—6x Jump in 5 Months Redefines AI Investment Logic

A company with no product, no customers, and no revenue just received a $30 billion valuation. Safe Superintelligence proves that in 2025, the…

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Artur Markus

onFebruary 6, 2026

OpenClaw Hits 150,000 GitHub Stars in 10 Weeks—Open-Source AI Assistant Overtakes Major Projects with 416,000+ npm Downloads

A weekend project by an Austrian developer just outpaced a decade of GitHub growth patterns—150,000 stars in 10 weeks for an AI agent that…

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Artur Markus

onJanuary 23, 2026

Neural Concept Launches AI Design Copilot After $100 Million Goldman Sachs-Led Round at CES 2026

Goldman Sachs just bet $100 million that the next AI gold rush isn’t in chatbots or code generation—it’s in replacing the grinding…

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Artur Markus

onJanuary 21, 2026

OpenAI Signs $10 Billion Cerebras Deal for 750 Megawatts of AI Inference Infrastructure Through 2028

OpenAI just mass-ordered 750 megawatts of specialized silicon that isn’t made by NVIDIA. The $10 billion Cerebras deal signals that the…

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Artur Markus

onJanuary 19, 2026

Sequoia Backs Anthropic’s $25B Round at $350B Valuation—While Still Funding OpenAI and xAI

Sequoia just broke Silicon Valley’s oldest rule: never fund your portfolio’s competitors. Their bet on Anthropic—while backing…

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Artur Markus

onJanuary 18, 2026

xAI Raises $20 Billion at $230 Billion Valuation, Plans 50 Million H100-Equivalent GPU Deployment by 2030

xAI just raised more in one round than most AI companies are worth—and plans to deploy 50× more compute than it has today. The math is…

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Artur Markus

onDecember 21, 2025

The AI Liability Insurance Paradox: Why Insurers Are Writing Exclusions Faster Than Companies Can Write AI Governance Policies—And What It Means for Corporate Accountability

Your company just became uninsurable for the very technology your board approved last quarter. The insurance industry knows something you don’t.

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Artur Markus

onDecember 5, 2025

The 75% Problem: Why Corporate Venture Capital’s Stranglehold on AI Startups Is Creating an Innovation Monoculture

The numbers don’t lie: when three-quarters of your funding comes from companies that compete with you, you’re not building a…

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