China Launches Its 'Token Economy' Push as AI Startups Ride a $300B VC Wave
China is pushing a national token economy strategy backed by open-source AI models, even as U.S. export controls bite — and global VC sets a new Q1 record of $300B.
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The Weekly Brief #018: AI Arms Race, $21B Cloud Deals, Record VC, and a Ransomware Blitz
Your weekly tech digest: TSMC posts $35.7B Q1 record, Meta locks in a $21B CoreWeave deal, Anthropic hides its most powerful AI, and ransomware hits from Germany to Hollywood.
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VC Funding Smashes All Records: $297 Billion Poured Into Startups in Q1 2026
Global startup investment hit $297 billion across ~6,000 companies in Q1 2026 — a 2.5x jump over Q4 and more than 70% of all VC deployed in full-year 2025, per Crunchbase.
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CoreWeave and Meta Lock In a $21 Billion AI Cloud Deal Through 2032
Meta commits $21 billion to CoreWeave's AI cloud platform through December 2032, securing early access to NVIDIA's next-gen Vera Rubin chips and massive inference capacity.
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Hypersonic Unicorns, Physical-AI Billions & Space Servicing: The Biggest Startup Deals of April 7–9, 2026
The biggest startup funding rounds of April 7–9, 2026: Hermeus raises $350M to become a hypersonic unicorn, Eclipse Ventures closes a $1.3B physical-AI fund, and Starfish Space secures $110M to service the orbital economy.
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Q1 2026 Venture Capital Hit $297 Billion — The Strongest Quarter in History
Q1 2026 VC hit $297B — a new record. AI took 44%. Defence tech is the new frontier. Here's the breakdown.
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SpaceX IPO Rumours, $32M for National Security AI, and the April 2 Startup Funding Roundup
Startups & Money SpaceX IPO Rumours, $32M for National Security AI, and...
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$274B in One Day: OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenRouter, and OneStream's Monster April 1 Funding Sweep
Startups & Money $274B in One Day: OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenRouter, and OneStream’s...
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Replit at $9B: How “Vibe Coding” Became a $1B ARR Business — And What It Means for Software Jobs
Replit raised $400M at a $9B valuation and is approaching $1B ARR — all by letting non-developers build real software with AI. Alex Rivera unpacks the vibe coding revolution and what it means for software jobs.
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$1B Seed, $2B Series C, $400M Vibe Coding: The Most Insane Funding Week in VC History
In the week ending March 29, Yann LeCun's AMI Labs raised a $1.03B seed (the largest in European history), Nscale closed a $2B Series C at $14.6B (largest European equity round ever), Replit hit $9B at $400M raised, and OpenAI crossed $120B total. Alex Rivera breaks down the most capital-dense week in startup history and what it means for the next decade of AI.
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