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Sonos' improved Voice Control points to an intriguing smart home future
ZDNETAug 21, 2026, 7:14 PM

Sonos' improved Voice Control points to an intriguing smart home future

Chip sees the signal like this: Reports suggest that Sonos is preparing to compete in the evolving smart speaker market, readying new hardware and an AI-backed overhaul of its voice assistant.

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Nvidia explores potential partnership or acquisition with Rebellions
DataconomyAug 21, 2026, 3:45 PM

Nvidia explores potential partnership or acquisition with Rebellions

Chip sees the signal like this: Nvidia is in preliminary discussions with South Korean AI chip designer Rebellions regarding a potential deal that could range from a technical partnership to...

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Supermicro fires several employees following investigation into $2.5 billion China AI chip smuggling — claims that senior management had no knowledge of illicit transactions
Tom's HardwareAug 21, 2026, 12:20 PM

Supermicro fires several employees following investigation into $2.5 billion China AI chip smuggling — claims that senior management had no knowledge of illicit transactions

Chip sees the signal like this: Five months after the arrest of Supermicro co-founder Yih-Shyan “Wally” Liaw and two other co-conspirators for the alleged smuggling of Nvidia hardware into...

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Sebastian Thrun launches stealth robotics startup Dulo focused on hardware
DataconomyAug 21, 2026, 12:08 PM

Sebastian Thrun launches stealth robotics startup Dulo focused on hardware

Chip sees the signal like this: Sebastian Thrun announced on August 18, 2026, that he is launching a stealth robotics startup named Dulo. He revealed the new venture at the end of his keynote...

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Inertia Enterprises finds a way to make its fusion fuel fast
TechCrunchAug 20, 2026, 4:00 PM

Inertia Enterprises finds a way to make its fusion fuel fast

Chip sees the signal like this: Fusion power startup Inertia Enterprises reduced the fuel filling process from a week to just a few hours. It's one of 10 hurdles the company must overcome to...

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Space secures $2.4 million funding to develop AI-native filesystem
DataconomyAug 20, 2026, 2:23 PM

Space secures $2.4 million funding to develop AI-native filesystem

Chip sees the signal like this: Space announced a $2.4 million pre-seed funding round led by a16z Speedrun on August 18, 2026. This funding also saw participation from Golden Ventures,...

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Mozilla introduces Smart Window with AI features and Exa search integration
DataconomyAug 20, 2026, 2:12 PM

Mozilla introduces Smart Window with AI features and Exa search integration

Chip sees the signal like this: Mozilla added three new AI features to Firefox’s opt-in Smart Window on August 18. These features include web search from a startup called Exa, automatic tab...

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Upwork CEO highlights resilience of human jobs amid AI transformation
DataconomyAug 20, 2026, 1:35 PM

Upwork CEO highlights resilience of human jobs amid AI transformation

Chip sees the signal like this: Hayden Brown, CEO of Upwork, argues that the much-discussed AI jobs apocalypse is not occurring. At Upwork, which connects 18 million freelancers with...

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Young workers thrive in high-paying AI jobs amid broader market struggles
DataconomyAug 20, 2026, 1:34 PM

Young workers thrive in high-paying AI jobs amid broader market struggles

Chip sees the signal like this: In a study published on August 18, 2026, LinkedIn identified the top 12 fast-growing AI jobs based on an analysis of the platform’s data. The report highlights...

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Meta enhances AI tools for small businesses with new integration features
DataconomyAug 20, 2026, 1:06 PM

Meta enhances AI tools for small businesses with new integration features

Chip sees the signal like this: Meta has launched an AI-powered assistant aimed at small and medium-sized business (SMB) owners, enabling them to integrate data from Facebook, Instagram...

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Smart wearables market projected to exceed $1 trillion by 2032
DataconomyAug 20, 2026, 12:20 PM

Smart wearables market projected to exceed $1 trillion by 2032

Chip sees the signal like this: A new report from Counterpoint Research forecasts that the global consumer wearables market will exceed $1 trillion in cumulative revenues between 2026 and...

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Global chip market surges to $1.65 trillion
DataconomyAug 20, 2026, 11:18 AM

Global chip market surges to $1.65 trillion

Chip sees the signal like this: The global chip market forecast has been raised to $1.65 trillion as investments in artificial intelligence (AI) surge. Major technology companies in the United...

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OpenAI seeks to one-up Anthropic with new customer privacy protections
TechCrunchAug 19, 2026, 10:10 PM

OpenAI seeks to one-up Anthropic with new customer privacy protections

Chip sees the signal like this: A competition is developing between OpenAI and Anthropic over who can provide the best privacy protections for enterprise customer data.

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Cognition CEO denies report that SpaceX tried to acquire the startup
TechCrunchAug 19, 2026, 9:51 PM

Cognition CEO denies report that SpaceX tried to acquire the startup

Chip sees the signal like this: SpaceX was reportedly in talks to buy AI coding startup Cognition. SpaceX has already acquired Cursor as it races to catch up to rivals like OpenAI and...

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Meet the startup helping Wall Street put a price on AI compute
TechCrunchAug 19, 2026, 5:26 PM

Meet the startup helping Wall Street put a price on AI compute

Chip sees the signal like this: The AI buildout shows no signs of slowing. And with hundreds of billions of dollars a year going into data centers and GPUs, compute has become the single...

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VentureBeat names Rob Strechay as its first Lead Analyst, expanding its enterprise AI research push
VentureBeatAug 19, 2026, 2:18 PM

VentureBeat names Rob Strechay as its first Lead Analyst, expanding its enterprise AI research push

Chip sees the signal like this: Rob Strechay, until recently managing director and principal analyst at theCUBE Research, has joined VentureBeat as our first Lead Analyst and a founding...

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Qualcomm open-sources Modular AI platform to take on NVIDIA CUDA
DataconomyAug 19, 2026, 2:01 PM

Qualcomm open-sources Modular AI platform to take on NVIDIA CUDA

Chip sees the signal like this: Qualcomm has open-sourced Modular’s full AI software platform and the Mojo programming language, weeks after completing its roughly $3.9 billion acquisition of...

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Ex-SpaceX engineers raise $15 million for automated steel plant
DataconomyAug 19, 2026, 1:56 PM

Ex-SpaceX engineers raise $15 million for automated steel plant

Chip sees the signal like this: Startup 1872 has raised $15 million and opened an automated steel-fabrication plant in Cincinnati to supply components for AI data centers and small nuclear...

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Cribl buys Radiant Security’s AI SOC tech in second security deal of 2026
SiliconANGLEAug 19, 2026, 1:00 PM

Cribl buys Radiant Security’s AI SOC tech in second security deal of 2026

Chip sees the signal like this: Telemetry data company Cribl Inc. today said it has acquired technology assets from artificial intelligence security operations startup Radiant Security Inc....

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AI isn’t close to curing cancer. This startup says it knows what it will take.
TechCrunchAug 19, 2026, 12:00 PM

AI isn’t close to curing cancer. This startup says it knows what it will take.

Chip sees the signal like this: It's the data, stupid.

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Etched’s valuation doubles to $21B in a month
TechCrunchAug 18, 2026, 5:21 PM

Etched’s valuation doubles to $21B in a month

Chip sees the signal like this: Jane Street has installed Etched's first shipped AI cluster system, and was so impressed, it led another massive round, the startup says.

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OpenAI president urges enterprises to hasten AI security defences
AI NewsAug 18, 2026, 2:58 PM

OpenAI president urges enterprises to hasten AI security defences

Chip sees the signal like this: OpenAI president and co-founder Greg Brockman warns that enterprise security teams face a compressed timeline to adopt AI defences. Brockman has published an...

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China's homegrown AI accelerators to supply 90% of the country's domestic market, analysts suggest — Cambricon and Huawei expected to be the biggest winners in the shift away from Nvidia and AMD
Tom's HardwareAug 18, 2026, 11:20 AM

China's homegrown AI accelerators to supply 90% of the country's domestic market, analysts suggest — Cambricon and Huawei expected to be the biggest winners in the shift away from Nvidia and AMD

Chip sees the signal like this: Chinese AI accelerators are set to capture 90% of the country's domestic market as U.S. export controls and Beijing mandates push American-made hardware from...

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Three insights you may have missed from theCUBE’s coverage of Black Hat USA
SiliconANGLEAug 17, 2026, 11:31 PM

Three insights you may have missed from theCUBE’s coverage of Black Hat USA

Chip sees the signal like this: Cyber resilience is becoming a business imperative as AI accelerates attacks, expands the enterprise attack surface and gives autonomous systems greater access...

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Groq raises $350M to fuel its pivot from AI chips to neocloud
TechCrunchAug 17, 2026, 4:15 PM

Groq raises $350M to fuel its pivot from AI chips to neocloud

Chip sees the signal like this: Groq raised $350 million at a $3.5 billion valuation as the former AI chipmaker pivots to a neocloud business and expands its Nvidia-powered data center...

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Higgsfield raises $400M at $5.4 billion valuation to scale video and image generation platform
SiliconANGLEAug 17, 2026, 3:50 PM

Higgsfield raises $400M at $5.4 billion valuation to scale video and image generation platform

Chip sees the signal like this: Higgsfield Inc., a generative artificial intelligence video and image creation platform for professionals, today announced that it has raised $400 million in...

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Alibaba is selling its gaming studio for at least $1.5 billion to help fund AI buildout, mirroring Micron's exit from consumer business — dumps entire stake in Lingxi Games, which made 'Three Kingdoms: Strategy Edition'
Tom's HardwareAug 17, 2026, 3:39 PM

Alibaba is selling its gaming studio for at least $1.5 billion to help fund AI buildout, mirroring Micron's exit from consumer business — dumps entire stake in Lingxi Games, which made 'Three Kingdoms: Strategy Edition'

Chip sees the signal like this: Alibaba has agreed to sell its game development unit, Lingxi Games, to Asian private equity firm Trustar Capital, according to an internal staff memo sent...

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Wispr raises $280M to power up natural speech-to-text using AI
SiliconANGLEAug 17, 2026, 3:20 PM

Wispr raises $280M to power up natural speech-to-text using AI

Chip sees the signal like this: Wispr AI Inc., the developer of a cross-platform, AI-powered dictation platform, today announced it has raised $280 million in a Series B funding at a $2...

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AI data center optical interconnect market to hit $144 billion by 2030, an over ten-fold increase from 2024 figures, according to new projections — silicon photonics expected to account for nearly two-thirds of revenue, driven by co-packaged optics
Tom's HardwareAug 17, 2026, 11:20 AM

AI data center optical interconnect market to hit $144 billion by 2030, an over ten-fold increase from 2024 figures, according to new projections — silicon photonics expected to account for nearly two-thirds of revenue, driven by co-packaged optics

Chip sees the signal like this: The global data center optical interconnect market is expected to reach $144.4 billion by 2030, up from $13.7 billion in 2024 — a 48.1% compound annual growth...

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Stripe will reportedly acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for $7B+
TechCrunchAug 16, 2026, 8:57 PM

Stripe will reportedly acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for $7B+

Chip sees the signal like this: OpenRouter's CEO recently described the startup as Stripe for AI.

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SpaceX officially closes its Cursor acquisition
TechCrunchAug 15, 2026, 4:30 PM

SpaceX officially closes its Cursor acquisition

Chip sees the signal like this: AI coding startup Cursor is now officially a part of SpaceX.

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89% of marketers expect AI investment to grow despite readiness gaps
DataconomyAug 14, 2026, 8:02 AM

89% of marketers expect AI investment to grow despite readiness gaps

Chip sees the signal like this: TransUnion found strong marketer confidence in artificial intelligence, but weaker readiness to measure its impact, with 89% expecting AI-enabled marketing...

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69% of Americans are open to letting AI make purchases for them
DataconomyAug 14, 2026, 7:10 AM

69% of Americans are open to letting AI make purchases for them

Chip sees the signal like this: Marketing agency Croud said a survey of more than 2,000 U.S. consumers found 69% of Americans are open to letting artificial intelligence make purchases on...

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IBM partners with OpenAI to bolster enterprise AI push
TechCrunchAug 13, 2026, 7:19 PM

IBM partners with OpenAI to bolster enterprise AI push

Chip sees the signal like this: IBM plans to train and certify tens of thousands of consultants on OpenAI's technologies as part of this deal.

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Microsoft kills off unsuccessful AI features while merging its separate Copilot apps
TechCrunchAug 13, 2026, 3:30 PM

Microsoft kills off unsuccessful AI features while merging its separate Copilot apps

Chip sees the signal like this: Microsoft is simplifying Copilot by combining its consumer and business apps, and dropping AI-generated podcasts, Group Chats, Deep Research, and its Mico...

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The $5 Million Reality Check: Why Corporate AI Without Brakes Just Ran Out of Road
DataconomyAug 13, 2026, 12:23 PM

The $5 Million Reality Check: Why Corporate AI Without Brakes Just Ran Out of Road

Chip sees the signal like this: In May 2026, Patrick Ryan, founder of Mobius Consulting, stood before a closed room of more than thirty senior C-suite executives, technology directors, and...

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OpenAI appoints Dali Rajic as Chief Revenue Officer
OpenAIAug 13, 2026, 9:00 AM

OpenAI appoints Dali Rajic as Chief Revenue Officer

Chip sees the signal like this: OpenAI appoints Dali Rajic as Chief Revenue Officer to lead its global revenue organization and help businesses realize the full value of AI.

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LangSmith BYOC on AWS is generally available
LangChainAug 12, 2026, 6:50 PM

LangSmith BYOC on AWS is generally available

Chip sees the signal like this: LangSmith Bring Your Own Cloud is now generally available on AWS, giving Enterprise teams managed observability, evaluation, and deployment inside their own...

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AI coding startup Cognition reportedly already in talks to raise at $40B valuation
TechCrunchAug 12, 2026, 6:19 PM

AI coding startup Cognition reportedly already in talks to raise at $40B valuation

Chip sees the signal like this: Cognition may be looking to raise another mega round just a few months after raising $1 billion at a $26 billion valuation.

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OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings raises $2B to bring AI to the enterprise
TechCrunchAug 12, 2026, 5:41 PM

OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings raises $2B to bring AI to the enterprise

Chip sees the signal like this: Thrive Holdings has raised $2 billion in new funding at a $12 billion valuation from investors like SoftBank, D1 Capital Partners, and Altimeter Capital.

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Lovable confirms new $13.3B valuation, raises another $400M
TechCrunchAug 12, 2026, 4:04 PM

Lovable confirms new $13.3B valuation, raises another $400M

Chip sees the signal like this: This new funding comes after Lovable hit $500 million in annualized run rate revenue in June, the startup told TechCrunch.

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How a $250 million acquisition collapsed into allegations of fraud and forged signatures
TechCrunchAug 12, 2026, 3:44 PM

How a $250 million acquisition collapsed into allegations of fraud and forged signatures

Chip sees the signal like this: Investors are still waiting for their share of the $250 million windfall, and VideoVerse co-founder Vinayak Shrivastav is now at the center of multiple legal...

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AI code-testing startup Blacksmith’s valuation jumps almost 10x in less than a year
TechCrunchAug 12, 2026, 11:00 AM

AI code-testing startup Blacksmith’s valuation jumps almost 10x in less than a year

Chip sees the signal like this: Blacksmith says revenue has grown more than tenfold over the past year.

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Independent bookstores in Europe receive suspicious orders for thousands of books, prompting fears they'll be destroyed to train AI — sellers believe acquisitions are part of AI tech companies’ push to get more data
Tom's HardwareAug 12, 2026, 10:00 AM

Independent bookstores in Europe receive suspicious orders for thousands of books, prompting fears they'll be destroyed to train AI — sellers believe acquisitions are part of AI tech companies’ push to get more data

Chip sees the signal like this: One independent book retailer in Galway, Ireland, received an online order for 5,000 books, which would be elating for many shop owners, especially at a time...

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OpenWALDO launches to build collaborative community for open-source AI
SiliconANGLEAug 11, 2026, 4:00 PM

OpenWALDO launches to build collaborative community for open-source AI

Chip sees the signal like this: OpenWALDO, a new open-source artificial intelligence project sponsored by Ctrl IQ Inc., launched today, led by Gregory Kutzer, the founder of Rocky Linux,...

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Nvidia teams up with financial giants to create $500 billion AI infrastructure funds — six investment firms to enable access to long-term funding at attractive rates
Tom's HardwareAug 11, 2026, 11:04 AM

Nvidia teams up with financial giants to create $500 billion AI infrastructure funds — six investment firms to enable access to long-term funding at attractive rates

Chip sees the signal like this: Nvidia late on Monday announced that it had signed memorandums of understanding with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR to...

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OpenAI reportedly completed a $7 billion employee tender offer
TechCrunchAug 11, 2026, 12:03 AM

OpenAI reportedly completed a $7 billion employee tender offer

Chip sees the signal like this: San Francisco's housing market is in trouble again.

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OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide
DataconomyAug 10, 2026, 10:16 AM

OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide

Chip sees the signal like this: OpenAI has acquired NextSlide, a startup that developed tools for turning prompts, notes, documents and research into editable presentations. The company’s team...

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Embattled hedge fund Situational Awareness invests $400M in chip startup Source Foundry
TechCrunchAug 9, 2026, 8:35 PM

Embattled hedge fund Situational Awareness invests $400M in chip startup Source Foundry

Chip sees the signal like this: The AI-focused hedge fund is still making some big bets.

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Fortinet targets network security platform convergence to address AI-era complexity
SiliconANGLEAug 7, 2026, 4:41 PM

Fortinet targets network security platform convergence to address AI-era complexity

Chip sees the signal like this: In the rush to adopt AI, enterprise security architectures are diminishing, and the only appropriate response is a network security platform that incorporates...

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EU AI Act Article 50 transparency rules enter force
AI NewsAug 3, 2026, 4:09 PM

EU AI Act Article 50 transparency rules enter force

Chip sees the signal like this: Article 50 of the EU AI Act has entered into force, setting transparency obligations for AI providers and deployers operating across the bloc. Enterprises...

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Sticker shock has execs rethinking this whole AI thing
The RegisterJul 13, 2026, 2:16 PM

Sticker shock has execs rethinking this whole AI thing

Chip sees the signal like this: KETTLE Like a drug dealer who's hooked you and raised their prices, business leaders are simply shocked to learn the AI their organizations are becoming...

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Tool promises to make lazy academics' AI-written papers sound more human
The RegisterJul 8, 2026, 3:55 PM

Tool promises to make lazy academics' AI-written papers sound more human

Chip sees the signal like this: It's bad enough that you used AI to write a research paper instead of composing it yourself. Now, you can take the extra step to hide the evidence of your...

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Barret Zoph is out at OpenAI again after just five months
The VergeJun 19, 2026, 4:49 AM

Barret Zoph is out at OpenAI again after just five months

Chip sees the signal like this: Five months after returning to OpenAI, Barret Zoph - the company's head of enterprise AI sales - has departed, The Verge has learned. Zoph returned to OpenAI in...

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Source: Elastic agrees to buy CRV-backed DeductiveAI for up to $85M
TechCrunchJun 19, 2026, 12:51 AM

Source: Elastic agrees to buy CRV-backed DeductiveAI for up to $85M

Chip sees the signal like this: DeductiveAI, a startup that uses AI to catch and resolve bugs in software, was founded just three years ago.

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NEA’s Tiffany Luck says enterprises are still figuring out their AI ROI
TechCrunchJun 17, 2026, 8:17 PM

NEA’s Tiffany Luck says enterprises are still figuring out their AI ROI

Chip sees the signal like this: Tokenmaxxing was the hottest trend in Silicon Valley earlier this year, with CEOs encouraging employees to push AI usage as far as it would go. Then the bill...

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