Injunctions, restraining orders, delays. The Equity Podcast crew breaks down how Apple’s trade secret lawsuit could throw a wrench in OpenAI’s hardware ambitions.
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The market has a need for applied AI experience…and that’s an opportunity for generalists to join the limited ranks of those experts and prosper. That’s one...
Ode with Anthropic, a joint venture launched by the AI company and other investors, is betting a handful of engineers can do the work of an...
Down rounds carry a stigma, but they’re not always the end of a startup’s story. Charles Hudson of Precursor Ventures shares an example of a company...
Do you fit into one of the trendiest founder archetypes? Fundraising has always been competitive, but today’s market is especially tough for first-time founders. In the...
Nobody has to care: that’s the biggest challenge facing many startups. Not every startup that struggles for funding is a bad business. Sometimes the metrics are...
For thousands of years, hair braiding has been a manual task, taking up to 12 hours at a stretch, as a stylist weaves patterns into a...
While OpenAI is busy building its own chips, Groq, SpaceX, and even companies that used to make shoes are racing to lease out compute. The Equity...
Is AI venture capital in a bubble, or are we just in the steepest growth curve anyone’s ever seen? At StrictlyVC Los Angeles 2026, TechCrunch’s Editor-in-Chief...