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458 storiesNscale's IPO tests Wall Street's taste for concentrated AI bets
Nscale, a British neocloud whose revenue relies heavily on Microsoft and Anthropic, is going public in an IPO that will test investors' appetite for customer-concentrated AI infrastructure stocks.
Oura's as much as $2.2B IPO mostly pays out existing shareholders
Oura is seeking as much as $2.2 billion in its IPO, but almost two-thirds of the shares being sold belong to existing shareholders, not the company.
Flock Safety offers buyouts as backlash over its tech grows
Flock Safety, facing backlash over its license-plate-recognition technology, offered its most generous-ever buyout package to its 1,500-person workforce, which Wired reports could otherwise face layoffs.
SpaceX backer Valor Equity gives $8.5B in shares to its own investors
Valor Equity Partners, an early SpaceX backer, has given about 8.5% of its SpaceX holdings — worth roughly $8.5 billion, per Bloomberg — directly to its limited partners instead of cashing out.
Cap table platform Pulley is shutting down, referring customers to Carta
Pulley, a cap table management startup that raised over $50 million, is shutting down and has partnered with rival Carta to take over its customers.
Automattic execs signed $8.15M severance deals amid ouster
Automattic's interim CEO and legal chief signed each other's severance agreements — together worth $8.15 million — during the roughly 33-hour window when CEO Matt Mullenweg was on leave.
Amazon raises minimum pay by $1/hour for US operations workers
Amazon is raising minimum pay to $20 an hour and average pay to nearly $24 for U.S. operations workers, a $1-an-hour increase costing over $1.5 billion.
Insight Partners' Deven Parekh explains why the firm won't bet the fund on OpenAI or Anthropic
Deven Parekh, who has co-run Insight Partners for 26 years, told TechCrunch the $90 billion firm is staying diversified even as rivals put 35-40% of entire funds into OpenAI or Anthropic.
Larry Ellison cancels planned sale of around $7.5 billion of Oracle stock
Oracle co-founder and executive chairman Larry Ellison has canceled a planned sale of 50 million Oracle shares worth around $7.5 billion, the company announced Saturday.
Sam Altman says an OpenAI IPO in 2026 would be 'ill-advised'
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the company has filed confidentially for an IPO but will not go public this year, calling a 2026 listing "ill-advised" given ongoing AI safety concerns.
Google inks record rice-methane carbon credit deal with Mitti Labs
Google has agreed to buy 1 million carbon credits from Indian climate-tech startup Mitti Labs through 2030, in the largest publicly announced rice-methane carbon credit deal to date.
New iPhones arrive, so Apple raises prices on older models
Apple raised prices on its existing iPhone models by $100 as it unveiled the iPhone 18 and its first foldable, the iPhone Duo.
AI spending per employee slipped at top firms in August
AI adoption growth nearly stalled in August, according to Ramp data showing spend per employee fell at the top 1% of AI-using firms.
Autonomy adds gas cars to save its car-subscription business
Autonomy, a car-subscription startup, is adding gas-powered Ford vehicles to its fleet for the first time after its EV-only bet nearly sank the company.
Hacker steals about $340M from crypto network, then returns most of it
A hacker stole about $340 million in bitcoin from the Liquid Network settlement exchange, one of the largest known crypto thefts this year, before returning roughly 3,400 of the 4,000 stolen bitcoins.
Oura files to go public as smart-ring rivals crowd in
Oura officially filed to go public on September 3, even as rivals including Ultrahuman, Circular, RingConn, Samsung, and Dreame race to challenge its dominance of the smart ring market with new features.
Oura files to go public
Smart ring maker Oura filed for an IPO, reporting revenue growth from $697 million to $1.2 billion year-over-year, as it also faces a lawsuit over sleep-tracking accuracy.
Startup ARR is less secure than ever, research shows
New research from Madrona shows enterprises are reevaluating AI vendors every six months or faster, making today's fast-growing startup revenue far less durable than in the SaaS era.
Uber is laying off about 10% of staff, or about 3,300 people
Uber is laying off about 3,300 people, roughly 10% of its global headcount, as part of a restructuring meant to cut management layers and redirect investment to ridesharing, delivery, and robotaxis.