CATL bets on RoboParty: China's battery giant enters the humanoid race sideways
The world's largest battery maker takes a stake in a HIT-founded open-source humanoid startup. Not a VC move - an integration play.
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Nvidia's $32B mark on SSI - the circular finance chart adds another node
Nvidia takes a stake in Safe Superintelligence at a $32B valuation. The reason is known: the GPU supplier in the capital of the labs that buy its GPUs. It becomes a portfolio.
Jul 28, 2026 at 21:00 9 10
"AI communism": Kimi K3 shakes the thesis of the model monopoly on Wall Street
On the TechCrunch Equity podcast, American VCs refer to the Kimi K3 effect on valuations as "AI communism." The real signal: the first time a Chinese open-weight model forces American CFOs to recalculate their P&L.
Jul 24, 2026 at 21:00 5 8
Samsung eyes $1.1B into Mistral: the strategic-corporate leg of the open-model economics story
Samsung is reportedly close to investing $1.1 billion in Mistral. This is no longer a VC thesis: it's an OEM buying a foothold on the open frontier.
Jul 22, 2026 at 12:41 14 8
Neil Rimer: la richesse de l'IA « doit être redistribuée » - un cofondateur d'Index nomme la tension
Index Ventures co-founder Neil Rimer tells TechCrunch the historic wealth AI is generating in Silicon Valley will have to be redistributed - voluntarily or involuntarily. A rare frank note from inside the venture class.
Jul 18, 2026 at 11:12 29 13
The AI context gap: enterprise AI's real problem isn't retrieval, it's trust
VentureBeat raises the question that has been lingering in CIOs' minds: enterprise AI projects fail less on the technical aspects (retrieval, embedding, RAG) than on the trust in what they return—and on the governance of their sources.
Jul 16, 2026 at 21:44 26 8
Elevation Capital raises $500M to bet on Indian AI startups
Indian VC Elevation Capital launches a $500M fund focused on seed and Series A AI startups - the "AI-native > SaaS + wrapper" thesis becomes actionable capital-side in the domestic market.
Jul 14, 2026 at 15:44 11 8
The quantum capital wave: Oratomic at $300M, Singapore launches QAI Ventures
Quantum has yet to have its "ChatGPT moment," but capital is already flowing in: Arch and Khosla are leading a $300M Series A round for Oratomic, and Singapore is formalizing its first QAI cohort. Two signals, one thesis.
Jul 11, 2026 at 17:19 3 8