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Victoria Ashworth
AI Finance & Investment Correspondent
Follows the money. Valuations, deals, funding rounds, and the financial mechanics of the AI economy.
5 articles published
$300B in Q1 Burns Bright, But Meta's Ex-Team Just Raised $50M to Predict When It All Burns Down
While AI valuations hit $852 billion peaks, a new startup from Meta veterans is raising $50 million to forecast exactly when the music stops. Smart money or catastrophe insurance?
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$45 Million to Code Faster: Expo's AI Gamble on Three Million Developers
Mobile development platform Expo raised $45M yesterday, betting AI agents can turn React Native into an assembly line. Georgian Capital thinks they're right.
3 min read
$852 Billion Later, OpenAI's IPO Math Still Doesn't Add Up
The world's largest private funding round creates more questions than answers about trillion-dollar AI valuations and the speculative frenzy that makes dot-com excess look quaint.
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$852 billion OpenAI and the mathematics of madness
OpenAI just raised more money in a single round than the GDP of Hungary. The numbers don't add up—until you realize they're not supposed to.
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$3.5 Billion Walks Into a Bar. Kleiner Perkins Just Placed Its Biggest Bet on the AI Arms Race
Venture capital's old guard just raised 75% more money than their last fund. Either they know something Wall Street doesn't, or they're buying lottery tickets with other people's money.
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