The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Waymo Leads An AI-Driven Lineup Of Large Financings - Crunchbase News
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OpenAI raises $3bn from retail investors as part of record funding haul - Financial Times
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OpenAI Closes Silicon Valley’s Largest-Ever Funding Round - WSJ
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Global VC investment hit a record $297B in Q1 2026, up 150% YoY, with AI startups capturing 81% of the funding; just four companies raised 64% of the total (Gené Teare/Crunchbase News)
Gené Teare / Crunchbase News : Global VC investment hit a record $297B in Q1 2026, up 150% YoY, with AI startups capturing 81% of the funding; just four companies raised 64% of the total — The first quarter of 2026 was unlike any other for venture investment, driven by unprecedented spending on AI compute and frontier labs.
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OpenAI's $122 Billion Raise Validates the Decentralized AI Case - blockhead.co
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