Julie Bort

Articles by Julie Bort

Databricks wanted to raise $1B, investors wanted $15B. It settled on $5B at a $190B valuation. - TechCrunch

Business August 14, 2026

There’s a funny kind of game that the latest of late-stage startups must play when raising money. They often have to sell more shares than they want or risk offending some of their existing VCs. Th...

Nvidia’s new $500B plan is risky but brilliant, especially for aging GPUs - TechCrunch

Business August 14, 2026

Nvidia announced this week that Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR were willing to commit up to $500 billion to build AI data centers. That eye-popping figure got a lotοΏ½...

Trump’s DOJ gains oversight of OpenAI’s green-card employee sponsorships - TechCrunch

Business August 6, 2026

The Justice Departments Civil Rights Division announced on Wednesday that OpenAI, and its once-subsidiary Statsig, signed a settlement that includes three years of oversight over the AI lab’s hiring...

After killer quarter, Palantir CEO Alex Karp calls AI industry β€˜Marxist’ - techcrunch.com

Business August 5, 2026

Palantir CEO Alex Karp on Monday once again warned that AI frontier labs are too untrustworthy for enterprises. The CEO, who famously studied philosophy and earned a PhD in social theory, implied inοΏ½...

Anthropic's Dario Amodei responds: doesn't oppose open-weight models, but fears Chinese AI - TechCrunch

Business July 29, 2026

Anthropic founder and CEO Dario Amodei responded on Monday afternoon to murmuring in the industry that his company somehow supports efforts by the U.S. government to ban open-weight Chinese models, oοΏ½...

Satya Nadella has issued a shocking warning to companies using AI - TechCrunch

Technology July 15, 2026

Of all the debates raging about the potential downsides of AI, there is one worry causing the most hand-wringing among AI enthusiasts in Silicon Valley. Their fear is that the giant AI labs that sellοΏ½...

US investors will soon get access to SK Hynix, another memory maker riding the AI boom - TechCrunch

Business July 8, 2026

South Korean memory chipmaker SK Hynix, rival to Samsung and U.S.-based Micron, is planning to sell nearly 17.8 million shares in a U.S. IPO, the company said on Monday. Should its shares sell well (οΏ½...

Amazon competitor Bookshop.org says Kobo eReader support will happen this year after all - TechCrunch

Technology July 7, 2026

If you’re looking for an e-reader that allows you to buy expensive bestsellers from your local independent bookshops, your research will inevitably point you to Rakuten’s Kobo eReader. But, as it ...

Jersey Mike’s IPO illustrates how bad the AI hype has become - TechCrunch

Business July 3, 2026

I can’t tell the exact tipping point from realistic excitement over a new technology, to hype, to aww-come-on but I’m pretty sure when a sandwich shop with Danny DeVito as its public face talks ab...

Trump Admin releases Anthropic Mythos to be used by more than 100 US companies, agencies - TechCrunch

Business June 28, 2026

Two weeks into the ban that caused Anthropic to pull its powerful cybersecurity-oriented models, Mythos 5 and Fable 5, from the market, the Trump administration is softening its stance. It is now alοΏ½...