Julie Bort

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General Catalyst posted VC rage bait and it worked, especially on a16z - TechCrunch

Technology May 17, 2026

One of the most entertaining moments in VC this week was a piece of rage-bait marketing from General Catalyst. In a now-viral post on X that parodies the old Mac vs. PC commercials, the venture firmοΏ½...

Cerebras IPO makes billions for Benchmark but VC Eric Vishria almost didn't take the meeting - TechCrunch

Business May 15, 2026

The Cerebras Systems IPO was a smash hit on Thursday, generating billions for itself, its founders, and its major investors.Β  Among the big winners is major shareholder Benchmark, which owns 9.5% of...

Anduril raises $5B, doubles valuation to $61B - TechCrunch

Business May 14, 2026

Another year, another massive influx of capital for Anduril: The funding round that was rumored to be in process in March has officially closed. Anduril has raised a $5 billion Series H round at a $6οΏ½...

Cloudflare says AI made 1,100 jobs obsolete, even as revenue hit a record high - TechCrunch

Business May 9, 2026

Cloudflare on Thursday joined a growing list of tech companies β€” including Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon β€” that have reported increased revenue alongside massive layoffs, attributing both trends to ...

Satya Nadella says he’s ready to β€˜exploit’ the new OpenAI deal - TechCrunch

Business May 1, 2026

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was asked point-blank by a Wall Street analyst on Wednesday how its revised OpenAI partnership would impact Microsoft’s financials. He said that the new agreement was a ...

Google expands Pentagon’s access to its AI after Anthropic’s refusal - TechCrunch

Business April 30, 2026

Google has granted the U.S. Department of Defense access to its AI for classified networks, essentially allowing all lawful uses, according to multiple news reports. This deal follows Anthropic’s p...

Amazon is already offering new OpenAI products on AWS - TechCrunch

Business April 29, 2026

Almost as soon as OpenAI announced that its major investor and cloud partner, Microsoft, no longer has exclusive rights to any of its products, Amazon started gloating. After the revised OpenAI/MicrοΏ½...

OpenAI ends Microsoft legal peril over its $50B Amazon deal - TechCrunch

Business April 28, 2026

On Monday, Microsoft and OpenAI announced that they have, once again, renegotiated the deal binding the two companies. Despite some opinions on X that frame it as a victory for the ChatGPT maker overοΏ½...

Google Cloud launches two new AI chips to compete with Nvidia - TechCrunch

Business April 23, 2026

Google Cloud on Wednesday announced that its eighth generation of custom-built AI chips, or tensor processing units (TPUs), will be split in two. One chip, named the TPU 8t, will be geared for model οΏ½...

Google makes an interesting choice with its new agent-building tool for enterprises - TechCrunch

Business April 23, 2026

Google CEO Sundar Pichai opened the Google Cloud Next conference on Wednesday with a video in which he announced one of the company’s biggest new products: Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. GoogleοΏ½...