Peter Thiel's hedge fund completely dumps its $100 million Nvidia stake amid growing investor skepticism about AI market valuations, joining Michael Burry and SoftBank in bearish bets as hedge fund sentiment splits evenly on whether AI companies can prove profitable.
Sakana AI shatters Japanese startup records by achieving a massive $2.6 billion valuation, officially becoming Japan's most valuable unicorn company and cementing its position as the nation's largest unlisted technology startup following its latest funding round worth approximately 400 billion yen.
Alembic Technologies secures $145M Series B funding with valuation skyrocketing 16-fold as the startup builds an Nvidia Blackwell GPU-powered supercomputer to deliver enterprise causal AI that understands cause-and-effect relationships for regulated industries.
AI companies face a massive financial crisis as 95% report zero return on investment while monthly AI spending surges 36% to $85,521, but new caching technology from Tensormesh promises dramatic 5-10× cost reductions by eliminating redundant GPU computations that currently waste billions in resources.
Stockholm-based AI coding startup Lovable surges to nearly 8 million users and attracts Fortune 500 companies despite experiencing a 40% traffic drop since September, as the one-year-old company seeks a massive $5 billion valuation after previously raising $228 million.
Israeli AI startup Wonderful secures $100 million Series A funding to expand its customer service agents that resolve 80% of daily requests across voice, chat, and email, with plans to enter Germany, Austria, and Nordic markets in 2025.
SoftBank sells its entire $5.8 billion Nvidia stake to fund a massive $30 billion investment in OpenAI and participate in a $1 trillion AI manufacturing hub in Arizona, sending Nvidia shares down 3% as markets question founder Masayoshi Son's bold bet on artificial intelligence over chip manufacturing.
Google Cloud unveils enhanced Vertex AI Agent Builder with configurable context layers, Go language support, and self-healing plugins as major companies like PayPal, Color Health, and Geotab deploy production AI agents for payment processing, healthcare screening, and enterprise automation.
Four AI consulting startups collectively raise over $300 million to revolutionize traditional business advisory services through automated data analysis, with PromptQL securing $136 million to create custom AI analysts from company data while competitors target Fortune 500 decision intelligence and accelerated market research.
Tesla shareholders overwhelmingly approve Elon Musk's unprecedented $1 trillion compensation package tied to achieving an $8.5 trillion market cap, 20 million vehicle deliveries, and deploying 1 million robotaxis, boosting his ownership stake from 13% to 25%.