thenextweb

2025-09-18

VCs are growing wary of ‘AI-washing’ – but real innovation is still winning investors


Venture capital investment surged to a 10-quarter high of €108.3bn in Q1 2025, fuelled by artificial intelligence, which accounted for over  €44.6bn raised. In recent years, AI has felt like a money-printing machine. Investors, eager to avoid missing out on the next big thing, were quick to back almost any startup that mentioned AI in their pitch deck. The idea didn’t need to be particularly well-implemented or useful. In some cases, even the illusion of innovation was enough to earn a unicorn valuation. But investors are now wising up to AI-washin [...]

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venturebeat

2025-10-22

Kai-Fu Lee's brutal assessment: America is already losing the AI hardware war to China

China is on track to dominate consumer artificial intelligence applications and robotics manufacturing within years, but the United States will maintain its substantial lead in enterprise AI adoption [...]

Match Score: 96.28

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2025-03-31

The Growing Number of Tech Companies Getting Cancelled for AI Washing

In 2024, 15 AI technology companies were hit by regulators for exaggerating their products’ capabilities, and that number has more than doubled from 2023. AI-related filings are on the rise and te [...]

Match Score: 58.89

Destination

2025-02-28

Engadget Podcast: iPhone 16e review and Amazon's AI-powered Alexa+

The keyword for the iPhone 16e seems to be "compromise." In this episode, Devindra chats with Cherlynn about her iPhone 16e review and try to figure out who this phone is actually for. Also, [...]

Match Score: 38.71

venturebeat

2025-11-24

How to avoid becoming an “AI-first” company with zero real AI usage

Remember the first time you heard your company was going AI-first?Maybe it came through an all-hands that felt different from the others. The CEO said, “By Q3, every team should have integrated AI i [...]

Match Score: 36.53

thenextweb

2025-09-19

Opinion: Europe’s VCs must embrace risk — or resign the AI era to US control

Europe’s AI startups are losing ground to the US — and their own investors are to blame. Only 5% of global venture capital is raised in the EU, according to the European Commission. The US, by con [...]

Match Score: 34.80

thenextweb

2025-02-17

How VCs are killing climate tech — and how they can save it

Sustainability tech has been all the buzz in the last few years. Investors are hunting promising ESG businesses, governments are pushing ambitious legislation, and companies are getting on board to ad [...]

Match Score: 33.99

Destination

2025-09-25

Trump signs executive order saying his TikTok deal is legal

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order finalizing some of the terms of a deal to bring TikTok's US business under American control. The new TikTok entity will be owned by a group of [...]

Match Score: 32.84

venturebeat

2025-11-13

Upwork study shows AI agents excel with human partners but fail independently

Artificial intelligence agents powered by the world's most advanced language models routinely fail to complete even straightforward professional tasks on their own, according to groundbreaking re [...]

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2024-12-31

The Morning After: A microwave with a 27-inch touchscreen

We’re wrapping up 2024, so why not do it with some frivolous CES announcements? Like this premium (it has to be premium!) microwave from LG, with a touchscreen bigger than your iPad. I’m not sure [...]

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