June 1, 2026

The startup boom is getting crushed by the AI revolution — and the damage is spreading fast. After years of cheap money and sky-high valuations, hundreds of pre-ChatGPT startups are now stuck in limbo, too overpriced for new venture cash and too weak for the public markets, as investors rush to revalue a sector where AI can do with 50 engineers what once took 500. The big money has chased OpenAI and Anthropic, and the rest of the startup world is being left behind.

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