AI’s hard hat phase: Tie models to P&L or get left behind in 2026

December 24, 2025

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Tie models to P&L or get left behind in 2026

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For a while, it was enough to say you had an AI strategy; cheap capital and FOMO covered a lot of sins. Now, investors are asking not just how smart the tech is, but when it will pay off. The problem is rarely the models, but the gap between AI proje...

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AI’s hard hat phase: Tie models to P&L or get left behind in 2026

Flapping Airplanes raises $1B at $6B from Index and Lux to make every AI chip work harder

Otter.ai secures $320M from General Catalyst to become enterprises’ voice system of record

Town raises $108M at $1B valuation as AI assistants learn to work across teams

6 Southern Europe startups to watch, according to top VCs

Europe can’t win the AI spending race. It should fund what comes next

Cambridge startups hit £9.1B mark as American venture funds power new unicorn cohort

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