Tech & AI

VC's $300 Billion Quarter Is a Bet on the Inference Decade

Global VC hit $300 billion in Q1 2026, with AI companies capturing $242 billion, 80% of the total. Four mega-rounds from OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Waymo took $188 billion. The Futurist reads the curve and finds a rotation from bits to atoms, not a bubble.