Mastodawn

GitHub's "star" economy is about as real as the Easter Bunny 🐰. Six million fake stars and a VC's dreamland where repos are judged like toddlers at a beauty pageant 👶. But hey, why worry when you can buy success for the price of a discount latte ☕?
https://awesomeagents.ai/news/github-fake-stars-investigation/ #GitHubStars #FakeSuccess #VCInvestment #BeautyPageant #LatteEconomy #HackerNews #ngated

Inside GitHub's Fake Star Economy

Six million fake stars, $0.06 per click, and a VC funding pipeline that treats GitHub popularity as proof of traction. We ran our own analysis on 20 repos and found the fingerprints.

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horsetail Oct 6, 2025

Wie lässt sich mit #ki Geld verdienen?

Meine Erwartung:
Erst wird sie mit Gratisangeboten und Dumpingpreisen schmackhaft gemacht. Dann werden immer mehr Aufgaben mit KI erledigt, Leute entlassen bzw. nicht mehr eingestellt.
Und dann ziehen die Preise an, und zwar sehr kräftig ...

#AIstartups #VCinvestment #AI #VC

tech news ᳇ eicker.news Oct 5, 2025

#AIstartups are dominating #VCinvestment, with #AI accounting for over half of all #VC money invested in 2025. This has led to a “bifurcated” market, where only AI startups and large firms are successfully raising funds. https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/04/if-youre-not-an-ai-startup-good-luck-raising-money-from-vcs/?eicker.news #tech #media #news

If you’re not an AI startup, good luck raising money from VCs | TechCrunch

PitchBook reports that VCs have poured $192.7 billion into the industry so far this year, out of a total $366.8 billion. In the most recent quarter, AI accounted for 62.7% of the money invested by U.S. VCs, and for 53.2% of money invested by global firms.

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