<p id="speakable-summary" class="has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph">AI companies have been hemorrhaging talent the past few weeks. Half of xAI’s founding team has left the company — some on their own, others through “restructuring” — while OpenAI is facing its own shakeups, from the <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/11/openai-disbands-mission-alignment-team-which-focused-on-safe-and-trustworthy-ai-development/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">disbanding of its mission alignment team</a> to the firing of a policy exec who opposed its “adult mode” feature. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">On this episode of TechCrunch’s <a href="https://techcrunch.com/podcasts/equity/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Equity</a> podcast, hosts Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Sean O’Kane dig into the week’s biggest deals and departures, from billion-dollar bets on fusion and robotics to the tech exodus reshaping AI companies. </p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Listen to the full episode to hear about: </p>
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<li class="wp-block-list-item">Why humanoid robot startups are <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/11/humanoid-robot-startup-apptronik-has-now-raised-935m-at-a-5b-valuation/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">raising nearly $1 billion</a> and partnering with Google DeepMind </li>
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<li class="wp-block-list-item">Whether fusion power startup Inertia Enterprises can actually deliver on its 2030 timeline, and <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/11/twilio-co-founders-fusion-power-startup-raises-450m-from-bessemer-and-alphabets-gv/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">why investors keep betting millions</a> </li>
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<li class="wp-block-list-item">What the Epstein files reveal about <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/vc-masha-bucher-epstein-associate-and-day-one-founder-explains-herself/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Silicon Valley dealmaking</a>, particularly <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/06/prince-andrew-advisor-pitched-jeffrey-epstein-on-investing-in-ev-startups-like-lucid-motors/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">during the EV boom</a> </li>
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<li class="wp-block-list-item">Why AI Super Bowl ads <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/08/super-bowl-60-ai-ads-svedka-anthropic-brands-commercials/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">might not be landing</a> outside Silicon Valley </li>
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