'Disrupted or dead': AI is crushing a generation of startups built before ChatGPT
2026-06-01 · Tech
The AI gold rush has a body count: hundreds of startups that existed before ChatGPT are now roadkill as $250+ billion gets funneled to OpenAI and Anthropic instead. Turns out 'move fast and break things' hits different when the thing being broken is your entire company. Welcome to the AI economy, where the disrupted become the disrupted.