Safe Superintelligence on BriefTechNews.comhttps://brief-tech-news.com/tags/safe-superintelligence/Recent content in Safe Superintelligence on BriefTechNews.comHugoenCopyright &copy;2021 <br> Designed &amp; Developed by [Gethugothemes](https://gethugothemes.com/)Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:30:54 +0000One deal is half the software M&A market, and pre-revenue AI is worth $640M per employeehttps://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-31-founders/Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:30:54 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-31-founders/Kroll&rsquo;s mid-2026 data shows software deal volume tracking toward 2,672 transactions, but SpaceX&rsquo;s $60B Cursor purchase accounts for half the annualized $240B in deal value. Excluding it, dollars are near a decade low. The Rule of 40 no longer predicts multiples: engineering and HCM software both hit 46% but trade at 5.2x versus 3.0x. Meanwhile, pre-revenue AI valuations crossed surreal thresholds, including humans&amp; at $4.48B three months post-founding. Slack shipped team-scale Skill Sets, OpenAI quietly split ChatGPT Work into cloud and local products, and short-drama apps now drive 38% of entertainment downloads with 5.5% paid conversion in 35 days. Engineers evaluating vertical SaaS clones got a sobering data point: the rebuild is trivial, the sales motion is the moat.