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    AI Tokens for Equity: The Platform Lock-In Risk for Startups

    OpenAI’s alleged offer of free tokens to Y Combinator founders in exchange for equity, described by Jason Calacanis on This Week in Startups in June 2026, has become a flashpoint in the larger fight over who controls the next software platform. The claim remains Calacanis’s characterization, not...
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