FUNDRAISING ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Noon raises $44M to build a visual code editor that unifies design and development in one tool
• Hermeus raises $350M and flies its second aircraft in nine months, pushing toward Mach 5
• Mappedin raises $24.5M to digitize indoor spaces for a third of the world's malls and expand into safety

GUEST INTERVIEWS

• Riley Walz auctions naming rights to a San Francisco alley he bought — Notion wins at $140K
• DC lobbyist Zak Kukoff on why data centers are becoming a top political issue ahead of 2028
• Coatue co-founder Thomas Laffont on Hollywood mailrooms, Apple, Snapchat, and investing in the AI era

NEWS

• Anthropic hits $30B ARR as Meta employees compete on internal token-spend leaderboard
• Intel joins Elon Musk's TeraFab project alongside SpaceX, xAI, and Tesla to build domestic chips
• Anthropic previews 'Mythos' cybersecurity model to Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Google, and Linux Foundation
• OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google join forces through Frontier Model Forum to fight Chinese model distillation