GUEST INTERVIEWS

• Garry Tan: 95% of YC W25 code is LLM-generated — vibe coding skeptics are 'coping'
• Augustus Doricko: Rain Maker exiting stealth mode with weather modification progress across western US and Middle East

NEWS

• Discord files for IPO after building a $15B gaming-to-community platform
• Epirus raises $250M to scale directed-energy counter-drone system Leonidas
• Flock Safety raising at $7.5B valuation led by Andreessen Horowitz

COMMENTARY

• DTC brand era postmortem: the endless labyrinth of ad channels that replaced the middleman
• Anthropic's 2027 AGI prediction and the energy bottleneck to post-industrial civilization