FUNDRAISING ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Jai Malik launches Advanced Manufacturing Company of America to consolidate critical aerospace and defense suppliers
• Krea raises Series B with 20 million users — co-founder Víctor Perez on AI image generation adoption and the OpenAI image model breakthrough

GUEST INTERVIEWS

• Chroma co-founder Jeff Huber: long-context windows won't kill RAG — they'll finally prove why retrieval matters
• Foundation for American Innovation economist Samuel Hammond: tariff chaos risks derailing the AI race America can't afford to lose
• Sheel Mohnot on tariffs, Circle's IPO, and why early-stage VCs should keep deploying through the chaos
• Public co-founder Leif Abraham: millennials are buying the dip, retail investors cycling out of yield accounts into stocks at record pace

COMMENTARY

• Meta's Llama 4 launch sparks open-source debate — benchmark controversy and strategic rationale unpacked