FUNDRAISING ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Granola raises $43M Series B to build AI-powered team intelligence layer on top of meetings
• Joshua Browder raises $30M Fund 4 to back undiscovered, uncredentialed founders at pre-seed
• Anjney Midha on why he backed Mistral's $200M Series A, Sesame AI's companion hardware bet, and the post-training era

GUEST INTERVIEWS

• Eight Sleep launches Pod 5 with full microclimate temperature control and Andrew Huberman sleep partnership
• Erik Torenberg on joining a16z: the firm's internal debate on AI defensibility and why they should have been more aggressive
• Jen Kha on $43B raised for a16z, sovereign wealth demand, and why the megafund model works
• Martin Casado: AI market is expanding, not consolidating — open and closed source will both win big
• David Ulevitch on American Dynamism: AI will compress nuclear regulatory timelines and public safety is the most underrated opportunity
• Anish Acharya: AI app layer is real — top companies growing 0 to $80M ARR faster than anything seen before
• Marc Andreessen at a16z LP Day: the co-founder's view on where the firm and tech are heading

COMMENTARY

• OpenAI abandons for-profit conversion, keeps nonprofit board in control
• Open-source AI as geopolitical weapon: the case for and against American open models