FUNDRAISING ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Josh Wolfe on Reflect Orbital, Basic Capital, the collapse of science funding, and his skepticism of humanoid robots

GUEST INTERVIEWS

• Varda's third capsule returns safely — Delian Asparouhov on Golden Dome, Venus Aerospace, and the space economy
• Alex Blania on Worldcoin's US launch: 12M verified users, racing to build proof-of-human before AGI makes the internet untrustworthy
• Jason Fried on bootstrapping vs. VC, the Airbnb 2.0 pivot, on-prem vs. cloud economics, and his philosophy on wealth
• Eugenia Kuyda on Replika's 12-year journey, the loneliness epidemic, and why AI companions may be humanity's best shot

NEWS

• Warren Buffett breaks silence on retirement: 'I didn't start getting old until I was about 90'
• Airbnb 2.0: Chesky bets on personal services marketplace to escape stagnant growth
• US scraps AI diffusion rule, opening chip sales to allies including Saudi Arabia, UAE, and India
• Apple partners with Synchron to enable iPhone control via brain implants
• Coinbase data breach: personal info of 1% of monthly users leaked via bribed overseas support agents