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FUNDRAISING ANNOUNCEMENTS

  • Stord raises $200M Series E as tariff chaos drives brands to outsource fulfillment to its cloud supply chain platform

GUEST INTERVIEWS

  • Anduril COO Matt Grimm on hiring veterans and launching a Memorial Day swag drop for the Murphy Foundation
  • OpenAI CPO Kevin Weil on Codex, GPT-5, sycophancy postmortem, and why personalization is the next frontier
  • Boom Supersonic's Blake Scholl on breaking the sound barrier twice and a bipartisan bill that could end the 1973 supersonic flight ban
  • Tim Fist on the Nvidia-China H20 chip saga, Middle East AI deals, and why Washington is dangerously behind on AI
  • Substack CEO Chris Best on crossing 5 million paid subscriptions and building a network that doesn't depend on other platforms

NEWS

  • OpenAI launches Codex, a cloud-based software engineering agent that can run parallel tasks and submit PRs autonomously
  • Meta delays Llama 4 Behemoth as 11 of 14 researchers leave and internal performance disappoints
  • Apple blocks Epic Games' Fortnite App Store submission, setting up potential new lawsuit over approval process

COMMENTARY

  • TBPN timeline: CRISPR saves a baby, worm-inspired robots, Google PM culture, and public.com backtests venture portfolios vs S&P