FUNDRAISING ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Anthony Pompliano launches $250M SPAC targeting profitable fintech companies, unveils AI wealth platform Sylvia

GUEST INTERVIEWS

• Erik Prince on Blackwater's origins, the future of PMCs, and why Europe still isn't serious about defense
• OpenAI's Nikunj Handa on the Responses API's new MCP support and why remote MCP servers are a breakthrough for agentic apps
• David Senra on Jony Ive's obsessive design philosophy and what OpenAI is really buying for $6.5B
• Scott Wu on Cognition's 30% week-over-week growth and how the AI coding agent market is splitting into two
• Joe Wiesenthal on tariffs, the Moody's downgrade, rising global bond yields, and why the AGI narrative feels like a business story now

NEWS

• OpenAI acquires Jony Ive's hardware startup IO for $6.5B to build AI-first devices
• Google I/O reactions: VO3 video generation impresses but product accessibility remains a major obstacle
• US formally accepts Qatar's luxury 747 jet — but it may not have been a gift after all

COMMENTARY

• Europe's tech gap: 107 unicorns worth $330B vs. US's 90 worth $2.35T