FUNDRAISING ANNOUNCEMENTS
GUEST INTERVIEWS
- ARC Prize's Mike Knoop: AI is idea-constrained, not compute-constrained — we need new breakthroughs
- Sequoia's David Cahn on the AI talent arms race: $100M signing bonuses, 'con-sized' teams, and the gentle singularity shift
- Cognition's Walden Yan on building Devin: black-boxing models, reward hacking, and AI-native org design
- Intercom's Eoghan McCabe on rebooting a 15-year-old SaaS company: AI reinvigoration, founder energy, and why turnarounds don't work
- Stripe's Jeff Weinstein on agentic commerce: virtual cards for AI buyers, Link as a payment wallet, and MCP-native docs
- Handshake's Garrett Lord on supplying PhD talent to frontier AI labs: 3x growth in a month as Scale AI's dominance fades
NEWS
- Meta in advanced talks to hire Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman, partially acquiring their $2B+ VC fund
- SpaceX Starship Ship 36 explodes during static fire test in Texas
- Los Angeles Lakers sold to Mark Walter for $10B, the richest deal in sports history
- Surge AI: The $1B+ bootstrapped data labeling giant bigger than Scale AI that nobody knew about
- Vibe coder sells 6-month-old app builder to Wix for $80M — six employees, zero outside funding
- Chamath Palihapitiya to launch new SPAC after 71% of 58,000 poll voters said 'no'