FUNDRAISING ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Paraform raises $20M Series A led by Felicis to connect companies with specialist recruiters as AI talent wars intensify

GUEST INTERVIEWS

• Deedy Das on the Anthology Fund, competing with AI labs, and why missionaries beat mercenaries in venture
• Emily Sundberg on building Feed Me to 60K subscribers and how independent media is reshaping journalism
• Mert Mumtaz on tokenized private shares: Republic's mirrored assets, Robinhood's chain, and what Erebor means for crypto
• Zak Kukoff on the Big Beautiful Bill: storm grounds members, every House vote counts before July 4th deadline
• Amit Jain on Luma AI's multimodal models serving tens of millions and transforming Hollywood and advertising

NEWS

• Erebor: Peter Thiel, Palmer Luckey, and Joe Lonsdale launch crypto-friendly bank to replace SVB
• Microsoft scales back in-house AI chip plans as Maya chip slips a full year behind Nvidia
• Microsoft cuts 9,000 jobs in second wave of layoffs as tech giants flatten org charts

COMMENTARY

• Who is Soham Parekh? The engineer reportedly working at multiple YC startups simultaneously goes viral