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FUNDRAISING ANNOUNCEMENTS

  • Varda Space Industries raises $187M Series C to scale space-manufactured pharmaceuticals and biologics lab
  • Moment raises $36M Series B led by Index Ventures to modernize fixed income trading infrastructure, lands LPL Financial partnership
  • ZeroEntropy raises $4.1M seed to build precision RAG retrieval tools and launches new reranker model to cut AI hallucinations

GUEST INTERVIEWS

  • Meta researcher's RCT finds AI tools actually slowed experienced open-source developers — a surprising result that challenges the self-recursion thesis
  • Consensus reaches 5M users with AI-powered academic search engine that out-indexes Google Scholar on peer-reviewed research
  • Biotech investor Elliot Hershberg on AI's growing role in drug discovery and the century of biology thesis
  • Ramp launches first AI agent for corporate expense management, automating approvals using calendar and email context

NEWS

  • Grok 4 launches at the AI frontier, posting record benchmark scores with equal pre- and post-training compute spend
  • OpenAI plans Chrome competitor browser as Perplexity's Comet and The Browser Company's Dia heat up browser wars