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