FUNDRAISING ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Julius AI raises $10M and launches Postgres data connectors to let anyone query company data in plain English

GUEST INTERVIEWS

• Chroma co-founder Anton Troynikov on LLM psychosis: AI models are creating a new kind of crazy through sycophancy and memory features
• Shortcut launches as an AI Excel agent that beats Goldman and McKinsey first-year analysts 89% of the time

NEWS

• Astronomer turns CEO affair scandal into marketing gold with Gwyneth Paltrow and Ryan Reynolds' agency
• Tea app data breach exposes 72,000 images including government IDs — and the PR response made it worse
• Armada launches Leviathan, a megawatt-scale liquid-cooled compute system deployable at remote energy sites

COMMENTARY

• Mark Cuban wants to ban AI ads — hosts argue it would lock best AI tools behind paywalls for lower-income users
• Trump wins the tariff brawl: EU accepts 15% tariff and agrees to buy $750B in US energy with nothing in return