FUNDRAISING ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Promptfoo raises $18.4M Series A from Insight Partners and a16z to secure AI applications at the enterprise layer
• OffDeal raises $12M to build the first AI-native investment bank for small business M&A

GUEST INTERVIEWS

• Ryan Petersen: Flexport sold revived Convoy freight platform to DAT for a reported $250M after buying it out of bankruptcy for far less
• Outdoor Voices founder Ty Haney returns as CEO five years after ouster, integrates TYB loyalty platform at launch
• Spindl acquired by Coinbase launches on-chain advertising inside Base's new social app
• Aaron Tan's robotic laundry-folding lamp went viral — here's what's real and what's rendered

NEWS

• Human teenagers outscored Google DeepMind and OpenAI at the International Math Olympiad — but probably for the last time
• New iPhone spotted in the wild with redesigned camera module; Apple foldable confirmed for 2026 at $2,000+
• GPT-5 reportedly dropping next week with 1M token context window and dynamic reasoning

COMMENTARY

• TBPN launches the Metis List, ranking the world's top 100 AI researchers