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GUEST INTERVIEWS

  • Keith Rabois: OpenAI is winning the AI battle, Opendoor needs a new CEO and AI-native transformation
  • Alfred Lin on Sequoia's generalist approach, the Arc program, and why great companies can always go public
  • UCSF psychiatrist Dr. Keith Sakata has seen 12 AI-related hospitalizations — and warns of a feedback loop risk
  • Bessemer's Talia Goldberg: top AI companies reaching $100M ARR in 1.5 years vs. 6-7 years for prior cloud era
  • Upstart CEO Dave Girouard: triple-digit growth, but US consumer stress is at multi-year highs
  • Inworld AI launches consumer AI runtime after 4 years in stealth, backed by Nvidia, Xbox, Niantic, and Disney
  • Method Security: AI is helping attackers hit orders-of-magnitude scale, and DOD has deployed the company's offensive tools
  • Creator Zach Pogrob launches Share Aura, a fitness content tool with 20,000 waitlist signups on day one

NEWS

  • TBPN Metis List expands to 128 AI researchers: Noam Shazeer takes the top spot, Yann LeCun drops off

COMMENTARY

  • OpenAI's GPT-5 router sets the stage for agentic commerce and ad monetization