FUNDRAISING ANNOUNCEMENTS

• DRA raises $10.7M and lands Siemens partnership to automate manufacturing work instructions
• Fal raises $125M Series C and crosses $100M ARR on AI-generated media platform
• Tiny Fish raises $47M to turn the entire internet into a structured database for enterprise web agents

GUEST INTERVIEWS

• Crusoe acquires stealth AI inference startup Atapar to dominate GPU memory optimization
• Julie Zhuo on building Sundial — the 'Cursor for data analysis' — and lessons from Meta's data-driven culture
• Skipless Ventures opens Cohort 3 applications, positioning El Segundo as the new hard-tech hub
• Gabe Whaley launches MSCHF's Applied Mischief agency — treating global brands as cultural raw material
• David Senra in person: lessons from Joe Lamont's $25B ESW empire and the power of silence

COMMENTARY

• Google publishes Gemini inference energy data to counter AI environmental backlash
• Latin America's drug cartels are diversifying and booming — the FT's deep read
• Alpha School expands to New York backed by a billionaire ambassador — and Joe Lamont's lore runs deep
• AI productivity gains not showing up in economic data — a heated debate on the timeline