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FUNDRAISING ANNOUNCEMENTS

  • You.com raises $100M at $1.5B valuation: Richard Socher on pivoting from consumer search to enterprise AI infrastructure
  • HappyRobot raises $44M Series B to automate supply chain phone calls and freight operations with AI
  • Exa raises $85M Series B led by Peter Fenton to build search infrastructure for AI applications
  • Orchard Robotics raises $22M Series A to bring precision AI vision to fruit farming

GUEST INTERVIEWS

  • Microsoft CPO Aparna Chennapragada on AI at work: 100M Copilot users, reasoning models shifting enterprise behavior

NEWS

  • Google wins antitrust war: stock soars 7% as court blocks Chrome divestiture and allows Apple payments
  • Nestlé fires CEO Laurent Freixe after investigation into romantic relationship with direct subordinate
  • Polymarket gets CFTC green light to operate in the United States
  • StreamEast, the world's largest illegal sports streaming platform, shut down in federal sting
  • Breaking: Apple strikes deal with Google to test Gemini-powered Siri, after Anthropic demanded $1.5B/year

COMMENTARY

  • US v. Google timeline whiteboard breakdown: from 2002 Safari deal to yesterday's verdict
  • Ben Thompson's take: Google's strategy of sharing monopoly profits made its antitrust remedy too costly to undo
  • TBPN city tier list: US cities dominate, European capitals get dunked on