FUNDRAISING ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Rivet Industries wins $195M Army contract for next-gen AR soldier goggle, raises $90M total
• Augment raises $85M Series A to bring AI agents to the $10T logistics industry
• Baseten raises $150M to power AI inference for companies running custom fine-tuned models

GUEST INTERVIEWS

• Ramp CEO Eric Glyman calls in to confirm $1B ARR milestone: 'Job's not finished'
• Joe Weisenthal on a weak August jobs report: manufacturing down 78K, rate cuts now near-certain
• Scale AI interim CEO Jason Droege: two $100M+ businesses, monthly growth since Meta deal, and the trough of AI disillusionment in enterprises
• Helius CEO Mert Mumtaz breaks down Stripe and Paradigm's Tempo L1: legitimate move, but 'payments-only' claims won't hold up permissionless
• Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B in largest-ever copyright settlement over AI training on pirated books

NEWS

• Ramp crosses $1B in annual revenue
• Atlassian acquires The Browser Company for $610M in a bet on AI-era enterprise browsing
• The Free Press in talks to be acquired by CBS for $200M
• Trump's White House tech dinner: Apple and Meta each pledge $600B in US AI investment
• Tesla's board approves new pay package for Musk targeting $8.5T market cap and $1T in comp
• OpenAI signs $10B chip deal with Broadcom to mass-produce custom AI inference chips on TSMC 3nm
• Stripe and Paradigm launch Tempo, a new L1 blockchain focused on payments and stablecoins
• Sierra raises $350M from Green Oaks at $10B valuation
• Giorgio Armani passes away at 91, leaving behind a $2.6B fashion empire he built independently