FUNDRAISING ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Cognition AI closes $400M at $10.2B valuation — Scott Wu on Devin's 8-15x engineering speedups and the Windsurf integration
- Hello Patient raises Series A — building specialized voice AI for healthcare that generic platforms can't replicate
- TruckSmarter raises $16M and launches Dispatch to fix fragmented load sourcing for truck drivers
GUEST INTERVIEWS
- Avi Schiffmann defends Friend after Wired publishes 'I Hate My Friend' takedown
- Groq COO Sunny Madra on the White House AI dinner, the American AI stack, and the Saudi inference cluster
- Ramp economist Ara Kharazian: 45% of US businesses use AI (not the Census's 8%), and SF's 996 culture is real
- Warp launches 'Code Country' — adding $1M ARR every 7-8 days as agentic dev environment gains traction
- ElevenLabs hits $200M ARR and launches $100M tender offer at $6.6B valuation
NEWS
- Census AI adoption data goes viral — but the methodology is badly flawed
- OpenAI backs AI-animated feature film 'Critters' targeting Cannes 2026 debut
- Unitree Robotics files for IPO at $7B valuation on $140M annual revenue
- SpaceX acquires EchoStar's spectrum licenses for $17B, creating a de facto public SpaceX proxy