FUNDRAISING ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Quilter raises $25M Series B from Index Ventures to automate circuit board design
• Base Power raises $1B Series C and opens its first Austin factory to scale home battery storage across Texas

GUEST INTERVIEWS

• Ramp's Karim Atiyeh on AP automation agents, the Jolt AI acquisition, and why AI adoption is harder than it looks
• Acquired's Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal on 10 years of business storytelling, going to 8 episodes a year, and the Google series
• 1Password launches secure agentic autofill with Browserbase so AI agents can access credentials without exposing them
• Crosby is using AI to democratize legal services for individuals and small businesses
• Clipboard Health's Zack Ganieany on performance-based hiring and why resumes are broken
• Origin is using AI to accelerate drug discovery by predicting molecular behavior
• Alex Shieh's anti-fraud AI startup turns 'snitching as a service' into a business model

COMMENTARY

• Sam Altman's OpenAI vision: trillion-dollar compute deals, affiliate revenue, and the path to financial self-sufficiency
• Are we in a GPU bubble? Doug O'Laughlin's case that this bull market has further to run — and who gets hurt when it ends