FUNDRAISING ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Rivet Tax raises $5.1M seed to bring AI-powered context management to tax preparation
• David Tisch closes two new BoxGroup funds as NYC startup scene matures and AI acqui-hires accelerate

GUEST INTERVIEWS

• Kevin Rose on social media's death by AI bots, the future of personal software, and why CS degrees may be obsolete
• Jeff Yan on how Hyperliquid became the dominant on-chain perps venue with 11 people and zero VC funding
• Tomasz Tunguz: AI data center buildout now exceeds 1% of US GDP — echoing dot-com infrastructure boom
• Coinbase acquires Echo to build end-to-end on-chain capital markets from seed to token listing
• Chris Dixon on crypto's policy-driven rebound, stablecoin adoption, and the convergence of AI and crypto

NEWS

• Apple TV lands 5-year F1 deal at $140–160M/year, replacing ESPN in the US
• Meta cuts 600 jobs at AI Superintelligence Labs while protecting its highest-paid new hires
• Anthropic in talks with Google for a cloud compute deal worth high tens of billions