FUNDRAISING ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Vercel raises $300M primary and $300M secondary at $9.3B valuation, bets on AI cloud and agentic SDK
• Mercor raises $350M Series C at $10B valuation, paying out $1.5M/day to marketplace experts

GUEST INTERVIEWS

• Star Cloud founder defends space-based GPU compute ahead of first H100 satellite launch
• Justin Murphy on independent scholarship, tech-capital acceleration, and why crypto is the antidote
• Darren Rovell on the $3M Babe Ruth card loss and the state of the sports memorabilia market

NEWS

• Suno nearly quadruples ARR to $150M, sparking debate on AI music's long-term model
• Travis Kelce joins Jana Partners in $200M activist stake targeting Six Flags

COMMENTARY

• Tae Kim argues AI is underhyped; hosts debate dot-com bubble parallels and console war end
• Stock market and job openings diverge since ChatGPT launch; Amazon targets 30,000 layoffs