FUNDRAISING ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Bryan Johnson raises $60M for Blueprint, betting longevity becomes a multi-trillion dollar market
• Shaun Maguire on Sequoia's new $950M funds, defense tech timing, and why VC isn't an asset class
• Board raises $15M and launches the first hybrid board game / video game console

GUEST INTERVIEWS

• Poland's economic miracle: from poorer than Jamaica to richer than Japan in 35 years
• Nathan Mintz on CX2's Spectrum Imperative: electromagnetic warfare is the new contested domain
• Substrate emerges from stealth with $100M to build America's first next-gen semiconductor foundry by 2028
• Adobe Firefly at MAX: third-party AI models, custom brand AI, and threading the Hollywood needle
• George Kurtz on CrowdStrike's NVIDIA partnership and the rise of autonomous AI malware

NEWS

• Whatnot hits $11.5B valuation as live shopping finally gains traction in America
• Trump signals openness to selling NVIDIA Blackwell chips to China as part of trade deal
• Bending Spoons acquires AOL from Yahoo, raising $2.8B in debt to do it

COMMENTARY

• 1X NEO home robot launches at $20K — teleoperated by US employees, not autonomous AI