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FUNDRAISING ANNOUNCEMENTS

  • Legora raises $150M Series C — YC W24 company goes from seed to Series C in 18 months with AI legal workspace
  • Fireworks AI raises $250M at $4B valuation to power application-specific inference at Google-scale token volumes
  • MEM0 raises $24M to build portable memory infrastructure for AI agents across apps and LLMs

GUEST INTERVIEWS

  • Whatnot founder Grant LaFontaine on 80 min/day engagement, food's next frontier, and why live commerce isn't gambling
  • Former NSC official Chris McGuire on the US-China tech freeze, chip export controls, and the humanoid robot national security gap
  • Vanta's Christina Cacioppo on AI security adoption: 4 in 5 security leaders deploying AI agents to fight AI-powered attacks
  • Navan IPOs on Nasdaq: CTO Ilan Twig celebrates with 17 family members and a glass of champagne

NEWS

  • Meta posts record revenue but warns of surging AI CapEx, stock drops 7%
  • OpenAI lays groundwork for IPO targeting up to $1T valuation, possible 2027 listing
  • Mastercard set to acquire crypto infrastructure startup Zero Hash for nearly $2B

COMMENTARY

  • Alphabet's $100B quarter and the decade-long bet on diversification that finally paid off
  • Nvidia hits $5T market cap — Jensen Huang's reign of consecutive 'top signals' explained