FUNDRAISING ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Neros Technologies raises $75M Series B to scale FPV drone production for Western militaries
• Valar Atomics raises $130M Series A to mass-produce standardized nuclear reactors and cut energy costs 10x
• Gamma reaches $100M ARR with a 50-person team after raising $68M Series B led by a16z

GUEST INTERVIEWS

• Anduril's VP of Marketing on brand building in defense tech: no renders, only anime, and billboards that sell fighter jets
• New Opendoor CEO Kaz Nejatian: 'We ship every week' — AI, 50-year mortgages, and fixing homeownership
• The Infatuation's CEO on dining trends: non-alcoholic boom, 5:30 dinners, and LA's tough year
• SemiAnalysis ClusterMAX 2.0: CoreWeave leads, FluidStack debuts gold, AWS networking is a debugging nightmare
• Uniswap founder Hayden Adams on activating protocol fees, DeFi's future, and US crypto regulation

NEWS

• OpenAI's GPT-4o deprecation triggers user revolt — fans threaten employees over model sunset

COMMENTARY

• Marc Andreessen vs. the Pope: Silicon Valley's AI ethics debate spills into the timeline
• Bryan Johnson takes five grams of mushrooms publicly — emerges 'unchanged' on conquering death