FUNDRAISING ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Forterra raises $238M Series C to build autonomous defense vehicles and open-architecture battlefield systems
• Parallel Web Systems raises $100M Series A to power AI agents doing real-time web research at scale

GUEST INTERVIEWS

• SemiAnalysis's Jordan Nanos on hyperscaler IT asset life extension, GPU depreciation, and Microsoft's Azure strategy
• HubSpot co-founder Brian Halligan on coaching AI-era CEOs, the rise of 'five-tool' founders, and his new Sequoia podcast
• Fei-Fei Li on World Labs' Marble: the first public 3D world generation model and the spatial intelligence frontier
• Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire on 108% USDC growth, $9.6T on-chain activity, and the Arc Layer-1 blockchain launch
• Lighter founder Vladimir Novakovski on building a low-latency, verifiable decentralized exchange on Ethereum
• Boardy CEO Andrew D'Souza on connecting 5,000 founders raising $16B with 600 investors managing $1T

COMMENTARY

• Rage baiting as a product strategy: why YC's Chad IDE launch is a bad sign for startup culture
• Benchmark's Everett Randle says Andreessen Horowitz can't promise 5x net returns — and the VC world fires back
• Satya Nadella's Dwarkesh interview reveals Microsoft's AI strategy: demand-driven build-out, MAI training lab, and OpenAI IP optionality