FUNDRAISING ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Ramp raises $300M at $32B valuation, CEO Eric Glyman says the company is doubling revenue above $1B annually
• BoomPop raises $25M to automate corporate group travel with AI agents — CEO says it's the second biggest expense after payroll
• CHAOS Industries raises $510M to build next-gen adaptive radar systems for modern battlefields

GUEST INTERVIEWS

• Bernstein semiconductor analyst Stacy Rasgon: AI demand shows no signs of slowing and it's not like 2001
• Bending Spoons CEO Luca Ferrari on acquiring AOL and the playbook for buying overlooked digital businesses
• Night Media's Reed Duchscher on managing MrBeast, YouTube's monetization dominance, and the creator economy's future

NEWS

• Jeff Bezos launches AI startup Project Prometheus with $6.2B, taking his first operational CEO role since leaving Amazon
• Apple's Tim Cook succession planning intensifies as Financial Times reports John Ternus as likely heir
• Zipline building 20,000 aircraft per year in South San Francisco and growing deliveries 15% week-over-week

COMMENTARY

• GPT-4o's companion users may have saved it from retirement — a debate on model versioning and AI attachment
• Yann LeCun says LLMs are a dead end — is he right or just early?
• CoreWeave down 46% in a month and Blue Owl under pressure — is the AI financing bubble starting to crack?
• Humanoid robotics debate: is UB Tech's mass delivery real or CGI, and why aren't US makers calling for China sanctions?