FUNDRAISING ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Maxima raises $41M Series A to automate the month-end close with AI agents across ERPs
• Method Security raises $26M from a16z and General Catalyst to build autonomous cyber offense and defense
• Profluent Bio raises $106M to design proteins from scratch with AI — trained on 100 billion proteins and 20 trillion tokens
• Luma AI raises $900M Series C at $4B+ valuation and partners with HUMAIN to build 2-gigawatt compute cluster in Saudi Arabia

GUEST INTERVIEWS

• Byrne Hobart: AI bubble is pro-social — it coordinates the entire supply chain to overbuild, and that's the point
• Silver Lake co-founder Glenn Hutchins on inventing tech private equity, cash flow lending, and navigating AI infrastructure capital

NEWS

• xAI and Nvidia to build 500-megawatt data center in Saudi Arabia with HUMAIN
• Cloudflare outage knocks X, DoorDash, and major sites offline for hours

COMMENTARY

• Would you want iMessage inside Gemini? The walled garden problem for Apple's AI deal with Google
• Gemini 3 beats humans at GeoGuessr and trained entirely on Google TPUs — no Nvidia chips needed