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FUNDRAISING ANNOUNCEMENTS

  • Function Health raises $298M Series B at $2.5B valuation, slashes price to $1/day and adds full-body MRI via Ezra acquisition
  • Raindrop raises $15M seed from Lightspeed to monitor AI agents in production — and the problem gets worse as agents get better

GUEST INTERVIEWS

  • 14-year-old Australian founder pitches Finkle, a Duolingo for life skills, with 7.8M-view YC application video
  • Dylan Patel on Google's TPU going external: how it's already saving OpenAI 30% on Nvidia spend before deploying a single chip
  • Congressman Ro Khanna on AI job displacement, Epstein transparency, and why he's a YIMBY who opposes AI preemption of state regulation
  • Runway's Gen-4.5 tops the video arena leaderboard, beating Google and OpenAI with a research-first, taste-driven approach
  • Prime Intellect's Intellect-3 proves a 100B-parameter open RL model can match closed-source giants — and every app will need to do this

NEWS

  • David Sacks fires back at NYT 'hoax factory' hit piece, hires defamation law firm Clare Locke

COMMENTARY

  • Three years of ChatGPT: Nvidia up 10x, the Mag Seven tripled, and AI discourse has finally reached the Thanksgiving table