FUNDRAISING ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Semafor co-founder Ben Smith on building a profitable media company through journalism credibility and a high-end events business

GUEST INTERVIEWS

• Vincenzo Landino on F1's US boom: team valuations, Drive to Survive's real impact, and tech capital flooding motorsport
• Publicis Sapient CEO Nigel Vaz: 93% of enterprise AI pilots fail to scale — here's why and what the fix looks like
• Ravi Gupta announces new company while staying at Sequoia, Pat Grady outlines why now is the best time to start an AI application-layer company
• Jacob Rintamaki on how robotics and AI are transforming data center maintenance and operations

NEWS

• xAI closes $20B Series E, upsizing from $15B target amid earlier skepticism
• Anthropic in advanced talks to raise $10B at $350B valuation
• Semafor raises $30M, achieves first profitable year
• OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health with medical records integration

COMMENTARY

• Boston's tech collapse is a warning for San Francisco: regulatory overreach kills innovation ecosystems
• AI lacks a Steve Jobs — tech industry's failure to articulate its value to the public is an existential risk