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FUNDRAISING ANNOUNCEMENTS

  • Coverage raises $42M Series B led by Sequoia and Keith Rabois to disrupt insurance brokerage with flat-fee model
  • Sandstone AI raises $10M seed led by Sequoia to centralize legal data and automate in-house workflows

GUEST INTERVIEWS

  • Booz Allen Hamilton CEO on AI in government: Space Llama, $1.5T defense ambitions, and the a16z partnership
  • Booking Holdings CEO on agentic travel: the AI executive assistant that rebooks your whole trip automatically
  • Defense Unicorns co-founder on modernizing software delivery in air-gapped, mission-critical military environments
  • Benchling CEO on bringing AI to biotech cloud workflows after a brutal industry downturn
  • Scott Nolan drops a truth nuke: the U.S. must rebuild uranium enrichment capacity to power nuclear's AI-era renaissance

NEWS

  • John Ternus emerges as front-runner to replace Tim Cook as Apple CEO
  • OpenAI acquires Torch, a four-person healthcare startup, to power ChatGPT Health
  • ElevenLabs hits $330M ARR in 45 months, accelerating from 200M in just 5 months

COMMENTARY

  • Siri needs an app — and Google will eventually pay Apple for LLM routing
  • Claude Co-work launches: Anthropic bets non-technical users will embrace agentic desktop control
  • California's proposed billionaire wealth tax could destroy the founder-controlled company model