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