FUNDRAISING ANNOUNCEMENTS
GUEST INTERVIEWS
- MongoDB CEO CJ Desai on 60,000 customers, AI-native growth reacceleration, and M&A strategy
- Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince: Italy's €14M fine is 'thuggish' internet censorship that Washington is now pushing back on
- Brian Chesky: the chatbot is the MS-DOS of AI — Airbnb is designing for the next paradigm
- Delian Asparouhov on holiday term sheets, defense manufacturing unicorns, and the K-shaped LP market
- Baiju Bhatt left Robinhood to build a space-based solar power grid — first satellites launch this summer
- Skild AI raises $1.4B at $14B valuation to build a general-purpose robot brain for any hardware
- BRINC Drones CEO Blake Resnick on the DJI ban, being sanctioned by China, and 911-response drone networks
- Listen Labs grew revenue 15x and interviewed 1 million people since its last TBPN appearance — raises $100M
- Marc Benioff on AgentForce, Slackbot, and why AI companies must be held accountable for teen suicides
NEWS
- Big Tech goes deep into mining: Tesla opens lithium refinery, AWS underwrites copper extraction
- Thinking Machines CTO fired for 'unethical conduct' as co-founders defect back to OpenAI
- Meta cuts 1,500 Reality Labs employees as it shifts investment from metaverse to wearables
- Google launches personal intelligence beta, connecting Gemini to Gmail, Photos, and search history
- OpenAI signs $10B multi-year compute deal with Cerebras through 2028
- Stan Kroenke becomes America's biggest private landowner with 1M-acre New Mexico purchase
COMMENTARY
- Microsoft commits to paying premium electricity rates to defuse AI power backlash
- NYC sauna wars heat up as Bath House, Othership, and Alter cluster in the Flatiron District
- OpenAI's Super Bowl ad strategy: from inspiration to pragmatic utility
- David Ellison's Hollywood empire: from failed actor to Paramount owner eyeing Warner Bros.