FUNDRAISING ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Flapping Airplanes raises $180M at $1.5B valuation to train human-level AI with dramatically less data
• Outtake raises $40M Series B to fight AI-driven impersonation and fraud at internet scale
• Feanix uses genome sequencing and AI to predict dairy cow outcomes, scaling to 500K cows since August launch
• Voyager Ventures closes $275M Fund II for foundational energy, transportation, and AI investments

GUEST INTERVIEWS

• Miles Brundage launches AVERI, an independent AI auditing institute focused on frontier model safety

NEWS

• Tether quietly becomes one of the world's largest gold holders, storing bullion in Swiss nuclear bunker
• Twin AI raises $10M seed to build agentic computer-use platform, claims 100K+ agents deployed
• Fed holds rates steady at first 2026 meeting; Meta and Microsoft beat earnings
• SoftBank in talks to invest up to $30B more in OpenAI in latest round targeting $830B valuation
• Pinterest drops 10% after announcing ~15% workforce cut to focus on AI

COMMENTARY

• Netflix as AI-slop refuge: the upload button matters more than AI policy
• Saudi Arabia's liquidity crunch: PIF turns to wealthy families and Qatar as Vision 2030 finances strain
• Moltbot moment: one developer, $51K in tokens, and a product that feels like a 10-person startup