FUNDRAISING ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Bedrock Robotics raises $270M to bring autonomous heavy machinery to construction, mining, and data centers
• Sara Hooker's Adaption Labs raises $50M to build AI that learns continuously without retraining

GUEST INTERVIEWS

• Jason Fried on Ferrari's Jony Ive-designed EV interior: fresh ideas, but can Ferrari execute?
• Bill Bishop on China's PLA purges, the $20B Taiwan arms package, and the DeepSeek moment redux
• Jason Kelly on Ginkgo Bioworks: GPT-driven autonomous labs beat Stanford benchmark by 40%, democratizing science
• Dan Romero leaves Farcaster for Tempo, the Stripe/Paradigm stablecoin L1 going live in Q2
• Robocraftsman raises new round, deploys versatile metal-forming robots for aerospace and auto at scale

NEWS

• OpenAI launches ads in ChatGPT free tier
• SpaceX pivots from Mars to the moon, targeting March 2027 unmanned lunar landing
• MrBeast acquires a Gen Z banking app, setting up a financial services push

COMMENTARY

• Tech's Super Bowl ad battle: who won, who flopped, and what it means for AI consumer adoption
• Jordi vs. France: a viral exchange over Macron's €30M AI investment claim