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GUEST INTERVIEWS
- Pirate Wires' Blake Dodge on California's billionaire wealth tax: retroactive structure is driving an exodus
- Writer Fredrik deBoer bets against AI economic apocalypse, challenges Dario Amodei's '50% job loss' claim
- Destiny Tech100 CEO Sohail Prasad on making private tech accessible: $100M Anthropic stake, 35 portfolio companies
- Evan Spiegel: Snapchat Plus hits $1B ARR and 25M subscribers, Specs spun out as standalone company
NEWS
- Perplexity kills its ads product less than a year into testing, citing user trust concerns
- Robinhood Ventures launches inaugural fund with Databricks, Ramp, Stripe, and other top private startups
- Humane invests $3B in xAI's Series E just before SpaceX acquisition closes
- Blue Origin CEO vows to 'move heaven and earth' to beat SpaceX to the moon by 2028
- EQT CEO Toby Rice co-founds Energy Corps nonprofit to bring fossil fuel and nuclear energy to impoverished nations
- Anduril in talks to double valuation to ~$60B in new funding round
- Chinese open-source models dominate OpenRouter charts; DHH switches to Kimi K2 as daily driver
- Anthropic blocks Claude consumer OAuth tokens from use in third-party agents like OpenClaw