FUNDRAISING ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Kenn Ricci built Flexjet from a $27,500 fraud-tainted charter acquisition into a fractional jet empire
• Applied Compute's Yash Patil is building continual learning AI agents that absorb institutional knowledge
• Revel raises $150M Series B to modernize hardware control software still stuck in the pre-Windows 98 era
• Moonlake AI's Fan-Yun Sun is building interactive AI-generated worlds using code as the world model
• Adam Draper leads Radiant Nuclear's $360M round after backing every round from pre-seed

GUEST INTERVIEWS

• John Palmer on PartyDow joining Stripe, vibe coding hype, and the Mac Mini open-source moment
• Sammy Azdoufal found a master key in his DJI vacuum that gave him control of all 7,000 devices sold
• Howard Marks on market cycles, contrarian investing, and why AI is now his mentor
• Pika's Demi Guo launches 'AI Selves' — a personalized always-on avatar that learns and monetizes your expertise

NEWS

• Nvidia posts $68B quarter, up 73% YoY, but stock sells off 5% at open
• Anthropic hires consumer product lead and signals serious push into consumer AI
• Apple acquires Drive to Survive Season 8 rights from Netflix for Apple TV+
• Micron's $100B New York megafab threatened by lawsuit from six citizens found by California activist group
• Block cuts 40% of workforce — from 10,000 to 6,000 — citing AI-driven efficiency as the primary reason