FUNDRAISING ANNOUNCEMENTS

• The Better Money Company raises $10M to build a stablecoin clearinghouse for traditional payments companies

GUEST INTERVIEWS

• Dr. Jonathan Slotkin breaks down MedVee: fake doctors, oral GLP-1s with zero evidence, and regulatory gaps enabling bad actors
• Liz Hoffman on the jobs report, Gulf capital flight, and why prediction markets could replace investing
• Sierra hits $100M ARR in seven quarters and launches GhostWriter — an agent for building agents
• GrayMatter Robotics partners with Huntington Ingalls to bring physical AI to US shipbuilding
• Branch embeds into Stripe Connect to offer instant pay and tax filing for 1099 workers

COMMENTARY

• MedVee's $1B claim unravels: FDA warning letters, fake doctors, and razor-thin GLP-1 margins
• China's pork skyscrapers and the oversupply crisis reshaping the world's largest meat market
• The US reverse-engineered Iran's Shahed drone and it's now the backbone of American strikes
• OpenAI plans to burn $85B in 2028 alone as Altman and CFO clash over IPO timing
• AI created 640K jobs in two years but youth unemployment and white-collar displacement loom
• China's AI research output surpasses the US in published papers, but closed US labs skew the picture
• China's 15th five-year plan targets flying taxis, humanoid robots, and brain-computer interfaces by 2030