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Every weekday we send you summaries of the latest fundraises, interviews and tech news in Silicon Valley from TBPN — technology's daily show.

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FUNDRAISING ANNOUNCEMENTS

  • Omni Analytics raises $120M Series C at $1.5B valuation to build the all-in-one BI platform for the AI era
  • Actively AI raises $45M Series A for its 'agent-per-account' platform that proactively guides revenue teams
  • Avoca raises $125M at unicorn valuation to deploy AI agents for home services businesses — first time out of stealth

GUEST INTERVIEWS

  • Blackstone's Jon Gray on AI, energy, and the $1.3T firm's biggest strategic pivot: picks-and-shovels investing in power and data centers
  • AWS launches Amazon Bedrock Managed Agents with OpenAI integration, targeting enterprise agentic workflows
  • AWS's Anthony Liguori explains how Bedrock Managed Agents gives AI agents their own identity, compute, and governance inside enterprise clouds
  • Alex Epstein on OPEC: UAE's exit is opportunistic, the Strait of Hormuz remains the world's most critical energy chokepoint
  • Shira Lazar on the creator economy: middle-class creators are being squeezed as brands chase mega-names and niche experts
  • Semiconductor analyst 'Bubble Boy' says advanced packaging is the new Moore's Law — and the market hasn't priced it in

NEWS

  • Musk vs. Altman trial opens in Oakland with technical chaos — judge cracks jokes as Elon's lawyer's mic fails four times

COMMENTARY

  • Federal mandate for in-car drunk-driving detection could affect hundreds of millions of trips — but the tech isn't ready
  • OpenAI's GPT-5.5 Codex has a 'goblin mode' problem — system prompt tells it never to discuss goblins, raccoons, or ogres