FUNDRAISING ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Casa raises $20M Series A to build a 'CARFAX for your home' with AI-powered property management
• Panthalassa raises $140M to build autonomous ocean energy nodes for off-grid AI inference
• Haun Ventures raises $1B for 'new economy' fund focused on stablecoins, tokenized assets, and agentic finance

GUEST INTERVIEWS

• Alpha School launches a founder track: can high schoolers build million-dollar businesses in four years?
• Living Carbon closes $500M deal with Octopus to 10x US reforestation on abandoned mine land
• Anjney Midha launches AMP, a $1.3B+ public benefit corporation to be the 'independent system operator' of the AI compute grid
• Colossal Biosciences reveals 260 scientists, $650M raised, and new blue buck project — with more unannounced species coming
• Serval launches 'Future Founders' program: hire pre-founders as forward-deployed engineers, accelerate vesting in 6 months
• Rivet publishes TaxBench: top AI models pass less than 31% of multi-step tax questions reliably

NEWS

• GameStop makes $55B bid for eBay, but Ryan Cohen can't explain where the money comes from
• White House considers AI model vetting process before public release, despite Trump's anti-regulation stance

COMMENTARY

• Andrej Karpathy's 'Software 3.0' vision: the neural computer is becoming real
• Export controls appear to be working: US AI labs pulling ahead of Chinese counterparts on capability benchmarks