FUNDRAISING ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Consensus raises $30M Series B to expand from academic search into a full research workspace
• N of 1 raises $15M to build trading agents — betting that AI-powered investing will follow the same adoption curve as coding agents

GUEST INTERVIEWS

• Augustus gets OCC approval to charter a US national bank — built to modernize dollar clearing for global financial institutions
• Spencer Rascoff on turning around Tinder: from holding company to operating company, with AI sprint cutting product timelines from 12 months to 2
• Giga Energy: from Bitcoin mining to $350M revenue data center builder — with just $3.4M raised
• Astrocade hits 5M MAU and 75K user-created games — building the TikTok for AI-generated playable content
• Long Lake acquires American Express Global Business Travel for $6.3B — the 30-deal AI-native acquirer's biggest bet yet
• Quaid Walker of Bezel on the AP x Swatch collab: an automatic Royal Oak for ~$400 launches May 16

NEWS

• Audemars Piguet partners with Swatch to launch an accessible Royal Oak — and the watch world is melting down
• Cerebras IPO goes 20x oversubscribed — boosting share count and price range ahead of Nasdaq debut
• Trump heads to Beijing with Apple, Cisco, Goldman CEOs in tow — Iran looms over the summit