FUNDRAISING ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Forus raises $160M at a $1B valuation to use AI to help patients access expensive medications faster
• Monaco raises a Series B from Benchmark and Founders Fund as the AI-native CRM blows past early revenue targets
• A Star closes $450M Fund III to back AI application layer and seed-stage founders globally
• Judgment Labs raises a Series A to help agent-native startups improve long-horizon agents from production data
• Cinder raises $41M to help platforms fight AI-powered abuse using the team's ex-Meta threat intelligence expertise

GUEST INTERVIEWS

• Doomberg on why oil is still cheap despite the Strait of Hormuz closure and what it means for AI data centers
• Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch on why legacy brand authority is a competitive moat in the AI content era

NEWS

• Sam Altman takes the stand in OpenAI vs. Musk trial as both sides land punches
• Anthropic cracks down on unauthorized secondary stock sales as SPV frenzy reaches cab driver territory
• Thinking Machines Lab launches interaction models with native full-duplex audio and video
• eBay rejects GameStop's $55B takeover bid as 'neither credible nor attractive'
• Byron Allen acquires BuzzFeed for $120M, becomes CEO as Jonah Peretti moves to President of AI