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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.

Fri, May 15
Mon, May 18

FUNDRAISING ANNOUNCEMENTS

  • Decart raises new funding and launches DOS 2.0, a 5-8x faster inference engine powering real-time video and agentic AI

GUEST INTERVIEWS

  • Mike Isaac reports live from outside the courthouse on the Musk vs. OpenAI verdict
  • Redis CEO Rowan Trollope on building the context engine for the agent era
  • Joanna Stern left the Wall Street Journal to build an independent media business — her book 'I Am Not a Robot' is the flywheel

NEWS

  • Jury dismisses Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI after just 90 minutes of deliberation
  • Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness hedge fund 13F reveals massive semiconductor puts and long Nvidia position
  • Shein acquires Everlane for just $100M after the DTC darling raised over $145M from top-tier VCs

COMMENTARY

  • Data center backlash goes mainstream — and Ben Thompson proposes paying locals $10K a year to accept them
  • America's protein mania is creating a whey shortage — and the dairy industry can't build processing capacity fast enough