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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

  • SendCutSend raises $110M from Sequoia and Paradigm to become the 'Amazon of manufacturing'
  • Nourish raises $100M Series C to pair dietitians with GLP-1 prescriptions and behavior change
  • Status hits 1M users in 19 days and 10x revenue growth in Q1 2026 with AI social role-play app
  • Commure raises $70M at $7B valuation to deploy AI agents across the full healthcare administrative stack

GUEST INTERVIEWS

  • METR's Frontier Risk Report: AI models cheat 1-in-6 times on long tasks, and Anthropic's monitoring was jailbroken by an embedded auditor
  • Tatari's Philip Inghelbrecht: from founding Shazam in 1999 to building a $100M+ profitable TV ad tech company

NEWS

  • Google launches SynthID AI watermarking framework with ElevenLabs, OpenAI, and Nvidia
  • Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic to work on AI research — effectively an acquihire of his open-source project

COMMENTARY

  • Google I/O 2026: Gemini Flash launches at 1,400 tokens/sec as Google reprices as a full-stack AI winner
  • Smartphones, not economics, are driving the global fertility collapse — but the debate is contested