FUNDRAISING ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Taste Labs founder Thais Castello raises $18.5M to build AI for aesthetic taste and content quality
• Jake Paul raises oversubscribed $100M for Anti Fund; Geoffrey Woo on betting on robotics, bio, and energy over software

GUEST INTERVIEWS

• Derek Thompson on Abundance's political traction, self-optimization culture, and the CEO of the self
• ARM CEO Rene Haas on launching the company's first CPU product, AI's compute demand, and the SoftBank relationship
• Defense Unicorns CEO Rob Slaughter on AI lowering barriers for tiny defense startups
• Rob Reid on biosecurity risks: synthetic biology is exponential, and DNA supply chains are dangerously unregulated
• David Senra on Pulitzer's talent raids, cult founders, and the punk rock independence of podcasting

COMMENTARY

• AI talent wars 2.0: hosts discuss Aidan Gomez and G7 chair moment with Sam Altman