FUNDRAISING ANNOUNCEMENTS

• ETN raises $1.6M to build Europe's TBPN, announces new studio and five-day-a-week schedule
• AI robotics startup Astrocade emerges from stealth with $71M seed and live robot interaction platform
• Adrenum raises $18M Series A to build scalable sonar hardware for undersea domain awareness

GUEST INTERVIEWS

• Gary Vaynerchuk on collectibles eating contemporary art, pickleball's Anna Leigh Waters, and the generational run at 50
• Sequoia's Dean Meyer on America's open model paradox: US frontier AI is being distilled into Chinese open-source models
• Death Clock launches free nationwide blood testing to democratize longevity health data
• NVIDIA's Justin Boitano makes the case for open-source AI as asymmetric defense and previews Nemotron roadmap

NEWS

• Y Combinator's Startup School goes stadium-scale with 4,500 attendees and Jensen Huang on stage
• SSI announces long-term strategic partnership with NVIDIA, will 10x compute in 12 months

COMMENTARY

• NVIDIA launches Open Secure AI Alliance as Silicon Valley splits over open-source AI