FUNDRAISING ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Valar Atomics raises $1B Series B led by Sequoia after becoming first startup to generate nuclear power
• Base Power raises $1B Series D at $13B valuation and opens Texas battery factory

GUEST INTERVIEWS

• John Gruber on Apple's AI dilemma: Siri AI is fine for normal users, but Apple has no path to the frontier
• Solo builder goes viral with demon-horned quadruped robot designed for chainsaw work in disaster zones
• Ontology wants to automate scientific discovery end-to-end, starting with AI post-training R&D

COMMENTARY

• Hank Green's AI research backlash exposes the tension between science education and anti-AI sentiment
• OpenAI's Astra solves 10 major open math problems, sparking debate about AI's limits in unverifiable domains
• Stripe data shows solo-founder $1M+ companies doubling — AI is reshaping the unit economics of startups