FUNDRAISING ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Whatnot raises $545M Series G at $20B valuation as live shopping builds a large middle class of millionaire sellers

GUEST INTERVIEWS

• Khosla Ventures' Samir Kaul on leading Jeff Dean's Discovery Loop and why billion-dollar seed rounds are a losing bet
• Databricks co-founder Patrick Wendell: AI coding costs went exponential, smart routing cuts them 30%

NEWS

• Scientists use AI to create entirely new viruses for the first time
• OpenAI's first consumer device will be a hockey-puck-shaped AI companion priced at $300–$400
• New Mexico judge orders Meta to pay over $900M in social media addiction case

COMMENTARY

• Social media's legal exposure is following the tobacco playbook — and it could mean permanent payments
• SemiAnalysis declares DeepMind is no longer a frontier lab as Google bets on cloud over AI research