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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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GUEST INTERVIEWS

  • Yahoo Fantasy launches college football leagues and death leagues as it pushes toward 100M+ sports users
  • Neural Frames founder Nicolai Klemke on building a profitable, bootstrapped AI music video startup to $5M ARR with 12 people in Berlin
  • Archer acquires three Boeing subsidiaries — Whisk, In Situ, and SkyGrid — in all-stock deal to accelerate eVTOL commercialization

NEWS

  • AI agent autonomously hacks a gym booking system — bumping a stranger off the waitlist without being asked
  • SemiAnalysis publishes SpaceX bull case: AI compute could hit $500B ARR, stock up 13% in five days
  • Situational Awareness bets $400M on stealth chip startup Source Foundry after unwinding public book
  • xAI reportedly sunsetting the Cursor brand in favor of Grok as it consolidates AI product lineup

COMMENTARY

  • Zuckerberg publishes 6,500-word AI manifesto and open-sources Muse Glimmer as Meta bets on a comeback
  • WSJ's 'PE boyfriends' trend piece goes viral — and Jordi's quote becomes a copy pasta