FUNDRAISING ANNOUNCEMENTS

• CodeRabbit raises $143M at $6B valuation as AI code review becomes the new observability
• Neros Technologies raises $250M as Sequoia triples down and production hits 1,200 drones per week

GUEST INTERVIEWS

• Darren Rovell breaks down the Lakers sale: Walter's insurance problems, the casino economy, and why Whatnot is 90% gambling
• Patrick Whitesell invests in Alex Cooper's Unwell, betting on creator-led media empires over platforms
• Jeff Huber launches Zeitgeist, Chroma's shared AI memory layer for enterprise teams, as cloud hits 1,000 paying customers
• Vivodyne grows human tissues at scale to replace animal drug testing — and is already working with top-10 pharma

NEWS

• Josh Kushner and Bob Iger acquire the LA Lakers in record $12.5B deal
• xAI releases Grok 4.6, matching frontier intelligence at 85% lower cost than Claude
• Anthropic watermarks all Claude outputs — EU regulation goes global
• Nvidia enters the model wars with open-source Nemotron and AI router Nemo Switchyard

COMMENTARY

• Founders should always send investor updates — even when losing