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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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FUNDRAISING ANNOUNCEMENTS

  • River AI raises $1.1B to bring personalized, self-owned AI to companies and consumers

GUEST INTERVIEWS

  • CoreWeave CEO Brannin McBee on record Q2, GPU scarcity, and why demand for 4-year-old chips is still growing
  • Flock Safety launches mandatory accountability tools after surveillance backlash — and arrests are coming
  • Sonya Huang on AI's 'not your weights, not your product' moment and why application companies are building their own labs
  • Prisma founder Sean Cole on training lab-grown human neurons to do token prediction and beat silicon on nonlinear tasks

NEWS

  • Instagram refreshes its wordmark for the first time in a decade
  • Yahoo's head of multimodal AI leaves Meta to start a new company
  • North Korea's secret IT workforce infiltrated thousands of US companies using AI and stolen identities
  • Aman resort cancels a YouTuber's booking and goes viral — but the full story is more complicated
  • Anthropic reportedly in talks to acquire Decart at a $6B valuation
  • Silver Lake in talks to acquire Workday in deal that could value the HR software giant at $50B

COMMENTARY

  • SaaSpocalypse revisited: cybersecurity wins, Canva slips, and the survivors nobody expected