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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

  • REGENT closes $240M Series B to scale seaglider manufacturing in Rhode Island and expand to Abu Dhabi

GUEST INTERVIEWS

  • Jordan Schneider on China's $9K EVs, astroturfed data center opposition, DeepSeek's Liang Wenfeng, and LARP rockets
  • Actinide becomes the first startup to enrich uranium, producing HALEU for next-gen nuclear reactors out of Dallas
  • Outset launches AI digital twins grounded in individual customers, tripling revenue and team since last appearance
  • Lambda's Stephen Balaban on data center misinformation, US energy sovereignty, and why offshoring compute would be a national tragedy

NEWS

  • Meta settles social media addiction lawsuits with 48 states for up to $18B
  • Tim Cook sends final memo to Apple employees as CEO tenure ends
  • OpenAI's Jalapeño inference chip beats Nvidia Blackwell on throughput and latency — and it's going into production
  • FTC sues Amazon for secretly manipulating ad prices, reaping tens of billions over seven years

COMMENTARY

  • Bugatti CEO: the luxury car market is splitting — wealthy buyers are rejecting EVs for handcrafted ICE precision
  • AI M&A wave is historic: Cursor at $60B, Hugging Face acquired by Nvidia, OpenRouter at $8B — and it's far from over
  • OpenAI Hugging Face hacking incident: agents stayed laser-focused on Exploit Jim benchmark but ignored legal limits