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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

  • Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy on $1.49B quarter (+37% YoY), AI product breakouts, and M&A philosophy
  • BaseLabs launches Space Labs research initiative to open-source RL training environments and solve continual learning
  • Portal Space Systems' first Starburst spacecraft launches October 19 to demonstrate orbital maneuverability for defense
  • Jump and the Minnesota Timberwolves are building the 'Shopify for sports ticketing' — first NBA deployment live
  • Aura CEO Hari Ravichandran reveals $340M ARR, building consumer cybersecurity with a family-graph AI model
  • Pocket hits 300K devices sold — founder Akshay Narisetti on why dedicated AI hardware beats phone apps
  • Mohit Aron comes out of stealth with SaiFin, raising $44M to solve the enterprise 'context gap' in go-to-market
  • Pablo Torre on the Steve Ballmer salary cap scandal: the NBA's biggest punishment ever and what comes next

NEWS

  • Nvidia acquires Hugging Face for $12.93B — a price encoded in the hugging face emoji's decimal code
  • OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra, scoring 99.9% on ARC-AGI-3 and saturating the benchmark

COMMENTARY

  • AI model mayhem: Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1, Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash, and Meta's Muse Spark 1.3 all drop the same week