FUNDRAISING ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Jack and Jill raises $40M to build an agentic hiring network with half a million users across SF, NYC, and London
• AIUC raises $40M Series A to build frontier AI auditing standards and insurance — modeled on nuclear
• Profound raises $180M from Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins to become the canonical AI marketing company

GUEST INTERVIEWS

• Jim VandeHei says CEOs should delete half their work — and AI is making that possible now
• Malibu Boats CEO on the K-shaped boating market: payment buyers sitting out, premium buyers spending more
• Activision's CMO on Call of Duty MW4: Kill Block, esports, creator programs, and marketing a franchise with 100M players
• Stephen Colbert and Josh Kline launch Scripto as free screenwriting software — charging only when productions scale

NEWS

• Morgan & Morgan commits $1B to AI over a decade, plans to sell its legal AI platform to rival firms
• Pulley shuts down and hands customers to Carta after running out of runway
• Driscoll's brought blueberries to China — and China stole the playbook, then crushed U.S. growers

COMMENTARY

• War, AI buildout, and rate hikes: why interest rates are stuck above 5% and what breaks first
• Dario Amodei calls for slowing AI capability development — and Washington is starting to listen