FUNDRAISING ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Rainmaker raises $100M Series B to scale cloud-seeding drones and win water contracts with hyperscalers and ski resorts
• Raindrop raises $35M from CRV to build AI-powered agent reliability and simulation for Fortune 100 companies

GUEST INTERVIEWS

• Vinod Khosla: trust — not data lock-in — will be the moat for personal agents, and startups have an edge over Meta
• Aaron Levie: enterprise software is accelerating, not dying — agents are creating more demand for platforms like Box
• iConnections CEO Ron Biscardi on building the world's largest capital introduction platform and the Tomorrow X conference
• Lucas Shaw on the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger, Netflix vs. YouTube creator war, and Hollywood's box office rebound

NEWS

• Amazon bans Meta's Muse agent from shopping on amazon.com, citing unauthorized access and credential storage
• Paramount settles state AG lawsuit, clearing last major obstacle to $111B Warner Bros. Discovery merger

COMMENTARY

• CDance 2.5 makes AI video whole-person replacement shockingly convincing — and ByteDance isn't open-sourcing it
• Why ByteDance leads in AI video despite compute disadvantage — and why it won't open-source CDance