FUNDRAISING ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Bessemer Venture Partners closes $5.75B fund, with $1.75B for early stage and $4B for growth
• Numeral raises $100M to expand AI-powered sales tax and indirect tax compliance globally

GUEST INTERVIEWS

• Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon on AI smartphones, automotive agents, and acquiring Modular to open-source a CUDA alternative
• Real, a social live sports stats app with 1.5M MAU and 50M daily notifications, pitches second-screen dominance
• Affirm launches in UK on Amazon and unveils ARC, an attention-based underwriting model that outperformed tree-based models by 2x

NEWS

• Saudi Arabia launches its first production EV brand with a 850-horsepower tri-motor wedge sedan and SUV

COMMENTARY

• Jensen Huang pushes back on AI doomers and regulation advocates in Ezra Klein interview
• Claude Opus 5.5 JavaScript and Blender demos signal a shift from benchmarks to visual AI outputs
• Nathan Fielder's documentary about Elizabeth Holmes before prison gets unprecedented critic reviews