FUNDRAISING ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Dorm Room Fund raises $50M for its fourth fund, with early bets on Cursor and Anysphere
• General Intuition raises $220M to train robot brains on 3 billion gaming videos per year
• Anorak Ventures closes $35M Fund III focused on deep tech and American dynamism

GUEST INTERVIEWS

• Joe Gebbia on america.gov: replacing 29,000 government websites with one AI-powered portal
• Larry Ellison's octopus empire: Oracle's 40% owner-operator is now a neo-cloud betting everything on AI and Hollywood

NEWS

• Anthropic lobbied the Vatican to accept Claude's consciousness — and the Pope said no
• Paramount and Warner Bros officially merge into Skydance, David Ellison posts debut on X
• Anthropic IPO roadshow targeting week of November 9, ahead of Thanksgiving

COMMENTARY

• OpenAI's 'Sign in with ChatGPT' could reshape app economics for indie developers
• Tesla Cybertruck tier list: self-driving is S-tier, manual driving is worse than a Prius
• Ben Affleck explains AI model fine-tuning on camera, hosts react to his surprising fluency