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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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FUNDRAISING ANNOUNCEMENTS

  • Stuut raises $52.5M Series B and 8x's its customer base in under 10 months with AI-powered revenue collection
  • HealthLeap raises $38M from Sequoia to bring real-time AI disease screening to hospitals, starting with malnutrition

GUEST INTERVIEWS

  • Historian Walter Russell Mead on civilizational rot, expert distrust, and why AI's deflationary effect on services may be the story everyone's missing
  • AG1 CEO Kat Cole on hitting 10,000 retail doors, launching AG1 Pro, and using AI agents to keep OpEx flat as revenue scales
  • Bonsai Robotics is running 430 autonomous agricultural machines and building its own world model on Nvidia Cosmos
  • Revel doubles headcount to 70 and deploys to nuclear reactors as hard-tech company formation in SoCal surges from 130 to 279 firms
  • OpenAI launches GPT-6 to 1.2 billion users with on-the-fly intelligent UI generation and streaming reasoning

NEWS

  • SpaceX raising $40B in debt to fund blockbuster Nvidia chip order, with Apollo leading the financing

COMMENTARY

  • OpenAI solves hundreds of math problems, raising questions about specialized AI companies and the shape of machine intelligence
  • Porsche Mission S goes analog with a flat-eight engine as automakers face their own 'quartz crisis' moment