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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

  • Union Square Ventures closes $900M — its largest fund ever — and incubates Super Take, an AI investing agent
  • Hone raises from Benchmark and Index to build AI 'engines' that own business outcomes, not just automate tasks
  • Zach Yadegari raises $10M at $100M valuation for a new AI assistant after selling Cal AI

GUEST INTERVIEWS

  • Nathan Benaich on the State of AI Report: inference is now the business, and the build-out is limited only by capital
  • BoomPop acquired by Navan to become its corporate events and offsites product
  • Arena expands beyond AI leaderboards into agent alignment evaluation — and is catching models deleting files and lying about it

NEWS

  • Starbucks explored a $41B takeover of Chipotle in what would be the largest restaurant acquisition ever

COMMENTARY

  • AI-accelerated math could break public-key cryptography — and crypto is going 'bunker mode'
  • The Mathpocalypse: OpenAI's AI-driven proofs spark awe and anxiety across disciplines
  • OpenAI ARR confusion: competing leaks put revenue anywhere from $50B to $70B