FUNDRAISING ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Greptile raises $50M Series B led by Menlo to automate code validation as agentic coding spend explodes
• Town raises $108M Series B at $1B valuation to build AI workplace assistant with multiplayer and multi-channel support
• Tolan raises $30M Series B with USV and Keith Rabois to build personal AI companion focused on memory and emotional connection

GUEST INTERVIEWS

• WIRED's Katie Drummond on interviewing Elizabeth Holmes: the TED Talk era made her fraud possible, and she still isn't showing scientific chops
• Bing Gordon on AI and games: agents are the new outsource, but building the system underneath is still the hard part

NEWS

• SemiAnalysis raises 2027 data center capacity forecast from 43 to 50 gigawatts
• Anthropic staff predict 17% GDP growth from AI; broader public already expects 5.4%

COMMENTARY

• Nathan Fielder's Theranos documentary sparks debate over whether Elizabeth Holmes was a bad founder or a product of the TED Talk era
• Brett Adcock's Hark app pizza giveaway turns into PR disaster; AI personal agent economics debated
• Poppy's $2.2B Pepsi acquisition: founders got 87% of deal value upfront as earnout collapses to $12M