FUNDRAISING ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Medra raises $52M Series A to build autonomous AI scientists that run lab experiments at scale
• Also Capital closes $50M Fund II backing hard tech founders who 'play to win' from day zero

GUEST INTERVIEWS

• Citrini co-author Alap Shah: White-collar jobs are down 8% from 2022 peak — and corporate AI adoption hasn't even started
• Prime Intellect launches 'Vibe RL' platform to make reinforcement learning accessible to any developer

NEWS

• Netflix vs. Paramount bidding war for Warner Brothers intensifies, DOJ opens antitrust investigation
• Anthropic accuses DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax of industrial-scale model distillation via 24,000 fraudulent accounts

COMMENTARY

• Dot-com boom déjà vu: What the nineties Internet predictions got right, wrong, and why AI timelines are the real risk
• Polo's gene-edited horse clones: The sport's GOAT bet on biotech two decades ago is paying off
• New Xbox CEO has zero gaming experience — does it matter?