FUNDRAISING ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Profound raises $96M Series C at $1B valuation, launches autonomous marketing agents to manage brand presence across AI platforms
- AIUC launches the world's first AI insurance policy with ElevenLabs, underwriting hallucination risk and data leakage for enterprise AI agents
- MaddX raises $500M to ship LLM-optimized chips with SRAM+HBM hybrid architecture targeting frontier labs
GUEST INTERVIEWS
- Stripe Collison brothers reveal 34% growth, tender offer, and why 2026 Q1 may be 'the first quarter of the singularity'
- Bill Gurley on 'Running Down a Dream': hyper-curiosity as a career edge, AI as a superpower for self-learners, and warnings on retail VC access
- Notion's Ivan Zhao launches Custom Agents — autonomous AI teammates running background workflows without a Mac Mini
- Inception Labs' diffusion LLM hits 1,000+ tokens/sec on standard Nvidia GPUs, targeting latency-sensitive coding and voice agent use cases
- Cognition's Scott Wu: enterprise usage of Devon doubled in 6 weeks, Windsurf evolves from code editor to English-as-source-of-truth interface
- Standard Intelligence trains computer-use models on 30fps screen capture, demos self-driving with 50 minutes of data
NEWS
- Jane Street accused of using insider information to trade against Terra Luna before its collapse
- Anthropic partners with Intuit, Accenture, and DocuSign as public software stocks react to AI integration wave
- Meta forms multi-year deal with AMD for ~6 gigawatts of data center capacity and plans stablecoin comeback on Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp
- Deepseek's next model reportedly trained on banned Nvidia Blackwell GPUs despite US export controls
- HubSpot acquires Starter Story after founder publicly suggested the deal just months ago