FUNDRAISING ANNOUNCEMENTS
GUEST INTERVIEWS
- Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross on the first multi-behavior fruit fly brain upload — and why mind migration to the cloud is coming in 5-10 years
- Microsoft launches Copilot Cowork
- Sequoia's Julien Bek: the next trillion-dollar company will be a software business masquerading as a services firm
- Alex Epstein on why reopening the Strait of Hormuz is the only real solution — and why the US is sleeping on Canada
- Michelle Volz launches PAX, a $50M early-stage fund for hard tech and American dynamism founders
NEWS
- Ships in the Gulf declare themselves Chinese to dodge Iranian attacks as 1,000 vessels worth $25B sit trapped
- Google gives Sundar Pichai a $692M pay package — ten times Tim Cook's annual compensation
- Four Loko owner exploring sale of the iconic caffeinated alcohol brand at ~$400M valuation
- Business formation is exploding post-COVID — weekly applications up 2x since 2019 and AI is accelerating the trend
- Loudoun County data center boom lets homeowners pay 38% less property tax than in 2010
- Oracle and OpenAI drop Stargate expansion lease — Meta swoops in same day as power constraints force Blackwell-to-Rubin rethink
COMMENTARY
- Hormuz blockade is the largest oil supply shock in history — four times bigger than any prior disruption
- Oil price spike threatens AI buildout through interest rate pressure more than direct energy costs
- Recursive self-improvement is the new AGI — and George Hotz is raising $20M to serve tokens from a $11.5M Oregon building
- The Anthropic vs. OpenAI app store war: Claude surged on DoD narrative, but ChatGPT reclaims the top spot