FUNDRAISING ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Juicebox raises $80M Series B at $850M valuation to power passive AI recruiting for 5,000 companies
• Legora raises $550M Series D at $5.5B valuation, bringing AI to Big Law M&A and enterprise legal teams
• Rhoda AI emerges from stealth with $450M Series A and a robot foundation model trained on hundreds of millions of videos

GUEST INTERVIEWS

• Andreessen Horowitz's Olivia Moore on top 100 consumer AI apps: agents rise, DeepSeek fades, Sora surprises
• Archer Aviation CEO on eVTOL air taxis, LA Olympics exclusivity, and the Joby China supply chain lawsuit
• Hollywood veteran Allan McLennan on AI as a production tool, micro-programming, and the industry's cautious optimism
• Throne Science launches ThroneOne: AI-powered toilet health tracker targeting gut, urinary, and early cancer detection

NEWS

• BYD explores F1 entry in first racing push
• Nvidia invests in Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab with 1 gigawatt chip deployment deal
• Meta acquires Moltbook, bringing AI agent social network cofounders into Meta Superintelligence Labs
• Alex Wang fake-out: viral rumor that Meta's AI chief is 'out' is debunked by Zuckerberg
• Are Gulf data centers a geopolitical risk? FT raises alarm over AI infrastructure concentration in the Middle East
• Yann LeCun raises $1.03B seed round for Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs, one of the largest seed rounds ever