Your Daily Gist — April 7, 2026

Hi Quai, welcome to Daily Gist — your newsletters, distilled into conversation! Venture funding just smashed records with a $300 billion quarter, but inside the top AI labs, the generals are fighting over the war chest. The $300 billion figure is a hallucinogenic number considering most of the world feels like it's tightening its belt. Are we looking at actual growth or just a few massive checks for power-hungry chips? It’s a bit of both, but the mo