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Are data centers the new oil fields?

102

What startups are building next, according to OpenAI’s Head of Startups

103

SoftBank is back, and the AI hype cycle is eating itself

104

From Air Force officer to space defense CEO: Why Even Rogers left to build weapons for orbit

105

Equity Live: From $300M seed rounds to data center builds, AI is feeling bubbly

106

Startups should rethink how they pursue sales and traction, according to VC Tim Chen

107

OpenAI wants to power your browser, and that could be a security nightmare

108

Sam Altman’s eye-scanning startup wants to prove humanity in the age of AI bots

109

From SB 243 to ChatGPT: Why it's ‘not cool' to be cautious about AI

110

Disruption via doping: Enhanced Games founder on the controversial 'future of sports'

111

AI goes enterprise, AltStore raises $6M, and Tesla's FSD investigation

112

Why the new H-1B policy helps outsourcers, not startups

113

AI slop, government stops, and startup uncertainty

114

California just drew the blueprint for AI safety regulation with SB 53

115

From $100B OpenAI deals to $100K visa fees

116

How Chipiron's rethinking the future of MRI

117

Live demo fails, AI safety wins, and the Golden Age of Robotics

118

Why European founders are winning (and it’s not about working less)

119

Mercor has its moment in the AI data race

120

Vibe coding? Meet vibe security

121

Atlassian’s $610M bet, and why everyone’s fighting over your browser

122

Karen Hao on the making of a $90B AI empire

123

Trillion with a ‘T’? That’s a lot of dollars, Nvidia.

124

Mark Cuban’s disruption formula: from streaming and healthcare to AI’s next wave

125

Beanie Babies for the brainrot era

126

Why SecurityPal is choosing 'nuanced capital' over more VC rounds

127

Perplexity’s bid for Google Chrome could be just the beginning

128

All Raise CEO says VC’s smartest firms are betting on diverse leadership

129

OpenAI just made an offer the government can't refuse

130

Figma's IPO success is 'a little bit of a meme stock,' says Sapphire Ventures' Jai Das

131

From Meta’s massive offers to Anthropic’s massive valuation, does AI have a ceiling?

132

Who really benefits from the AI boom?

133

Should Silicon Valley celebrate Trump's AI plans?

134

AI’s talent arms race is starting to look like pro sports

135

OpenAI, Thinking Machines Lab, and the built-in chaos of a $2B seed round

136

Hugging Face’s co-founder on bringing open-source AI to life with cute robots

137

Why Hugging Face's new robot is the Seinfeld of AI devices

138

Is SaaS on its way out? The future belongs to agents, according to Narada AI's CEO

139

Why Cloudflare wants AI companies to pay for content

140

From fintech to space tech: Robinhood co-founder Baiju Bhatt is betting on space solar

141

Big Tech lands an early win in legal battles against publishers

142

How one biotech startup is betting on cows and winning over investors

143

Could OpenAI fill Microsoft’s shoes?

144

Seed to Series C: What VCs actually want from AI startups

145

Meta’s big AI bet and our not-so-hot-take on fintech IPOs

146

Fiverr’s CEO on why AI is coming for everyone

147

Inside Anthropic's AI Ambitions with Jared Kaplan

148

CrowdStrike’s former CTO on cyber rivalries and how automation can undermine security for early-stage startups

149

Elon dips from DOGE, and Silicon Valley enters the 'find out' stage

150

What founders need to know about tech’s growing influence in D.C.

151

OpenAI goes all in with Jony Ive as Google plays AI catchup

152

Serve is betting that food delivery and access to public markets are the keys to scaling robotics

153

$1 Billion a lot of money these days?

154

Unpacking Rippling vs Deel: corporate espionage and a $16B plot twist

155

Meta's speeding up the "Mad Men to Math Men" pipeline

156

StrictlyVC Download: Why Eric Slesinger, a former CIA officer, is now funding European defense tech

157

Damn, the Cluely ragebait got us

158

The rise of retail investors in secondaries, and why delayed IPOs will become the norm

159

Big Tech’s antitrust cases are starting to feel like Groundhog Day

160

How to survive and thrive as tariffs, AI, and politics unsettle the rules of business

161

Is the SPAC back?

162

We've entered an era of Fintech Maximalism according to Mark Goldberg

163

Meta's Llama drama and how Trump's tariffs could hit moonshot projects

164

Why prediction markets are going mainstream with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour

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Spy games in HR tech: Inside Rippling’s wild lawsuit against Deel

166

Startup Battlefield winner Salva Health is changing the game in breast cancer detection

167

OpenAI is shooting for AGI but landing in Studio Ghibli

168

Bradley Tusk says VC is dead. But the 'fixer' in him is just getting started

169

Inside the Google-Wiz acquisition and the deal's biggest winners

170

'Every software company is an AI company now,' says AngelList CEO Avlok Kohli

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OpenAI and Microsoft’s ‘frenemies relationship,’ and what you missed at SXSW

172

Reimagining urban infrastructure with AI and Autodesk

173

The California AI bill is back, and it lost its teeth

174

Is Silicon Valley still the best place for startups? Insight Partners’ Ryan Hinkle doesn’t think so

175

Every year, it seems like there's at least one big YC controversy

176

How Gradient Ventures is Shaping the AI Startup Landscape with Eylul Kayin

177

AI Wearables 1.0: Was Humane’s AI Pin too ambitious?

178

How Slow Ventures is giving the creator economy a rebrand

179

Elon Musk and Sam Altman are basically in a rap battle

180

Sheel Mohnot says the fintech market is ‘hot again’

181

Are companies falling out of love with OpenAI?

182

DeepSeek: separating fact from hype

183

DeepSeek lights a fire under Silicon Valley

184

Forget ‘Founder Mode,’ what about Customer Mode?

185

How are founders positioning themselves for the next 4 years?

186

AI's $100 billion impact: 2024’s venture capital surge and the road ahead for startups

187

$200M woolly mammoths and a farewell to TikTok

188

'Social media should be built on protocols, not platforms,' according to Mastodon's CEO

189

$5B livestream shopping apps, Nvidia reveals, and the weirdest tech at CES

190

The future of AI on wheels, according to Jesse Levinson from Zoox

191

Robinhood’s 'comeback' and big plans for 2025 with co-founder and CEO Vlad Tenev

192

What’s next for Bluesky? CEO Jay Graber on growth, community, and decentralization

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2024: Founder Mode, AI, and the 'Rise of the Broligarchs'

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Found: Empathy-driven investing with Erin and Sara Foster

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Are AI companies just defense tech now?

196

Building physical tech is back in fashion thanks to AI, robotics, and defense

197

It's the end of the road for Cruise, and Bluesky is still taking off

198

How much ‘government efficiency’ will Elon Musk be able to pull off?

199

Who knew you could get a $500 million valuation without launching a product?

200

'If you build it, they won't come': Bison Ventures founders on scaling frontier tech