The Biggest Winners From Unitree’s IPO

Unitree achieved $50 billion valuation. Wang Xingxing’s personal stake now valued at $15 billion. Meituan, HongShan, Shunwei, Matrix Partners & CITIC all got billions.

Unrivaled Basketball Valued At $650 Million After New Funding Round, League Says

Unrivaled surpasses its $100 million Series C target, reaching a $650 million valuation as the player-owned women’s basketball league prepares for its 3rd season in 2027.

Why AI Flatters You And Who Gets Paid To Stop It

Why AI models agree with everything you say, who’s raising millions to fix it, and three prompts that measurably cut the flattery.

Josh Kushner’s Fortune Tripled This Year Thanks To Stakes In OpenAI, SpaceX And More

The Kushner scion’s VC firm Thrive Capital nearly tripled its assets thanks to smart bets on OpenAI and SpaceX. Now he’s looking to spend some cash on the NBA’s Lakers.

VCs Are Building Digital Brains To Compound Edge, Here Is How

Andrej Karpathy’s LLM wiki pattern turned the digital brain into a VC category. Here is who is funding AI memory, how firms like Bain Capital use it, and how to build one in an afternoon.

Why is the DOJ investigating Andreessen Horowitz’s board seats?

Andreessen Horowitz has two partners sitting on the boards of companies that now compete with each other: Ben Horowitz at Databricks and Martin Casado at Fivetran. Nothing too scandalous on the surface, except the Department of Just…

Stripe Dates The Singularity To Jan. 1 And Prices It At $8 Billion

Stripe’s growth and OpenRouter acquisition make a bold case for an AI-driven economic shift. Census data suggests the evidence is more complicated.

World Fertility Collapse Threatens Growth And VC Theses

A new paper finds humanity has fallen below replacement fertility, reshaping growth forecasts and VC bets on robotics, automation and AgeTech.

VCs Fund AI Agents’ Second-Order Fallout Before It Hits

As AI agents take over more work, a new investable market is emerging: the technical and human problems they leave behind.

Hourly Power Trading Arrives As US Grid Costs Climb, These Companies Are Leading The Way

AI data centers are straining US power grids. A new hourly electricity derivatives exchange and its VC backers are betting on the fallout.