Bonus In Brief: Choke Point: The Risks and Realities of America’s Iran Blockade
On April 13, the U.S. military began a “blockade of all maritime traffic entering and exiting Iranian ports.”…
Gateway Capital announces first close of $25M Fund II
Gateway Capital Partners, the venture firm founded by Dana Guthrie, announced the first close for its $25 million…
De-fi platform Drift suspends deposits and withdrawals after millions in crypto stolen in hack
Decentralized finance company Drift says it has suspended withdrawals and deposits after confirming a security incident. The crypto…
Meta launches new initiative to support entrepreneurship, drive AI adoption
Meta is launching Meta Small Business, a new company wide initiative focused on supporting entrepreneurship and driving AI…
Thinking Machines Lab inks massive compute deal with Nvidia
OpenAI co-founder Mira Murati’s two-year-old AI research lab has signed a sizable deal with semiconductor giant Nvidia. Murati’s…
Just three companies dominated the $189B in VC investments last month
AI continues to dominate the venture world, per a new Crunchbase report. A record $189 billion of global…
Geopolitical drama reportedly stalls IPO of SoftBank-backed PayPay
PayPay, Japan’s leading mobile payment app, has reportedly postponed its U.S. IPO due to market volatility and recent…
Jack Altman joins Benchmark as GP
Jack Altman and Benchmark announced today that he would be joining the firm as a general partner. This…
Syria’s Post-Assad Pulse Check
In December 2024, forces led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham defeated Assad regime forces, leading to the regime’s collapse…
Maybe AI agents can be lawyers after all
Last month, I wrote about Mercor’s new benchmark measuring AI agents’ capabilities on professional tasks like law and…
AI SRE Resolve AI confirms $125M raise, unicorn valuation
Resolve AI, a startup automating the work of system reliability engineering (SRE), aka troubleshooting system failures, has announced a…
Inference startup Inferact lands $150M to commercialize vLLM
The creators of the open source project vLLM have announced that they transitioned the popular tool into a…