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Enigma raises $70M to make controlling a robot as easy as adjusting the volume: The massive seed round was led by Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital, with participation from Sarah Guo's Conviction Partners. Read More

Europe got its own TBPN-style live show, and everyone’s angling for a guest spot: On Monday, the network announced a $1.6 million seed round from top players in the media ecosystem, including Powerhouse Capital, Axel Springer SE (which owns Business Insider and Politico), the popular media publication LadBible, and angel investors from OpenAI and DeepMind. With this fresh capital, the network is announcing its largest expansion yet. Read More

The hacker who humiliated spyware makers and was never caught: An awe-inspiring hacktivist who hacked two controversial government spyware makers may be the most prolific hacker to have never gotten caught. What do we know about Phineas Fisher? Read More

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General Compute is making a $300m bet against the GPU

General Compute raised $15m to build the world's first ASIC cloud. By removing the GPU bottleneck, it runs frontier LLMs up to 16x faster than standard GPU clouds. ASIC silicon is also far more energy efficient, so it deploys in air-cooled data centers, making growth and expansion dramatically easier.

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Morning Must-Reads

Hugging Face CEO calls for ‘radical transparency’ after ‘unprecedented’ OpenAI hack: "The first autonomous agent cyberattack is an unprecedented event. It deserves an unprecedented response!" Read More

Kalshi demands Netflix take down trailer for ‘Prediction Games’ documentary: Kalshi claims the trailer is “defamatory” and contains “both fabricated documents and false and misleading statements.” Read More

Inside one London founder house rewriting the founder-house rules : How one founder house is betting work-life balance can beat burnout . Read More

Making sense of the panic over Chinese AI: On the latest episode of Equity, we discussed why Moonshot AI's Kimi seemed to panic Silicon Valley and Wall Street. Read More

Are brain waves the next unlock for physical AI?: Forget YouTube videos—frontier physical AI models need multiple camera angles, dense annotation, and soon, brain wave readings. Read More

Last but Not Least

Snapchat now lets you share what you're listening to in real time: Starting with Spotify, Snapchat users will be able to link their accounts, choose who can see their listening activity, and see what their friends are listening to in real time. Read More