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  • E247: OpenClaw … WHAT?!; Anthropic $380B primary closed; Stripe $140B tender; Harvey $11B round; + more
    2026/02/13

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    00:00 - Intro
    00:15 - OpenClaw Own the Memory File Thesis
    02:37 - Anthropic $30B Series G, $380B Valuation
    03:35 - Stripe Tender at $140B While Secondary Prints $151B
    04:24 - Databricks $5B Equity at $134B and $2B Debt Capacity
    05:23 - Harvey Talking $200M at $11B Up 38% From December
    06:28 - Runway $315M at $5.3B Up 75% in Under 1 Year
    07:37 - Apptronik Series A Reopened to $935M Total
    08:32 - Modal Labs Discussed $2.5B Valuation Up 127% vs Recent Series B
    09:22 - Gather AI $40M Series B for Warehouse Vision and Drones
    10:31 - Simile $100M for AI Digital Twins With Brand Heavy Roster
    11:30 - Erebor Bank National Charter and $635M Capital With 12% Requirement
    12:45 - MrBeast Beast Industries Buys Fintech Step
    13:42 - SpaceX Moon City Under 10 Years and Mars Still on the Roadmap
    15:13 - Monaco Launches With $35M Raised for AI and Service Sales Model
    16:26 - xAI Reorg Into 4 Areas and Colossus Expands Toward 2GW
    17:54 - X Hits $1B ARR From Subscriptions With $3 to $40 Pricing

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  • E246: SpaceX acquires xAI, now $1.473T in secondary market; Waymo at $116B, +14% vs last round; ElevenLabs at $11B, $330M ARR; + more
    2026/02/06

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    00:00 - Intro
    00:07 - SpaceX Acquires xAI at a $1.25T Combined Valuation
    01:39 - SpaceX Seeks Early Index Inclusion Once Public
    02:50 - SpaceX Files for 1M AI Data-Center Satellites
    03:37 - Anthropic Lines Up a $350B Employee Tender
    04:16 - Anthropic Opus 4.6 Ships With 1,000,000 Tokens and “Agent Teams” for Parallel Work
    04:53 - Goldman Uses Anthropic’s Claude for AI Agents
    05:49 - Waymo Nears a $16B Round at $110B as Alphabet Writes Most of the Check
    06:34 - Cerebras Jumps to $23B Post-Money on a $1B Raise and a 750MW OpenAI Compute Deal
    07:15 - ElevenLabs Raises $500M at $11B and Targets a 2x ARR Step-Up
    07:59 - Clay’s New Employee Tender - $5B Tender After ARR Hits $100M
    08:52 - Lotus Health Raises $35M to Build a Free AI Primary-Care Practice Across All 50 States
    09:46 - Goodfire Raises $150M at $1.25B to Make Black-Box Models Debuggable
    10:42 - Accrual Raises $75M to Deliver AI to Slower-Adopting Industries/Sectors
    11:28 - Fundamental Emerges With $255M and a $1.2B Valuation to Own Structured Data AI
    12:33 - OpenAI Launches Standalone Coding App
    13:29 - OpenAI Frontier Pitches the Enterprise Agent Control Plane as B2B Revenue Targets 50% of Total Rev

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  • E245: SpaceX Jun ’26 IPO; OpenAI Q4’26 IPO; Decagon $4.5B Val; Synthesia $4B Val; + more
    2026/01/30

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    00:00 - Intro
    00:07 - Decagon’s $250M Round Triples Valuation to $4.5B
    01:17 - xAI Gets $2B From Tesla After $20B Series E
    02:06 - Synthesia Raises $200M at $4B as ARR Targets Hit $200M
    03:25 - SpaceX Eyes June 2026 IPO With $50B Raise at $1.5T
    03:52 - SpaceX Starship V3 Heads for Mid-March
    04:27 - SpaceX Starlink Lands Gulf Air Deal as Fleet Rollout Begins Mid-Year
    05:19 - Richard Socher’s Recursive Talks $4B Valuation and Big Compute Spend
    06:12 - Ricursive Hits $4B Valuation Two Months After Launch With $300M Series A
    07:04 - Automation Anywhere in Talks to Buy C3.AI and Go Public by Merger
    08:02 - Harvey Buys Hexus as $8B Secondary Valuation Holds Flat
    08:54 - Anduril Plans 5,500-Job Long Beach Buildout as Valuation Jumps 157%
    09:49 - Anthropic Brings Slack and Figma Into Claude as Valuation Tops $370B
    10:54 - Anthropic Wins GOV.UK Pilot to Build AI Assistant for Job Seekers
    11:48 - Anthropic Forecasts $18B Sales This Year, $55B Next, But Pushes Profit to 2028
    13:02 - Moonshot’s Kimi K2.5 Upgrades to Omni as Valuation Target Moves Toward $5B
    13:53 - OpenAI Preps for Q4 2026 IPO
    14:32 - OpenAI’s $100B Raise Takes Shape With Amazon at $50B and SoftBank at $30B
    15:17 - OpenAI Launches Prism on GPT-5.2 as Science Usage Hits 8.4M Messages a Week
    16:28 - Tether Launches USAT With Anchorage as US Stablecoin Rules Tighten
    17:47 - Redwood Upsizes Series E to $425M as Google Joins and Valuation Clears $6B
    18:56 - US DOE Cuts Nuclear Rulebook by a Third as Startups Raise $1B+
    19:51 - Perplexity Signs $750M Microsoft Cloud Deal While Keeping AWS Preferred

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  • E244: Brex acquired by Capital One; ClickHouse raise at $15B; Nvidia invests in Baseten; New OpenAI revenue streams
    2026/01/24

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    00:00 - Intro
    00:07 - ClickHouse $400M Series D $15B Valuation Langfuse M&A
    01:29 - Runpod $120M Run Rate 500K Developers 31 Regions
    02:59 - Humans& $480M Seed $4.48B Valuation 3 Months Old
    04:03 - Baseten $300M Raise $5B Valuation Nvidia $150M
    04:49 - Noveon Magnetics $215M Raise 2,000+ Tons Per Year Target
    06:17 - Zipline $600M+ New Funding $7.6B Valuation 2M+ Deliveries
    07:34 - Hatch Yelp Acquisition $300M Deal 12x ARR
    08:26 - Brex Capital One Acquisition $5.15B Deal $13B Deposits
    09:30 - DayOne Data Centers IPO Target Up to $20B
    10:14 - World Labs Funding Talks at $5B Potential $500M Balance Sheet Add
    11:08 - TikTok US New Entity 50% New Investors 200M US Users
    12:42 - Inferact $150M Seed $800M Valuation vLLM Commercialization
    13:16 - RadixArk $400M Valuation SGLang Commercial Push
    14:07 - Blue Origin TeraWave 6 Tbps 5,408 Satellites Q4 2027 Deployment
    15:15 - OpenAI Shopify Checkouts Jan 26 Launch 4% ChatGPT Fee
    16:24 - OpenAI API Revenue +$1B ARR in One Month $20B+ Total ARR
    16:51 - OpenAI Ads Testing Coming Weeks Go Plan Included
    17:31 - OpenAI ServiceNow 3-Year Enterprise Integration

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  • E243: Cerebras 2.8x valuation to $23B + strikes $10B deal with OpenAI; Skild $14B round; 1X new humanoid robot AI-model; Anthropic drops “Cowork”
    2026/01/16

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    00:00 - Intro
    00:08 - Cerebras Eyes $23B Post-Money as IPO Nears
    00:55 - Cerebras Lands $10B OpenAI Capacity Deal Through 2028
    01:29 - Skild’s $1.4B Series C Prices In $14B+ Robot Brain Ambition
    02:24 - Temporal Nears $5B in Talks as ARR Tops $100M
    03:00 - Parloa Jumps to $3B Valuation After $350M Series D
    04:08 - Higgsfield Hits $1.3B After Extending Series A to $130M
    05:06 - Torq Reaches $1.2B Valuation With $140M for AI SOC Automation
    05:49 - Etched Scores $500M at $5B as Investors Back Specialized Silicon
    06:21 - Harmattan Hits $1.4B a Year After Founding on $200M Series B
    07:13 - X to Open-Source Its Algorithm as Grok Rates 100M+ Posts a Day
    07:55 - Anthropic Ships HIPAA Claude as 22K Banner Clinicians Adopt
    08:52 - Anthropic’s Cowork Puts Claude in Your Files With Guardrails and Risk
    09:38 - OpenAI Leads Merge Labs Seed as Noninvasive BCI Raises $252M
    10:20 - OpenAI Buys Torch for $100M to Build a Unified Medical Memory
    11:05 - 1X Holds $10B Valuation as Neo Targets Homes With a World Model
    12:00 - ElevenLabs Hits $330M ARR as Growth Pace Accelerates
    12:50 - Erebor Raises $350M to Build a Regulated Crypto Bank
    13:52 - Replit Talks $400M Round at ~$9B as It Ships AI-Made iOS Apps

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  • E242: OpenAI raise at $830b; Anthropic raise at $350b; xAI raise at $230b; Databricks raise at $134b; + more
    2026/01/09

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    00:00 - Intro
    00:08 - xAI Lands a Massive $20B Round, $230B Valuation
    01:22 - xAI Financials Show Hypergrowth Economics With Losses Still Expanding
    02:51 - Grok for Business Targets Enterprise Wallet Share With Security and Admin Controls
    04:05 - Anthropic Signs Up a $10B Round, $350B Valuation
    05:07 - OpenAI Targets a $100B Raise, $830B Valuation
    05:51 - OpenAI Pushes Deeper Into Healthcare With ChatGPT Health
    06:45 - OpenAI’s New $50B Stock Compensation Program
    07:45 - Lambda Lines Up a Pre-IPO Raise, IPO in Next 12 Months
    08:43 - Databricks Raises Over $4B, $134B Valuation
    09:30 - Figure’s Adcock Launches New AI Lab, Hark, With $100M Personal Capital
    10:05 - Lovable Raises $330M, $6.6B Valuation, 267% Step-Up in Five Months
    10:58 - OpenEvidence Targets a $12B Valuation on 150M Annualized Ad Revenue and 90 Percent Gross Margins
    12:04 - Waymo Explores a $15B Raise With Valuation Talks at $100B
    12:48 - Rain Raises $250M at a $1.95B Valuation to Expand Stablecoin Cards Across 150 Countries
    13:26 - ServiceNow Buys Armis for $7.75B Cash After a Fresh $6.1B Pre-IPO Mark
    14:05 - Cursor Acquires Graphite and Reinforces a $38.5B Secondary Mark
    14:56 - Plaud Expands Hardware Line With a $179 NotePin S Ahead of CES 2026
    15:51 - Mobileye Buys Mentee Robotics for $900M and Expands the Physical AI Playbook
    16:42 - LMArena Reprices to $1.7B and Hits $30M Annualized Consumption in Under Four Months
    17:22 - Swap Commerce Raises $100M Six Months After Its $40M Series B
    17:51 - Discord Files Confidentially for IPO With Secondaries Pricing at $7B to $8B
    18:25 - Commonwealth Fusion Systems Builds a Digital Twin and Targets 19-Magnet Completion This Summer

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  • E241: SpaceX $800b tender and $1.5 trillion IPO, Disney into OpenAI for $1b, Boom Supersonic jet turbines for data centers, + more
    2025/12/12

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    00:00 - Intro
    00:06 - SpaceX Tender Offer & IPO Plans
    00:43 - SpaceX Revenue Outlook
    01:54 - Airwallex $330M Raise
    02:54 - Disney $1B OpenAI Investment
    03:53 - OpenAI Enterprise Adoption Surge
    04:54 - OpenAI GPT-5.2 Launch
    05:54 - OpenAI Hires Slack CEO as CRO
    06:28 - Meta Acquires Limitless
    07:50 - Harvey $160M Round
    08:44 - Cohere Enterprise Momentum
    09:38 - Overtone AI Dating Launch
    10:29 - Boom Supersonic Turbine Pivot
    11:38 - Revolut Employee Buyback
    12:42 - 1X Technologies EQT Deal
    13:42 - Port $100M Series C
    14:42 - Harness $240M Series E
    15:50 - Anthropic $21B Broadcom Orders
    16:48 - World Updates App with New Features

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  • E240: xAI $230B valuation, Databricks $134B valuation; Revolut $75B tender; Wealthfront IPO; raises from Physical Intelligence, Black Forest Labs, Moonshot AI, others
    2025/12/04

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    00:06 - Databricks $134B Primary at 32x 2025E Sales
    02:20 - Revolut $75B Tender (+56% vs Aug 2025)
    04:30 - Physical Intelligence (Pi) $5B Primary (+>2.5x in <1 Year)
    06:32 - Black Forest Labs $3.25B Series B (<2 Years Post-Launch)
    07:47 - Wealthfront IPO Targeting $2.05B
    09:15 - Moonshot AI Nearing $4B Round
    10:58 - X-energy $700M Series D; $1.4B in <1 Year
    12:44 - Celestial AI Acquired by Marvell for $5.5B
    14:31 - Canva Positioning for IPO In Few Years
    15:23 - Sierra $10B Valuation at 100x ARR
    17:11 - K2 Space Targeting $3B (+~4x YoY)
    18:39 - Anthropic Claude Opus 4.5 Launch
    21:00 - Anthropic Bun Acquisition For Claude Code
    22:58 - Anthropic IPO Preparation for 2026
    24:43 - OpenAI Shopping Research Tool
    26:24 - OpenAI Investor SoftBank Implies $756B Valuation
    26:59 - OpenAI Forecasts 2030 User & Revenue
    29:26 - OpenAI + Thrive Holdings Partnership
    30:38 - OpenAI Neptune Acquisition
    32:14 - Redwood Materials $6B Valuation; 5% Layoffs
    33:19 - xAI Targeting $230B Valuation
    34:36 - Fleet Space Lithium “District-Scale” Discovery
    36:07 - Runway Gen 4.5 Tops Video Arena
    37:35 - Vulcan Elements $620M DoD Contract

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