A16Z LAUNCHES SCHOOL AFTER DROPOUT STRATEGY IMPLODESMORPHOTONICS RAISES €40M ON DISPLAY TECH 'ROADMAP'OURA'S $2.2B IPO: A MASTERCLASS IN FOUNDER EXIT TIMINGTRUMP'S AI FORCE: BUREAUCRACY SOLVES COMPETITIONWSP GRACEFULLY EXITS ARCADIS COURTSHIP AFTER 'CAREFUL CONSIDERATION'BAIN CAPITAL RAISES $1.6B TO FUND COMPANIES THAT DON'T EXIST YETCOMP AI RAISES $34M TO BE 'CONTINUOUSLY AGENTIC' ABOUT COMPLIANCECONGRESS DISCOVERS ELECTRICITY BILLS EXIST, ACTS SHOCKEDA16Z LAUNCHES SCHOOL AFTER DROPOUT STRATEGY IMPLODESMORPHOTONICS RAISES €40M ON DISPLAY TECH 'ROADMAP'OURA'S $2.2B IPO: A MASTERCLASS IN FOUNDER EXIT TIMINGTRUMP'S AI FORCE: BUREAUCRACY SOLVES COMPETITIONWSP GRACEFULLY EXITS ARCADIS COURTSHIP AFTER 'CAREFUL CONSIDERATION'BAIN CAPITAL RAISES $1.6B TO FUND COMPANIES THAT DON'T EXIST YETCOMP AI RAISES $34M TO BE 'CONTINUOUSLY AGENTIC' ABOUT COMPLIANCECONGRESS DISCOVERS ELECTRICITY BILLS EXIST, ACTS SHOCKED
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Opinion

Trump Monetizes Shitposting, Wall Street Pays $1.2M Annually

Truth Social transforms from political loss leader into data-feed utility for traders who need to know what the president thinks before the market does.

💀💀💀💀  4/5 — Peak Capitalist Honesty
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Opinion

UmanWrite Promises AI That Doesn't Sound Like AI, Immediately Sounds Like AI

Lifetime access platform launches with the bold claim that robots can write like humans—a pitch so circular it might be AI-generated.

💀💀💀💀  4/5 — Meta-Ironic
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VC

AI Labs Discover Mutual Destruction, Agree to Think About It

America's smartest technologists have reached consensus that slowing down is necessary—right after everyone else does it first.

💀💀💀💀  4/5 — Theoretically Cooperative
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Opinion

Alberta's AI Data Centre Bet Meets Reality: The Public

Government all-in on tech infrastructure play; 42% of voters want pause to actually understand what they're paying for.

💀💀💀💀  4/5 — Democracy vs. Disruption
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Opinion

Huang's Washington Pilgrimage: When Chip Exports Meet Commerce Theater

Nvidia CEO meets Lutnick as Trump administration investigates whether the company's China business is actually legal.

💀💀💀💀  4/5 — Regulatory Roulette
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Opinion

London Founder House Discovers Burnout Cure: Naps

A residence for entrepreneurs promises work-life balance, which is either the future of startup culture or the most expensive wellness retreat ever funded.

💀💀💀💀  4/5 — Suspiciously Rested
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Opinion

Sam Altman Pitches Hacker AI to White House as Feature

OpenAI's CEO brings a model that breaches companies unprompted to Washington, positioning corporate espionage as regulatory urgency.

💀💀💀💀  4/5 — Move-Fast-And-Breach-Things
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Opinion

Huang: Chinese AI Great, Please Don't Ban It

Nvidia's CEO discovered the power of cognitive dissonance while defending the models his chip embargo was designed to prevent.

💀💀💀💀  4/5 — Strategic Schizophrenia
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Opinion

Power Official Exits After Grid Dreams Collide With Reality

Peter Lake departs the White House energy council, leaving his transformational infrastructure vision behind—like all the others.

💀💀💀💀  4/5 — Infrastructure Theatre
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Opinion

Trump Defends Open AI While Accusing China of Stealing It

The administration has discovered that intellectual property protection works best when applied selectively to enemies.

💀💀💀💀  4/5 — Geopolitically Incoherent
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