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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Unicorn Watch

Billion-dollar valuations, down rounds, and the slow realization that a good pitch deck is not a business.

Unicorn

AI CEOs Declare Themselves World Leaders at Alps Summit

Nothing says 'we've earned a seat at the table' like showing up uninvited and refusing to leave.

💀💀💀💀  4/5 — Existentially Unmoored
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Unicorn

Elon's Rocket Company Now Worth More Than Amazon

In two trading days, SpaceX has achieved what Amazon took decades to build: a market cap, minus the revenue.

💀💀💀💀  4/5 — Catastrophically Bullish
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Unicorn

Amazon Kills Anthropic's Model in Days. Peak VC Theater.

A billion-dollar AI company discovered Friday night that shipping products requires permission slips from people who don't use them.

💀💀💀💀  4/5 — Government-Grade Whack-a-Mole
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Unicorn

Anthropic Nukes Own Business to Own the Libs

When U.S. national security policy forces a venture-backed AI company to eliminate its entire customer base rather than comply with export controls.

💀💀💀💀  4/5 — Regulatory Scorched Earth
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Unicorn

SpaceX Briefly Becomes Biggest Company Ever, Thanks to Math

A stock with fewer shares than a mid-cap biotech somehow validates trillion-dollar valuations.

💀💀💀💀  4/5 — Liquidity Theater
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Unicorn

Too Systemic to Fail: The Musk Doctrine Enters Its Final Form

When a CEO's immunity from consequences becomes a venture asset class, the market has officially broken.

💀💀💀💀  4/5 — Sovereignly Unaccountable
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VC

AI Investors Complete Three-Year Cycle From Doubt to Ecstasy to Regret

The venture capital industry has now experienced an entire emotional arc without anyone proving AI actually makes money.

💀💀💀💀  4/5 — Cyclically Delusional
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Unicorn

SpaceX Alums Launch $200M SPAC to Monetize 'Frontier Economies'

When aerospace talent meets public market desperation, buzzwords become business plans.

💀💀💀💀  4/5 — Cosmically Vague
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Unicorn

Google Admits It Has No Idea What AI Is Worth

Alphabet raises $80 billion because historical cash flow and actual revenue no longer matter when the future is imaginary.

💀💀💀💀  4/5 — Cosmically Unmoored
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Opinion

Box CEO Diagnoses Industry's AI Delusion, Ironically

Aaron Levie coins 'AI psychosis' to describe C-suite behavior he is presumably exempt from.

💀💀💀💀  4/5 — Self-Aware Delusion
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