Every story we've published — 16 and counting. Tech, AI, venture, IPOs, and funding, with the VC take on each.
SpaceX raised $85.7B across 639M shares in the largest IPO in history, tripling Saudi Aramco's 2019 record. Priced at $135, it opened at $161 and now trades at $178 -- a 32% gain on the offer price that minted billions in day-one paper gains for early employees and secondary-market buyers.
Jun 15, 2026Three days after launch, the US government invoked national security authorities to force-disable a live frontier model -- a regulatory first that no founder or investor had priced in. Anthropic's ~$965B valuation now carries sovereign risk.
Jun 13, 2026Before the shutdown, the numbers were staggering: Fable 5 topped every public reasoning benchmark and Mythos 5 became the first model to clear 90% on the agentic-coding eval. This is the capability leap the industry was reacting to -- the regulatory drama is a separate story. For builders, the question is what these models unlock, and whether the next open-weight release closes the gap.
Jun 13, 2026Priced at $135, opened at $161, now at $178 -- a clean 32% return for IPO allocations in four trading days. Greenshoe exercised June 15, signaling massive institutional oversubscription.
Jun 12, 2026India's sovereign AI thesis is real: 1.4B people, government-subsidized domestic compute, and enterprises needing models trained on Indic languages and local regulatory frameworks. $234M at unicorn status makes Sarvam the clearest bet on AI nationalism outside of China.
Jun 12, 2026The 30-day pre-release review window gives the federal government a de facto veto on frontier model launches, as Anthropic just learned the hard way. Colorado's AI Act hitting June 30 adds state-level compliance on top.
Jun 10, 2026The two most valuable private AI companies -- OpenAI at ~$852B, Anthropic at ~$965B -- have both filed confidentially with the SEC. When they list, all six MANGOS companies will be public.
Jun 10, 2026Gemini 3.5 Pro, Claude Fable 5/Mythos 5, rumored Sonnet 4.8, and Grok 5 -- four frontier launches in a single month signals the arms race has entered a new phase where competitive moats are measured in weeks, not quarters.
Jun 10, 2026Hark raised a $700M Series A betting that frontier AI migrates from cloud to personal devices -- a thesis that strengthens every time OpenAI raises API prices. At $6B pre-revenue, investors are underwriting the hardware + AI convergence thesis at a scale unseen since Magic Leap.
Jun 10, 2026Modal is the picks-and-shovels winner of the AI boom -- serverless GPU compute that lets teams skip the infra pain entirely. Valuation nearly 5x'd since Series B as every company shipping AI features needs GPU access without a 6-month procurement cycle.
Jun 10, 2026Another $300M bet on the foundation model layer, but the window for new entrants is closing fast. At $4B, investors are paying frontier-lab multiples for a company that still needs to prove it can compete with labs spending $10B+ annually on training.
Jun 10, 2026Strip away the WWDC theater and this is a landmark commercial deal: Apple pays Google an estimated $3B+ annually to run Gemini behind Siri. It's the inverse of the search-default arrangement, and it sets the template for how non-lab giants will buy AI -- rent the frontier, own the distribution. Every enterprise procurement team should study the structure.
Jun 9, 2026