Early-stage venture firm A* Capital just took the wraps off its $450 million Fund III.
Dear Hope Student,
[[{“value”:” Study Abroad. I always planned to study abroad. As time went on, though, I continued to fall more in love with Hope College, and the thought of leaving friends, family, and the beauty of Dimnent Chapel became hard. But I am so grateful for the community of people who processed with me and encouraged me to spend a semester…
Former Tesla exec and Heron Power CEO Drew Baglino has founded a heat pump startup
Sadi Thermal Machines is Drew Baglino’s second startup since leaving Tesla in 2024.
Musk mulled handing OpenAI to his children, Altman testifies
OpenAI’s CEO recalls a “particularly hair-raising” conversation with the SpaceX founder.
MILEstone Goals
[[{“value”:” Something you may remember from my first blog, “Down Under and to the Left,” was how I mentioned meeting so many friends through running and joining a run club. Somewhere along the way, we all decided that before our trip ended, we wanted to complete a half-marathon together. We knew it wouldn’t be fast, competitive, or even remotely easy…
Anthropic warns investors against secondary platforms offering access to its shares
The company named Open Doors Partners, Unicorns Exchange, Pachamama Capital, Lionheart Ventures, Hiive, Forge Global, Sydecar and Upmarket as companies that are not authorized to provide access to buy or sell its shares.
Report: Google and SpaceX in talks to put data centers into orbit
Google and SpaceX are in talks to build data centers in orbit, pitching space as the future home for AI compute, even as costs today remain far higher than on the ground.
Everything Google announced at its Android Show, from Googlebooks to vibe-coded widgets
Google unveiled its new AI-first Googlebooks laptops, more agentic Gemini features, vibe-coded Android widgets, Gemini in Chrome, refreshed Android Auto, and more ahead of I/O.
Google’s ‘Create My Widget’ feature will let you vibe code your own widgets
The new feature will first launch on the latest Samsung Galaxy and Google Pixel phones this summer.
The AI legal services industry is heating up. Anthropic is getting in on the action.
As the AI legal services industry heats up, Anthropic is launching its own suite of features designed to assist law firms.