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Venture capital, tech, and business news to start your day. Only the most relevant stories, with insights from the most relevant industry experts. Hosted by Jackson Fordyce. 10 minutes a day, 5 days a week.

Episode Date
"The Most Important Case Ever" - The Legality of Trump's Tariffs
Nov 04, 2025
ChatGPT Now Wants to Be Your AI Girlfriend
Oct 22, 2025
Bitcoin is up $11,000 in 5 Days -- Here's Why
Oct 02, 2025
Saudi Investors Just Bought EA for $55 Billion
Sep 30, 2025
WORKSLOP Crisis? 40% of Workers Received It Last Month
Sep 26, 2025
OpenAI Expands Stargate with 5 New Data Centers
Sep 24, 2025
Nvidia Plans to Invest $100B into OpenAI
Sep 23, 2025
Stop Believing Everything AI Tells You
Sep 12, 2025
The AI Advisor that Passed the CFP Exam with Ease...
Sep 09, 2025
Trump’s INSANE Gaza Plan: DISPLACE 2M Palestinians & Build a Tech Hub
Sep 02, 2025
Why Companies are Pulling Back on AI Experiments
Aug 29, 2025
The Fed is not Accounting for AI’s Pace, Gov’t Stakes in More Companies Coming
Aug 28, 2025
North Korean Fake IT Workers Infiltrate U.S. Companies, America’s Water Problem
Aug 22, 2025
Startups Using AI Are 3x More Likely to Grow -- Mercury Report 2025
Aug 19, 2025
He Never Came Home: How a 76-yr Old Man Was Tricked by Meta’s Flirty Chatbot
Aug 18, 2025
The MIT Fraud You've Never Heard of
Aug 15, 2025
Perplexity Offers Google $34.5 Billion for Chrome Browser
Aug 13, 2025
Is Agentic Shopping Right Around the Corner?
Aug 12, 2025
ChatGPT 5 is Here
Aug 08, 2025
$100B Question: Can Apple Actually Manufacture in the USA?
Aug 07, 2025
Palantir Wins $10 Billion, 10-Year Army Contract
Aug 06, 2025
The Rise of Austin: America’s Next Big Startup Capital
Aug 04, 2025
Did Figma Just Have the Greatest Opening Day Ever?
Aug 01, 2025
China’s $564 Billion AI Push Aims to Cut Out the West
Jul 31, 2025
A Second Massive Breach Has Hit the Tea App
Jul 30, 2025
Tesla Signs $16.5 Billion Chip Contract with Samsung
Jul 29, 2025
Everyone is Afraid of AI Robots -- Here’s Why They're Wrong
Jul 28, 2025
Trump’s AI Action Plan, Microsoft SharePoint Hack, Europe AI “Sputnik Moment”
Jul 25, 2025
How OpenAI’s $500B Stargate Plan has Entirely Sidelined its Partner SoftBank
Jul 23, 2025
CEO Interview: How Medium Nearly Went Bankrupt, and the Fight Back to Profit
Jul 22, 2025
Netflix is the First Major Studio to Use GenAI, Says it was 10x Faster than VFX
Jul 21, 2025
Meet ChatGPT Agent, OpenAI’s Next Game Changer
Jul 18, 2025
$47M for Firestorm’s 3D-Printed Drone Tech, AI Startups See Funding Surge
Jul 17, 2025
Trump, McCormick’s $90B AI + Energy Push in PA, An Appeal for Mobile Voting
Jul 16, 2025
Rainmaker x Atmo Team Up to Cloud Seed with AI, Grok for Government
Jul 15, 2025
Devin AI May Replace Thousands on Wall St, Trump’s Mining Bill Kills Demand
Jul 14, 2025
Elon Unveils Grok 4, Pentagon Invests in Rare Earths, and Amazon Considers Anthropic Investment
Jul 11, 2025
Nvidia Hits $4T in Market Cap and Trump Unveils New Tariff Rates
Jul 10, 2025
The Moa Bird Is Returning from Extinction, Trump's Bill Effects VC, and Apple's COO steps down
Jul 09, 2025
Elon Musk Starts New Political Party, Meta Poaches Apple AI Talent, and Texas Flood Recap
Jul 08, 2025
Ford CEO: AI to Replace Half of White-Collar Jobs, National AI Rules Coming?
Jul 07, 2025
Peter Thiel & Palmer Luckey Launch a Bank, AI Apps Critically Vulnerable
Jul 03, 2025
Senate Opposes AI Bill 99-1, Figma IPO, Cloudflare to Charge Scraping AI Bots
Jul 02, 2025
Microsoft's AI Diagnoses 4x Better Than Doctors, Zuck Launches Superintelligence Labs, and Oracle Signs $30B Cloud Contract
Jul 01, 2025
Zuck and Sam Altman go toe-to-toe, Trump finds a buyer for TikTok, and a June Recap
Jun 30, 2025
Musk vs. Bezos: The Race for Space
Jun 27, 2025
OpenAI Warns About China, Bumble Lays Off 30% of Staff, and Spirit Wants JetBlue/United Deal Blocked
Jun 26, 2025
OpenAI's legal troubles continue, Trump's chip tariff receives blowback, and Delphi raises $16M in Series A funding
Jun 25, 2025
American Military Bases Hit by Iran, Zuck Chases Top AI Talent, and WhatsApp Banned in The House
Jun 24, 2025
America Strikes Iran: Operation Midnight Hammer
Jun 23, 2025
Europe’s Last-Ditch Effort to Stop Iran War, AI’s Existential Threat to Publishers
Jun 20, 2025
The Pope Has Thoughts on AI, Pro-Israel Hackers Hit Iran Crypto Exchange
Jun 19, 2025
OpenAI’s First $200M DoD Contract, Tensions Rise Between Microsoft/OpenAI
Jun 18, 2025
Trump’s Gold $47 Smartphone, Frontier Valley to Supercharge U.S. Robotics
Jun 17, 2025
Four of Silicon Valley’s Top Execs Have Just Enlisted in the U.S. Army
Jun 16, 2025
Pentagon Workers Getting AI Copilot, Israel Attacks Iran’s Nuclear Sites
Jun 13, 2025
Disney is Suing Midjourney, Trump Says US-China Trade Deal is ‘Done’
Jun 12, 2025
Zuck Builds Secret AGI Dream Team, Snap Drops AR Specs
Jun 11, 2025
Waymos Torched in LA Riots, Whole Foods’ Distributor Hit by Cyberattack
Jun 10, 2025
Apple WWDC25 Expected to Disappoint, Elon/Donald Messy Breakup Recap
Jun 09, 2025
Wrexham Eyes $475M value, AI Deepfakes Breach Banks, Anduril $2.5B Raise
Jun 06, 2025
Amazon Pours $10B in NC, Utah’s Nuclear Future Ignites, Meta Saves IL Plant
Jun 05, 2025
Dire Wolf Howls Incoming, Deel Countersuing Rippling, Trying Something New
Jun 04, 2025
xAI Seeks $113B Valuation, Chime Targets $11B IPO, Big AI Commoditizing
Jun 03, 2025
Big Brother Palantir, BI Cuts 21% of Staff, Google’s Landmark Antitrust Case
Jun 02, 2025
Zuck & Luckey reunite, NYT & Amazon sign first AI deal, Entry jobs taken by AI
May 30, 2025
SpaceX on Mars by 2026, Public unveils custom indexes, Nvidia beats earnings
May 29, 2025
Trump threatens 25% iPhone tax, Taiwan’s drone deficit, Anthropic AI blackmail
May 27, 2025
6,800 Harvard students barred, OpenAI UAE megahub, EU €40M defense push
May 23, 2025
Jony & Sam, Trump’s $175B Golden Dome, OpenAI Lands $11.6B Texas Deal
May 22, 2025
NVIDIA Taiwan HQ, DoD Powers Drone Swarms, Creator Ventures $45M Fund
May 21, 2025
Venture Daily is Back: Trump Re-elected, Defense is HOT, AI Making Money?
May 19, 2025
Disney 🥂 Epic Games for $1.5B, Apple Vision Pro 📈, Can US-China 🤝 on AI?
Feb 12, 2024
US Senators Berate Zuckerberg, Startup Diversity Report, Vertical AI Surging
Feb 01, 2024
Techno-Optimism Goes Political, Neuralink Success, $300B Dry Powder
Jan 31, 2024
FTC v. Big Tech, Innovation Endeavors $630M Fund, TechCrunch Layoffs
Jan 30, 2024
Fake Biden Robocall, Brex Cuts 20% of Staff, AI Industrial Complex
Jan 26, 2024
Harpoon Ventures Raises $125M, SEC Probing AI Use, 2024 Marketing Trends
Dec 14, 2023
xAI Seeks $1B, Meta + IBM Urge Open Source AI, Early Stage Still Struggling
Dec 12, 2023
6.9M 23andMe Users Hacked, VC in the Heartland, OpenView Shutdown
Dec 06, 2023
Spotify Lays Off 1500, SEVA Raises $85M, AI Growing in Healthcare
Dec 05, 2023
AI Investing at the Growth Stage: A Conversation with CapitalG’s Jill Chase
Nov 28, 2023
Altman Returns, 3 VC Funds Raise Huge, PE Secondaries Do Meh
Nov 27, 2023
Sam Altman Fired. VCs Say We’ll Never See a Board Structure Like This Again.
Nov 21, 2023
Nvidia’s Fastest Chip, Shein IPO on the Horizon, Biden & Xi Jinping Meet
Nov 16, 2023
Ep 100: Lux Capital, IVP, and Insight Partners Talk Responsible AI Protocol
Nov 15, 2023
Expansive CA VC Diversity Law, Nepal Bans Tik Tok, Venture Daily on Tik Tok
Nov 14, 2023
Economy Forecast for 2024, Physicians Stuck Log-Recording, Humane’s AI Pin
Nov 13, 2023
WeWork Goes Bankrupt, VC Valuations in Q3, Meta Sets Rules for Deepfakes
Nov 10, 2023
Amazon Offers $9 Healthcare, AI’s Big Peril, Finance Regulation for Big Tech
Nov 09, 2023
Fearless Fund Suit Returns, US-China Confront Climate, IBM $500M AI Pledge
Nov 08, 2023
Landmark UK AI Summit, Klarna Eyeing IPO, ChatGPT Now Customizable
Nov 07, 2023
What Biden’s AI Order Gets Wrong, The Crypto Comeback, Ivy Endowments 📉
Nov 06, 2023
SBF Found Guilty, Ex/Ante $33M Raise, ‘Pharmageddon’ Walgreens Walkout
Nov 03, 2023
The GenAI Pricing Game, Take-Private Bails Out PE, Accel’s Euroscape 2023
Nov 02, 2023
First US AI Order, Google CEO Takes the Stand, SEC Cyber Attack Disclosure
Oct 31, 2023
IPO Disappointment, UN Gathers AI World, Google $26B for Search Default
Oct 30, 2023
Boston’s VC Resiliency, UK Waits to Regulate AI, No Big Tech AI Profits
Oct 27, 2023
CA Suspends Cruise Taxis, Healthcare Worker Abuse Doubles, SBF Will Speak
Oct 26, 2023
Biden’s Clean Jobs Boost, Women More Likely to Lose Jobs, States Sue Meta
Oct 25, 2023
Daunting Lawsuits for VC, Anthropic’s AI Constitution, Web Summit CEO Resigns
Oct 24, 2023
Venture Daily x Antler, AI Needs Regulation, Founder Sentiment Report
Oct 23, 2023
The 0 to 1 Founder Journey: A Conversation with Ansaf Kareem
Oct 23, 2023
War Hurts Markets, NYC Firms Back Diversity, Sequoia Under Scrutiny
Oct 19, 2023
Andreessen’s Manifesto, Sony’s Fund in Africa, Tucker Carlson VC-Backed
Oct 18, 2023
Biotech M&A Erupting, Biden’s $7B Hydrogen Pledge, LinkedIn Layoffs
Oct 17, 2023
Microsoft’s $69B Deal, Israeli Workers Go to War, No IPO for OnlyFans
Oct 16, 2023
AI Surging in NYC, Tik Tok v. Montana, Sequoia China’s Global Expansion
Oct 13, 2023
Birkenstock Opens Down 12%, AI Hype vs. Profits, VC Equilibrium in Asia
Oct 12, 2023
Bessemer Health Tech Report, Mental Health Day, World Economy Grows
Oct 11, 2023
Diversity Disclosure Bill Passed, VC for Israel, Ozempic Killing Appetites
Oct 10, 2023
Israel at War, AI's Guadrails are Broken, 23andMe User Data Leak
Oct 09, 2023
History’s Largest Healthcare Strike, New Human Jobs, CEOs Invest in AI
Oct 06, 2023
Q3 Deals Way Down, 10-yr Climate Obstacles, $2B More for Anthropic
Oct 05, 2023
FB + IG to Charge $14/mo, VC Winter Ending, Atomico $1.1B Raise
Oct 04, 2023
VC’s New Big Bank, Heirloom Declines Oil Money, SBF Trial Begins
Oct 03, 2023
CA Race/Gender Disclosure Bill, Hyperreal Metaverse, Epic Games Cuts
Oct 02, 2023
IPO Momentum Swelling, US States Regulate AI, X to Turn Profit in 2024
Sep 29, 2023
OpenAI Seeks $90B Value, Birkenstock IPO Roadshow, Peak Oil Is Near
Sep 28, 2023
FTC Sues “Monopolistic” Amazon, Party Round Decline, UAE Next in AI?
Sep 27, 2023
What’s Up with Gen Z, Amazon 🤝 Anthropic, On-Demand Startups Fade
Sep 26, 2023
UN Debates AI, LP Tension with ‘ESG’, 10% of NBA’s Warriors For Sale
Sep 25, 2023
GGV Splits with China, Cisco’s $28B Deal, Instacart & Arm Lose Steam
Sep 22, 2023
All X Users Will Pay, AI Regulation Plan, Goldman’s $15B PE Fund
Sep 21, 2023
Klaviyo NYSE Debut, DeepMind Predicts Gene Mutations, AI Security
Sep 20, 2023
Instacart Nasdaq Debut, Big Banks v. Big Tech, State of the Fake Report
Sep 19, 2023
Databricks Worth $43B, Cyberattack on Vegas, TikTok Fined $368M
Sep 18, 2023
Arm IPO Up 25%, Musk/Zuck at A.I. Insight Forum, Healthcare and AI
Sep 15, 2023
LPs Want VCs to Rightsize, CalSTRS x Sapphire, Coca-Cola’s AI Soda
Sep 14, 2023
Google Antitrust Trial, $100M+ Raises Down, Binance US CEO Departs
Sep 13, 2023
Instacart’s Valuation Slashed, Google’s DFP, a16z Discrimination Lawsuit
Sep 12, 2023
24 Election vs. AI, Goldman’s $100M to Small Business, Apple Hacked
Sep 11, 2023
U.S. Battery Deal Boom, PE Lawsuit Against SEC, China Bans iPhones
Sep 08, 2023
First Ever Saudi/Israeli Deal, Return of 2% World, YC Demo Day Drama
Sep 07, 2023
Sequoia Scrutinized by LPs, AI Regulation Agency, Arm Prices IPO
Sep 06, 2023
A Conversation with Casetext CEO Jake Heller & USV’s John Buttrick
Sep 05, 2023
Google’s SynthID Can Spot AI Images, New AC Tech, YC Too Hyped?
Sep 01, 2023
Retail Investing Exploding, Platform Teams Cut, Bidding Battle for Yellow
Aug 31, 2023
Bitcoin's Big Win, TechCrunch Acquires StrictlyVC, GenAI’s Jobs Impact
Aug 30, 2023
Economy Recovering?, 2021 IPOs Flop, $1.2B Carbon Removal Pledge
Aug 29, 2023
Toxic Culture in VC, Ramp Raises $300M, Instacart & Klaviyo IPO
Aug 28, 2023
Robotaxi Chaos in SF, IRA Valuable for Climate Tech, Bluevine IPO
Aug 25, 2023
Foreign Spies in Space Companies, AI Chip Shortage, EU VCs Struggle
Aug 24, 2023
Global AI Regulation, Newsrooms Make AI Rules, Subway Gets Buyer
Aug 23, 2023
Arm Files IPO, Corporate VCs Selling Assets, Boston is the New VC Hub
Aug 22, 2023
Liability for ChatBot Piracy, VC Generalism Wins, OpenAI’s Acquisition
Aug 21, 2023
IRA Enables $220B in Cleantech, VC is a Money Waste, $5B SBA Loans
Aug 18, 2023
Campaign Ad Deep Fakes, More Biotech M&A, AI Skills on Résumés
Aug 17, 2023
Bloated Accelerator Market, IPO Pause, GPT-4 to Moderate Content
Aug 16, 2023
Driverless Taxis in SF, Startups Dying, Saudi Arabia/UAE Buy AI Chips
Aug 15, 2023
Fearless Fund Responds, Bankman-Fried Jailed, DEF CON AI Hacking
Aug 14, 2023
'ESG' Term is Dying, Top Startups Eye Profitability, $8.5B Luxury Merger
Aug 11, 2023
Biden Bans China AI Investments, VC Firm Layoffs, WeWork NoWork
Aug 10, 2023
$2B ESPN BET Deal, Distrust of AI in US, UMG’s Deepfake Music Deal
Aug 09, 2023
Fearless Fund Sued, New PE Investor Incentives, $1T Climate Transition
Aug 08, 2023
Extreme Weather Forecasting, HackerOne Layoffs, Musk v. Zuck Update
Aug 07, 2023
LK-99 Superconductor, Unicorns in Trouble, Apple Addresses AI
Aug 04, 2023
AI Cyber Scams, Climate VCs Dread Election, Big 4 Fight Audit Rules
Aug 03, 2023
NATO’s $1B VC Fund, China’s Chip Tech Issues, Birkenstock’s $10B IPO
Aug 02, 2023
New SEC Cyber Rules, Crypto Bills Advance to House, FB Polarization
Jul 31, 2023
The AI Arms Race with China: A Conversation with Tomasz Tunguz
Jul 28, 2023
AI Frontier Model Forum, GIC Sours on PE, Netflix’s $900k AI Job
Jul 27, 2023
How AI Makes Money, Valhalla $66M Raise, New Senate Rule on China
Jul 26, 2023
Twitter is X, Social Apps Sued by Schools, Credit Suisse Fined $338M
Jul 25, 2023
AI Safety Pledge, Climate Law Profits China, Andreessen on ChatGPT
Jul 24, 2023
Deal Drought Over?, FedNow Introduced, China Investments Scrutiny
Jul 21, 2023
Congress Stock Trading Ban, FTC Warns Roll-Ups, Thursday Triple Play
Jul 20, 2023
Meta’s Llama 2 Rivals ChatGPT, OpenAI’s News Deal, Threads Plateaus
Jul 19, 2023
ARK Twitter Write-Down, Recession Unlikely, Paradigm Hires Grieve
Jul 18, 2023
Actors Against AI, Startups Face Selling, FTC Fails to Block Microsoft
Jul 17, 2023
Inequality in Black VC Funding, FTC Probes OpenAI, New LP Reluctance
Jul 14, 2023
Inflation Drops to 3%, Musk announces xAI, Cybersecurity Down 63%
Jul 13, 2023
AI Threatens Jobs, Sapphire’s $1B AI Pledge, Microsoft’s $75B Deal
Jul 12, 2023
Celebrities Suing OpenAI, Cell Location Data Ban, Anti-ESG Sentiment
Jul 11, 2023
Robots Are Here, Venture Slump May Get Worse, Presidio Attracts VCs
Jul 10, 2023
Inordinate Tech Layoffs for Women, ChatGPT User Dip, Threads Shines
Jul 07, 2023
Women Still 13% of VC, Q2 Funding Down, Biden Blocked from Socials
Jul 06, 2023
Meta Reveals Threads, Google’s AI Internet Scrape, Vision Pro Limits
Jul 05, 2023
Bitcoin ETFs, Manufacturing Shrinking, ChatGPT “Awful” at Stock Picks
Jul 04, 2023
New Data Privacy Laws, Climate Down 40%, Twitter Use Limits
Jul 03, 2023
Twitter 2.0, Inflection Raises $1.3B, This Week’s Roundup
Jun 30, 2023
AI Hype Dissension, Pitchbook’s Grim Outlook Report, China Chip Ban
Jun 29, 2023
AI Regulation, Musk v. Zuck, Private Credit Expansion
Jun 28, 2023
Databricks to Acquire MosaicML, ESG Politicized, Stability AI Turnover
Jun 27, 2023
FDIC Backstops Tech Giants, Wagner Insurrection, IRL CEO Misconduct
Jun 26, 2023