SpaceX exercises its option to purchase Cursor, in a win for xAI, a16z, Thrive, Google, and Nvidia. Governor Gavin Newsom treads a thin line between pro-tech policies and data center backlash. Vanta founder Christina Cacioppo dishes on compliance world drama on the podcast. VC funding for US AI startups far outpaces their international peers. A Wired exposé on Peter Thiel’s Dialog Society generates a lot of hand-wringing over not a lot of substance. Allbirds takes its AI rebrand seriously. Silicon Valley mourns the unexpected loss of Capital Factory founder Joshua Baer. OpenAI hires Noam Shazeer away from Google.
9:06 AM · Jun 19, 2026 · 1.6K Views
