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OpenAI is fending off lawsuits after teens bypassed guardrails, while elsewhere a UK drone startup grabs $11M, Helsinki raises €7.5M for AI cancer tech, and Glid wins Startup Battlefield with logistics so slick they’d make FedEx blush.
StrictlyVC’s Palo Alto finale is packed as founders and VCs try to predict the future—assuming Michael Burry vs. Nvidia, the feud no one asked for, doesn’t tank it first.
Video pick: THIS Could Finally End Misinformation (seriously)
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Six bullets of updates
🚨 Families sue OpenAI after teens bypass guardrails and receive harmful guidance from ChatGPT, as the company denies responsibility.
🚁 UK startup secures a total of $11M to expand drone data and AI capabilities after extending its seed round.
🚚 Glid clinches Startup Battlefield 2025 with tech that streamlines logistics, boosting efficiency by 30% for supply chains.
🤝 Top founders and VCs will unpack the future of tech at StrictlyVC’s sold-out Palo Alto finale this Wednesday.
🧬 Helsinki startup secures €7.5M to scale its AI-powered cancer platform globally.
🏗️ Enterprise architecture is helping orgs adapt faster to AI-driven changes—74% see increased alignment between IT and strategy.
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Billion-dollar rounds? In This economy?
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In 2025, U.S. AI funding has already matched—and in many ways surpassed—2024’s record pace, with dozens of companies raising rounds of $100 million or more and many securing multiple large raises within the same year. The biggest deals span AI infrastructure, healthcare, agents, and frontier research, with standout mega-rounds from OpenAI ($40B), Anthropic ($16.5B across two rounds), Anysphere ($900M and $2.3B), Reflection AI ($2B), Thinking Machines Lab ($2B), and Cerebras Systems ($1.1B).
Healthcare and enterprise AI remain major magnets for capital, as do emerging areas like coding agents, science superintelligence, and AI-driven legal and search tools. Overall, 2025 continues the explosive investment trend seen in 2024, signaling sustained—and accelerating—momentum across the AI sector.
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THIS Could Finally End Misinformation (seriously)
What’s true on the internet anymore? 🧠 From Yellow Journalism to AI-generated “news anchors,” trust in media has collapsed — and artificial intelligence might be our only shot at fixing it. This episode traces how truth broke online and explores how tools like C2PA and ChatGPT could actually help rebuild it.
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The AI Race Just Went Nuclear — Own the Rails.
Meta, Google, and Microsoft just reported record profits — and record AI infrastructure spending:
Meta boosted its AI budget to as much as $72 billion this year.
Google raised its estimate to $93 billion for 2025.
Microsoft is following suit, investing heavily in AI data centers and decision layers.
While Wall Street reacts, the message is clear: AI infrastructure is the next trillion-dollar frontier.
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Michael Burry vs. Nvidia: the drama no one asked for but everyone’s watching
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Michael Burry, the investor behind The Big Short, is openly waging a campaign against Nvidia, arguing the AI boom is a bubble propped up by distorted accounting, overstated GPU lifespans, and demand he claims is artificially financed. After deregistering his fund to speak freely, he’s using a fast-growing Substack to rally investors around his bearish thesis—backed by over $1 billion in put options against Nvidia and Palantir.
Nvidia has fired back with a detailed memo disputing his numbers, but the clash has sparked a broader debate about whether AI is transformative or dangerously overhyped. With historical parallels to critics who helped accelerate collapses at Enron and Lehman, the question now is whether Burry is a canary in the coal mine—or whether his influence could help trigger the very downturn he’s predicting.