Upside
Your Elevator Ride to the Top of the Startup World
SpaceX Wants to Buy Cursor for $60 Billion. Plus: DeepSeek undercuts OpenAI at 1/8th the price, Big Tech axes 9,000 jobs in a single week, and Sora's $1M-a-day burn rate catches up with it.
OpenAI's $20B Bet on the Chip Startup That Wants to Dethrone Nvidia plus Meta raises VR prices (blame AI), Snap cuts 1,000 jobs, and a $3.5B gaming platform shuts down for good.
Musk announces chip factory, there's a new chauffeur app in NYC, and let's go asteroid fishing
Supabase hits $5B valuation by turning down big contracts, while Nordic founders take bold leaps in tech
Kalshi reaches $11B valuation with massive $1B funding round, as AI-native startups like Lightfield and Sphere hit the spotlight
A First-Year Associate Turns Legal Tech on Its Head – And Silicon Valley Loves It. Plus: Teen Founders and AI Redesigning Pesticides.
DeepMind Introduces Thinking Robots, While Juicebox and Telo Catch Investor Attention
Figure Secures $39B Valuation, Charting a Bold Path in Robotic Innovation; Meanwhile, AI Keeps Disrupting with Numeral's $35M Raise
Nvidia, Google, and Bill Gates fuel a $863M fusion power push, while Framer hits a $2B milestone
FieldAI banks $405M to teach robots new tricks, while Nuro and Group14 reel in serious cash too
Issue #61: Bluesky Takes Flight
Issue #60: GPT-5
