Two former Benchmark investors are already trying to rewrite the rules of Silicon Valley by pitching an $800 million AI fund just months after striking out on their own. The audacity of bootstrapping such a massive vehicle so quickly should set off alarm bells for anyone who remembers how hype cycles hollow out Main Street More

Investors piled into Anthropic this week in a breathtaking Series H that raised roughly $65 billion and pushed the company’s valuation to about $965 billion, handing the Claude maker a higher private-market price tag than its better-known rival OpenAI. For hardworking Americans watching the scramble, that number is staggering — nearly a trillion dollars parked More

Cambridge’s city council last week voted to shut off and physically remove the ShotSpotter gunshot‑detection network, ordering the city manager and police to disable the system within 90 days — a reckless move that prioritizes political optics over public safety. This was not a unanimous decision; the council was narrowly split as activists cheered while More