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AI Devices, Midjourney’s Spas and Snap’s Flop-sicles

By Jemima McEvoy · Jun 20, 2026 8:01am PDT

Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: The brains behind Bernie’s AI sovereign wealth fund? A Silicon Valley law professor • The Takeaway: How I learned to love Mark Rober• E-commerce: The fast-growing Thiel-backed startup defying a creator economy slowdown• Plus, Recommendations—our weekly pop culture picks: “Foul... Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: The brains behind Bernie’s AI sovereign...

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The Law Professor Behind Bernie’s AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Idea

By Eli Rosenberg · Jun 20, 2026 7:00am PDT · 6 comments

A couple of weekends ago, Sarah Polcz, a University of California, Davis, law professor, and her husband, Adam Brown, a top scientist at Google’s DeepMind, hosted a party at their Portola Valley home that had all the trappings of a geeky good time. One guest piloted a drone that rained down ice cream bars on the kids in attendance. At the... A couple of weekends ago, Sarah Polcz, a University of California, Davis, law professor, and her...

Mantis VC co-founders Alex Pall and Andrew Taggart of The Chainsmokers. Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images

The Chainsmokers’ VC Firm Mantis Raising $100 Million Fund

By Julia Hornstein and Katie Roof · Jun 19, 2026 12:13pm PDT

The Chainsmokers are back. They released new songs in May—and are raising a new venture fund.Their firm Mantis VC is raising its fourth fund, an unofficial milestone that graduates them from emerging managers to just regular old VCs. The Chainsmokers are back. They released new songs in May—and are raising a new venture fund....

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CoinDesk Revenue Slowed Before Sale to Bullish

By Aidan Ryan · Nov 29, 2023 10:34am PST

Barry Silbert’s Digital Currency Group announced last week that it sold its crypto news subsidiary CoinDesk to the crypto exchange Bullish. Silbert said in a tweet that the sale made CoinDesk, which DCG bought for $500,000 in 2016, “one of our best investments of all time,” but the sale price was not disclosed and could not be learned.What is... Barry Silbert’s Digital Currency Group announced last week that it sold its crypto news...

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao leaves the U.S. District Court on Nov. 21 in Seattle. Photo by David Ryder/Getty.

One Binance Saga Comes to a Close

By Aidan Ryan · Nov 22, 2023 9:15am PST · 2 comments

Just when it felt like crypto could coast into Thanksgiving with OpenAI drama dominating headlines, U.S. officials barged in with a settlement in long-running investigations into Binance.The deal is on one hand a seismic shift for the world’s biggest crypto exchange. (You can view our updated Binance org chart here.) Its founder Changpeng Zhao... Just when it felt like crypto could coast into Thanksgiving with OpenAI drama dominating...