📴 Undoing the damage: A judge has ordered federal agencies to “turn the funding spigots back on” after Trump froze congressionally authorized grants and contracts under Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act. Read More
❤️🩹 Privatize everything: Chapter, a Medicare advisory startup co-founded by Vivek Ramaswamy that has ties with Vice President J.D. Vance and Peter Thiel, has closed a $75 million funding round at a $1.5 billion valuation. A lot to unpack there. Read More
🇨🇳 Sinophobia galore: The Trump admin is reportedly looking for ways to kneecap China’s DeepSeek by limiting its ability to buy Nvidia’s AI chips, and potentially banning Americans from accessing its AI services. It’s part of the larger anti-China sentiment championed by the Trump admin. Read More
🍯 Like glue: Wasp wants to bring together the fragmented dev tooling landscape. The company has raised $3.7 million to expand its full-stack web app developer tool that acts as the glue between the different platforms developers are already using, like React and Node. Read More
✊ Fight the power: Former top US cybersecurity official Chris Krebs said he’s going to fight back against a federal investigation that Trump ordered on him after Krebs refused to tow the party line that the 2020 election was stolen. Krebs said the probe was about “the government pulling its levers to punish dissent.” Read More
🚐 HelloRivian: Rivian has its first commercial customer that’s not Amazon. HelloFresh, a meal-kit delivery company, has added 70 electric Rivian vans to its fleet. It’s a big deal for the EV maker, which ended its exclusivity deal with Amazon in November 2023. Read More
