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Justin Ernest built a nearly four-hundred-million-dollar startup portfolio without ever raising a traditional venture fund. The Sabertooth VC founder tapped a captive network of limited partners to back names like Anthropic, Anduril, and SpaceX — proving that in today's market, the old fundraising playbook is increasingly optional.
Across the Pacific, China is making a statement of its own. Beijing is planning a two-hundred-ninety-five-billion-dollar AI data center buildout powered largely by domestic chips from Huawei. The scale is striking, and the deliberate pivot away from American semiconductor suppliers signals that the global AI infrastructure race is now very much a two-track competition.
And in a lighter corner of the industry, Conan O'Brien has found a new gig — hosting corporate training videos for an AI cybersecurity company. It sounds like a punchline, but the thinking is real: if you want employees to actually pay attention to security awareness content, maybe the answer is someone who spent decades making people laugh.
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