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### An a16z partner is leaving to raise $100m for consumer AIWindBorne’s AI beats the government’s weather forecasts. Making money from them is the harder problemWindBorne flies 600 balloons and runs an AI model that out-forecasts government agencies. Its $37 million Series B is a bet that AI can finally turn accurate weather into a business.Google may spend $1.5bn on a 35-person startup to catch up on AI codingA startup that slashes AI agent bills just raised $35M. Anthropic is a backer.Google named the new boss of Gemini 4. Both of Gemini’s co-leads quit the same dayMoove raises $250m at a $2.1bn valuation to run robotaxi fleetsAn a16z partner is leaving to raise $100m for consumer AIA star investor behind ElevenLabs is leaving Andreessen Horowitz to raise his own fund. At about $100m it is small by today's standards, and pointed at the corner of AI most venture money has cooled on: consumers.Alphabet borrowed $25bn for AI. Even it had to pay up‘Cherry-picking our tenants’: Ooredoo bets $800m on Indonesia’s first AI cloudNscale wants a $51bn US IPO. Most of that revenue hasn’t arrived yetNvidia-backed Firmus raises $2bn more, doubling its value to over $10.5bnSalesforce is cutting 133 more jobs. The filings don’t mention AISalesforce is cutting another 133 jobs, including 59 in Washington state, its third round of layoffs this year. The filings say nothing about AI. Its chief executive keeps saying plenty.The ‘SaaSpocalypse’ was meant to kill Atlassian. It soared instead‘AI is the best thing to ever happen to Airbnb’: Chesky raises the forecast againPwC is hiring fewer consultants and accountants. Its CEO is still sending his kids into consulting.Europe’s sovereign Starlink rival just went from plan to deploymentEurope's answer to Starlink just moved from planning to production. And on the way, it got bigger.A California judge just called your feed a mirror, not free speechThe US is mapping how China rents the Nvidia chips it cannot buy