E196: Thinking Machines targets $10B valuation with $2B seed round; ByteDance revenue hits $155B in 2024; Anysphere(Cursor) revenue quadruples, eyes $10B valuation; Nuro raises $106M at $6B valuation; Base Power raises $200M to scale affordable home batte

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00:00 - Intro
00:08 - Thinking Machines Targets $10B Valuation with $2B Seed Round  
01:12 - ByteDance Revenue Hits $155B; Valuation Diverges  
02:15 - Anysphere Revenue Quadruples; Eyes $10B Valuation  
03:01 - Nuro Raises $106M at $6B Valuation  
03:51 - Base Power Raises $200M to Scale Affordable Home Batteries  
05:06 - Anthropic Launches Claude Max, Valued at $61.5B  
06:15 - Ripple Acquires Hidden Road for $1.25B  
07:13 - Canva Adds GenAI Tools; Valued at $37.9B  
08:19 - Electricity Demand for AI Surges Globally  
10:31 - OpenAI Rolls Out ChatGPT Memory Feature  
11:30 - Google Joins Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol  
12:43 - Safe Superintelligence Taps Google Cloud for Compute