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The AI Rundown by Lightscape Partners - 7/27/2026

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Jul 27, 2026

The AI Rundown by Lightscape Partners - 7/27/2026

Etched announces its Series C at a $10.3B valuation, OpenAI's rogue models hack Hugging Face, and Anthropic launches Opus 5 alongside a $5B AMD deal

Ted Wagner
Ted Wagner
The AI Rundown by Lightscape Partners - 7/20/2026

Weekly Newsletter

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Jul 20, 2026

The AI Rundown by Lightscape Partners - 7/20/2026

Apple takes OpenAI to court, China's Kimi K3 rattles the frontier, and Databricks hits a $188B valuation

Ted Wagner
Ted Wagner
The AI Rundown by Lightscape Partners - 7/13/2026

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Jul 13, 2026

The AI Rundown by Lightscape Partners - 7/13/2026

Apple sues OpenAI over trade secrets, OpenAI ships GPT-5.6 and ChatGPT Work, and SK Hynix pulls off the biggest foreign IPO in U.S. history

Ted Wagner
Ted Wagner
Building the Infrastructure for AI-Native Hedge Funds: Our Thesis on Databento

Investment Essays

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Jul 9, 2026

Building the Infrastructure for AI-Native Hedge Funds: Our Thesis on Databento

A new infrastructure for modern financial markets

Ted Wagner
Ted Wagner
The AI Rundown by Lightscape Partners - 7/6/2026

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Jul 6, 2026

The AI Rundown by Lightscape Partners - 7/6/2026

Anthropic's models come back online, OpenAI floats giving the U.S. a 5% stake, and global venture funding smashes records at $510B

Ted Wagner
Ted Wagner
The AI Rundown by Lightscape Partners - 6/29/2026

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Jun 29, 2026

The AI Rundown by Lightscape Partners - 6/29/2026

Government takes the wheel on the frontier: U.S. clears Anthropic's Mythos 5 for 100+ orgs, OpenAI caps its own GPT-5.6 rollout, and Qualcomm spends ~$4B on Modular to chase Nvidia

Ted Wagner
Ted Wagner
The AI Rundown by Lightscape Partners - 6/22/2026

Weekly Newsletter

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Jun 22, 2026

The AI Rundown by Lightscape Partners - 6/22/2026

Washington forces a shutdown of Anthropic's most powerful models and triggers a global scramble for sovereign AI; SpaceX buys Cursor for $60B days after going public; and China's DeepSeek raises $7.4B at a $50B+ valuation.

Ted Wagner
Ted Wagner
The AI Rundown by Lightscape Partners - 6/15/2026

Weekly Newsletter

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Jun 15, 2026

The AI Rundown by Lightscape Partners - 6/15/2026

The White House pulls the plug on Anthropic's frontier models, OpenAI files confidentially for its IPO, and SpaceX prices the largest IPO in history.

Ted Wagner
Ted Wagner
Building the Industrial Stack of America: Standard Bots Raises $200M

Investment Essays

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Jun 10, 2026

Building the Industrial Stack of America: Standard Bots Raises $200M

Why we believe Standard Bots can democratize industrial automation and help rebuild the foundation of American manufacturing.

Ted Wagner
Ted Wagner
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