Jul 1, 2025 4 min read Daily Rundown

⛵ Tomorrow’s Guideline

Bite Service, Google Fusion Gamble, Zen for Rent

Good Morning, Early Adopters!

Autonomy rolls to your driveway, fusion promises your grid’s tomorrow, and mediators stand by—so, will you cruise, commit, or call for calm?

ROBOTAXI

AI Takes the Wheel, Again

👀 What’s the move: A Model Y rolled out of Austin’s Gigafactory and found its buyer’s curb with zero humans or remote puppeteers, one day before Musk’s self-imposed deadline. He posted the 30-minute joy-ride video and yelled “FULLY autonomous!” on X.

💡 Why it’s not boring: Deliver-to-door beats the shaky robotaxi debut and tees up a logistics wedge—proof FSD can finish a real-world route while the passenger fleet still needs chaperones. It also throws shade at Waymo’s quiet highway lead and dares regulators to update the scoreboard.

⛵ What to try next:

Stress-test autonomy in low-risk delivery corridors before handing it your customer experience.
Draft “swap-in human” contingencies—because the board will ask where the kill switch hides when the ego goes off-route.

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ENERGY

Google Bets the Farm on Fusion

👀 What’s the move: Alphabet signed the first corporate PPA for fusion power—200 MW from MIT spin-off Commonwealth Fusion’s ARC pilot in Virginia, enough juice for a small city, slated online in the early 2030s.

💡 Why it’s not boring: With data-crunching AI centers guzzling watts, Google’s hedging long-term on zero-waste fusion. It forces utilities to sweat and sets a precedent for tech giants to book electrons before the physics is solved.

⛵ What to try next:

Draft exit clauses for “science project” PPAs—protect budgets if break-even remains fiction.
Insist on quarterly fusion milestones in supply contracts to keep hype tied to hard data.

LIST

Tech Feud Fixers: 52 Mediators, Zero Drama (We Hope)

👀 What’s the move: SVAMC unveiled its 2025 Tech List®, a peer-reviewed roster of 52 elite arbitrators and mediators focused exclusively on complex technology disputes.

💡 Why it’s not boring: As AI and cloud titans volley IP and contract battles, having a black-belt neutral on speed-dial can turn red-ink lawsuits into handshake settlements—saving time, money, and PR facepalms.

⛵ What to try next:

Book a briefing with a top-listed neutral before your next high-stakes launch.
Audit your ADR clauses now—make sure your go-to mediator isn’t three time-zones (or billable hours) away when chaos hits.

STARTUP SPOT

🩺 Abridge
"Your AI medical scribe."
Ambient AI that transforms doctor-patient conversations into structured clinical notes in real-time. Fully embedded in Epic workflows — from Haiku to Hyperdrive without leaving the EHR.
→ Dr. Shiv Rao, practicing cardiologist & ex-UPMC investor. $300M Series E at $5.3B valuation (June 2025) — doubled in 4 months. Time's 100 Most Influential AI, Mass General Brigham partnership.

🤖 Decagon
"10x customer service agent."
Enterprise AI agents that go beyond chatbots—handling complex business logic, refunds, and escalations across every channel. Centralized intelligence layer defines workflows, knowledge, and brand voice once, applies everywhere.
→ Jesse Zhang (Harvard) & Ashwin Sreenivas, co-founders. $231M total raised, $131M Series C at $1.5B valuation (June 2025). Emerged from stealth just one year ago. Valuation quadrupled in months.

🚀 ClickHouse
"World's fastest analytics DB."
Real-time OLAP database built for blazing-fast analytical queries at scale. Born at Yandex in 2009 to power real-time analytics from non-aggregated streaming data — now serves Deutsche Bank, eBay, Spotify, Microsoft.
→ Alexey Milovidov (original creator, 2008) & team, spun out from Yandex 2021. $350M Series C at $6.35B valuation (May 2025), tripled in 4 years. Khosla-led, open-source with Cloud offering.

BAY AREA MEMOS

Levelpath Secures $55M Series B to Supercharge AI-First Procurement Platform.
Bolt and Klarna Forge Strategic Partnership to Embed BNPL into Bolt’s One-Click Checkout.
Netflix to Livestream NASA Plus Rocket Launches and Spacewalks This Summer.
Two Malaysian Innovations Advance to USD 1M Startup World Cup Grand Finale in Silicon Valley.
DoorDash and Flytrex Debut Drone Delivery of Papa John’s in Dallas-Fort Worth Suburbs.

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