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Probook, an AI operating system for home services, announces $40M in funding from Sequoia and a16z, with claims of significant operational improvements for clients.

Brendan Foody, co-founder of AI talent platform Mercor, publicly accuses Sequoia of using dual-pricing valuation tricks where the lead investor gets a lower valuation while a higher headline price is announced, drawing pushback from Sequoia partner Shaun Maguire.

Commure announces $70M in new funding at a $7B valuation, led by General Catalyst with Sequoia and Morgan Stanley. The company has become one of the largest AI infrastructure platforms in healthcare, serving 500+ healthcare organizations with autonomous revenue cycle workflows.

Jim Fan released 《Robotics: Endgame》as a sequel to his previous speech 《Physical Turing Test》, proposing a roadmap to solve physical AGI by analogy to the success story of LLM.

Sequoia partner Julien Bek predicts AI will end the SaaS era; the next trillion-dollar winner will sell completed work, not software.