a16z is launching a small, stage-matched community for finance leaders, with cohorts of eight CFOs meeting six times over a year. Each session mixes practical workshops—on planning, forecasting, AI tools and scaling finance teams—with candid peer discussions to build trust and lasting support networks.

Rillet’s AI-native ERP processes transactions as they happen, cutting manual month-end entries to under 1% and turning the traditional close into a daily routine. Data from 56 early adopters show nearly all entries auto-posted, though B2B and multi-entity firms still need more human judgment.

This daily digest covers SpaceX’s $60 billion stock deal to buy AI coding startup Cursor, Apple’s plan for camera-equipped AirPods and a foldable iPhone in 2027, and Genesis AI’s new industrial robot with LG. It also highlights Snap’s $2,195 AR glasses, AWS’s S3 annotations feature, Meta’s crumbling engineering culture, Anthropic’s talks with Trump officials, and leaked OpenAI finances showing huge losses.

Investors are rushing to claim stakes in AI through SPVs, secondary markets, and pre-IPO perpetual futures—synthetic or real—because demand for ownership outstrips supply. Framed by the internet’s evolution from “read” to “write” to “own,” this trend shows the next phase democratizes economic rights in AI alongside its technologies.

Goldman data show tech stocks have lost most of their valuation premium even as earnings forecasts and insider buying rise, while AI models and proxy advisors increasingly side with activists over management. Surveys reveal quantifiable AI gains climbing across sectors, and long-term charts highlight a 94% drop in global oil intensity despite recent supply disruptions.

The article critiques the flawed analogy that all money-losing companies are the next Amazon. It discusses how unique circumstances and strategies, like those of Amazon, don't apply universally, using examples like WeWork and Uber to illustrate the dangers of oversimplified comparisons.

This article discusses how stablecoins are becoming mainstream for online and international payments, drawing parallels to the impact of WhatsApp on messaging costs. It explores the potential for stablecoins to transform financial transactions and reinforce the dollar's dominance in the global economy.

The ETHval dashboard calculates Ethereum's intrinsic value using ten different valuation methodologies, blending traditional finance approaches with crypto-specific metrics. It aims to provide a more rigorous, fundamentals-based framework for evaluating Ethereum beyond mere price speculation. Feedback and suggestions from users are encouraged.