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The Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company has raised $55M to audit and insure frontier AI models. Insurance produces audits the public can trust and understand. The mechanism is simple: insurers need audits to price the risk. They pick auditors they believe will help them price the risk most accurately. Insurers then turn the audits into a price signal that cuts through political debates. Insurers are aligned with the public: if they get the audits wrong, they go out of business. That’s different from today, where labs pick their own auditors, creating public distrust. Insurance only works if we scale up auditing, and we are building the infrastructure to do that. Millions of agents are being deployed; they leave terabytes of traces and will create thousands of incidents across dozens of risk categories. To scale auditing, we need reliable agents to surface evidence traces for human review. History guides us. Take cars: auto insurers funded crash tests to price risks; crash tests led us to airbags, lowering the risk. Take electricity: home insurers funded lightbulb tests to price fire risks; today, every lightbulb carries a safety mark. Nuclear safety works similarly. We’ve been learning by doing.. In the last 6 months, we’ve audited and insured frontier agent builders like Cursor, ElevenLabs, Lovable and Harvey. For ElevenLabs to get the world’s first agent insurance coverage, a Lloyd’s of London insurer required quarterly technical audits by an auditor of the insurer’s choice. We’ve built infrastructure for quarterly technical audits of any agent, working alongside firms like Gray Swan (technical evaluations) and Schellman (audit). In the coming weeks, we’ll share our vision for how an insurance ecosystem can work for the frontier, and open source the world’s first actuarial model for frontier AI catastrophic risk. We’re hiring across all roles in San Francisco. Come do your life’s work with us. Rune & Rajiv

everyone’s book picks, btw: @iscoe, splitting an order by ted kooser @ettinger, confessions of an advertising man by david ogilvy @anuatluru, animal farm by george orwell @arakharazian, john & paul by ian leslie @kneelingbus, understanding media by marshall mcluhan @freialobo, close to the machine by ellen ullman @left_pad, tools for conviviality by ivan illich @jackiehluo, games: agency as art by c. thi nguyen @jacksondahl, seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees by lawrence weschler @Jhovde2121, dataclysm by christian rudder @barsisyphus, seeing like a state by james scott @kasrak, creativity, inc. by ed catmull @katiewav, seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees by lawrence weschler (2x!) @thesephist, diaspora by greg egan @m1shti, the journalist and the murderer by janet malcolm @sebkrier, a canticle for leibowitz by walter miller @kickingkeys, spacesuit: fashioning apollo by nicholas de monchaux we had a lot of fun with this one, excited for the next

Recently completed the 50th project in Wordsss history 🙏 Hadn’t thought about this business in terms of project quantity, but it’s a number worth celebrating (currently doing so in the lakes and mountains around Zurich). Grateful to have found something that I love doing, that some people (most importantly: our clients and my parents) seem to think I’m good at. Here are some highlights from the monthly-ish update I sent to colleagues, collaborators, and one person who has since asked to be removed from the list: I started my career by NOT starting my career at @AngelList (didn't get an offer for the Analyst program after a final round interview ... that I absolutely crushed btw!!) I’m mostly over it now, but that made it particularly special to help this underrated beast of a business retell their story: ✌️ AngelList is the financial system for private markets: a portfolio of businesses that move capital between funds, investors, and companies. Each business handles a different layer of private market participation: how funds form and operate , how individuals find investment opportunities, how startups raise capital, and how payments are processed. Now with over $200B in assets on the platform. Some recently wrapped work that's launching soon: -Reindustrializing American biology with closed-loop clinical trials. -Beating the market is a research problem. Active ETFs built on semi-autonomous, long-term fundamental equity research. -Make your most complex business decisions safe to hand to an AI agent. Every agent is a brilliant new hire. Make it a seasoned veteran. -Engineering intelligence, built from the session. Reopen any session, in any tool — and see what the spend built. ————————— Wordsss is a storytelling studio for high-growth teams. We help innovative companies describe what they do, why it matters, and how it's different.

Private markets are maturing with new product opportunities emerging at different layers in the stack. @haridigresses does a great job breaking this down, where we are focused, and some fun short stories on how single individuals have changed the course of @AngelList over the years.

Skip the emails. Talk to your fund directly in Claude, ChatGPT, or any AI tool you already work from. 🆕 Wordsss for @AngelList — the financial system for private markets.

Introducing AngelList Link — an MCP server for GPs to turn your fund into something you can talk to. One source of truth. Verified answers. Daily financials. Queryable from Claude, ChatGPT, or any AI tool you already work from. Ask a question about your own fund — capital call status, LP holdings across vehicles, a valuation update — and get an answer instantly. This is agentic fund management: the system of record for more than 25,000 funds and SPVs, queryable from any AI tool. Live now for supported vehicles. → angellist.com/link

before bed tonight my 5yo nephew got some of his toughest trucks lined up for a big day tomorrow

design comes easy when the message is that beautiful

everything @vbahkk & @tjcages design blows me away. (and makes my copy look so much better) @usvc_ by @AngelList is the simplest way to invest in venture capital brand design & reel by @otherkindstudio:

Every year, $2.7 trillion moves through the U.S. economy on PDFs, phone calls, and faxes. The companies getting parts to data centers, equipment to hospitals, components to factory floors. Most still quote jobs by hand: a rep spends hours matching a 300-line order to the catalog and keying it into an ERP from the 90s, and by the time the quote goes out, a faster competitor has won. Faction removes the friction One platform works across your entire operation (sales, purchasing, planning, finance) that integrates with any system you run. Scan emails, PDFs, and spreadsheets, match vague product descriptions to your catalog, apply customer-specific pricing, and push complete quotes to your ERP in seconds. Faction's voice agents handle inbound calls around the clock — answering pricing and availability questions from live data, capturing orders without manual entry. Quote, source, sell, get paid — at the speed the physical world demands. For the distributors of the future.

a lot of people have been asking me for an ID on my jeans here... Studio Nicholson - Paolo (Indigo)

From The New Yorker to Notion: the technology world is very lucky to have @iscoe thinking about it full-time. And @NotionHQ is assembling quite a team...

All aboard! Adam @iscoe summer baby 🚢🫡

🆕 Wordsss for Kyber: real-time control for every machine. Latency is dangerous. At 200ms of delay, a remote-controlled vehicle has traveled beyond where you intended to stop it. A surgical instrument is no longer where an incision was supposed to be made. Kyber's latency is below the human perception threshold — allowing instant, secure control of robots, drones, surgical systems, remote workstations... from anywhere. Kyber makes distance disappear.

Vori's $22M Series B announcement started with a 5,000-word memo that they just made available to everyone. A lot of launches start with a press release or a video brief. Before we touched a script, slide, or social post, we prepped a memo covering the market, product, traction, vision. 11-pages for the whole team and external partners to align around before anything else shipped. This memo informed everything & then it became its own deliverable that we cooked up for the world. A tasty little Series B microsite → vori.com/b PR / Comms: @jenny_chao Design Engineer: @thegriffinwells Research: @rossmatican Video: @afterimage