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There’s a photo of Robert Caro hanging over Michael Truell’s desk. Caro — the legendary biographer of Lyndon Johnson and Robert Moses, known for spending decades on a single book — is a strange choice of inspiration for the 25-year-old CEO of a quintessential AI startup running at startup speed. But it’s a telling choice. Because right now, Cursor needs patience, long-term thinking, and methodical execution more than almost anything else. And the irony is that it may have very little time left to demonstrate all three. ...

Guild.ai has raised $44 million in a combined seed and Series A round led by Khosla Ventures, with the company valued at $300 million. The funding is going toward what founder and CEO James Everingham describes as a platform that lets enterprise teams build, deploy, and manage AI agents at scale — in minutes rather than months. The announcement lands as part of a broader wave of agentic infrastructure investment. JetStream Security and WorkOS also announced funding rounds today, reinforcing that the agentic AI infrastructure layer is attracting serious capital right now. ...