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Vogue World Coming to San Francisco 2027

Vogue announced that its large-scale event, Vogue World, will be held in San Francisco in 2027. Editor Anna Wintour framed the move as a celebration of the city’s creativity and innovation. The article highlights growing ties between fashion media and the tech industry: high-profile tech figures and companies (including Jeff Bezos, Sergey Brin, Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI, Meta and Snap) were prominent at recent fashion events such as this year’s Met Gala, and several tech firms have pursued fashion adjacencies like merch collaborations. The piece notes Vogue World’s prior stops (New York, London, Paris, Milan) and interprets the San Francisco location as a cultural signal of Vogue’s interest in engaging with the tech ecosystem. The article is observational and focuses on cultural and sponsorship trends rather than announcing specific commercial adtech products or partnerships.

Naïve raises $28.5M for AI agent infrastructure

Naïve, a startup offering infrastructure that enables AI agents to automate much of the work involved in forming and operating businesses, raised $28.5 million in a Series A led by Nexus Venture Partners. The company says it signed up over 30,000 developer customers and has scaled annual run-rate revenue by 10x to the low double-digit millions in six months. Naïve provides an API and prompts for provisioning payments, email, phone numbers, cloud resources and company incorporation, and is building efficiency-focused infrastructure — including a model router, memory layer, orchestrator, and a serverless runtime for lightweight JavaScript agents — to reduce inference costs. The round included participation from Y Combinator, Zetta, Liquid 2 and several angel investors.

Reforged Labs shuts down as AI closes market opportunity

Reforged Labs, an AI advertising startup that built an AI-powered video ad creation service for game studios, is winding down after three years. CEO Robert Huynh said rapid advances in AI have narrowed the value gap the company sold into, enabling game studios to build similar creative tools in-house. The business had real revenue with some customers signing six-figure contracts, but there are too few studios at that scale and attempts to expand beyond gaming failed. Reforged Labs raised $3.9 million in seed funding in 2024 and launched an open beta of its generative ad creation platform the same year. Huynh thanked the team, customers and investors and said he intends to continue building in the future.