AI-designed apps often share three telltale signs: boring, cookie-cutter design; polished but dysfunctional interfaces; and poor handling of edge cases. Experts warn these issues can become major prob…
Andreessen Horowitz argues that open AI development is necessary for democratic societies to compete with authoritarian adversaries, framing it as an immune system response. The author critiques this …
Andreessen Horowitz released a document arguing that the United States must lead global AI development by establishing the infrastructure through which all nations access the technology, effectively o…
Andreessen Horowitz released a video arguing that American AI must lead through controlled openness, a strategy that parallels the FBI's surveillance of a man recorded without his knowledge. The piece…
Quantum computers cannot break Bitcoin's cryptography today, but advances from Google and IBM suggest the gap is closing faster than expected, raising the stakes for 'Q-Day' when a sufficiently powerf…
Billionaire venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, a former Democrat who now supports Donald Trump, has been appointed to the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board. The board, led by former Trump trade represe…
Billionaire investor Marc Andreessen claimed on Joe Rogan's podcast that ChatGPT outperforms 99% of doctors, but peer-reviewed studies contradict him. A Nature Medicine study found OpenAI's ChatGPT He…
Billionaire Marc Andreessen claimed that 'Doctor ChatGPT' outperforms 99% of human doctors, but physicians and peer-reviewed studies contradict him, citing potentially harmful AI advice. A 2026 Nature…
Venture capitalists Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz backed Donald Trump's 2024 campaign claiming he would protect AI, but Trump is now shutting down AI initiatives. The VCs' real motivation was acces…
Mirendil, an a16z-backed startup, raised $200 million in seed funding at a $1 billion valuation to develop AI capable of recursive self-improvement. The company aims to bridge the gap between scientif…
Mirendil, a San Francisco AI startup founded by former Anthropic researchers, raised $200 million in a seed round at a $1 billion valuation co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins with NVIDI…
Arena, the UC Berkeley-born AI evaluation platform behind the Chatbot Arena leaderboard, tripled its annualized revenue from $30M to $100M in six months, but its business model of charging AI companie…
Arena, the AI leaderboard platform that originated as a UC Berkeley research project, has reached $100 million in annualized run-rate revenue just eight months after launching its commercial service. …
Arena, the UC Berkeley spinout behind the AI model evaluation platform LMArena, reached a $100 million annual revenue run rate eight months after launching its first commercial product, AI Evaluations…
Booz Allen Hamilton, the largest AI services provider to the US federal government, partnered with OpenAI to develop AI solutions for national security and critical infrastructure. The collaboration a…
Mirendil, a startup founded by former Anthropic researchers Behnam Neyshabur and Harsh Mehta, raised $200 million in seed funding at a $1 billion valuation to build a self-improving AI platform. The c…
Micah Lasher won a Manhattan congressional primary despite $27 million in spending by AI-backed super PACs, defeating Alex Bores who was supported by Anthropic's Public First Action and opposed by Ope…
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) announced the 73 fellows selected for its inaugural Design Engineer Fellowship, an 8-week cohort of AI-native design leaders from companies like OpenAI, Cursor, Stripe, and …
More than 60 crypto projects shut down in the first half of 2026, including three backed by Andreessen Horowitz's a16z—Yupp, Syndicate Labs, and Entropy—which collectively burned through $87 million. …
Story Protocol rebranded as the DATA Foundation, migrating its $IP token to $DATA at a 1:1 ratio, as the project pivots from IP licensing to AI training data infrastructure. The shift follows resistan…