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…
Unconventional AI, a two-month-old chip startup founded by Naveen Rao, raised $475 million in seed funding at a $4.5 billion valuation to develop hardware that could cut AI inference power consumption…
Unconventional AI emerged from stealth with $475 million in seed funding and unveiled Un0, an image-generation system built on neuromorphic hardware that the company claims can cut energy use by up to…
Unconventional AI released Un-0, an image generation model built on a simulated oscillator architecture that founder Naveen Rao claims could reduce AI power consumption by 1000x. The $475 million star…
Netris, a Santa Clara-based network automation startup, raised $15 million in a Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz to automate networking for AI data centers. The company reported 800% ARR grow…
Netris, a Santa Clara startup that automates networking for GPU data centers, raised $15 million in a Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz. The company reports 800% annual recurring revenue growt…
Andreessen Horowitz led a $15 million Series A round for Netris, a network automation startup that helps GPU cloud providers manage the networking layer beneath AI clusters. The investment highlights …
UC Berkeley AI professor Emma Pierson argues in The Atlantic that AI development should be slowed to mitigate societal risks like mass unemployment and surveillance, even if it delays potential cancer…
Netris, a network automation startup, raised $15 million in Series A funding from Andreessen Horowitz to help AI neoclouds reduce the time to go live by automating data center setup, configuration, an…
Probook, a New York startup using AI to automate dispatch for plumbing, HVAC and electrical contractors, raised $40 million in total funding from Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital. The 24-year-o…
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has invested in Netris, a startup that provides network management software for GPU data centers. The company's solution addresses the complexity of managing multiple networ…
Pro-AI super PACs spent over $27 million in New York's 12th Congressional District primary, where Assemblymember Micah Lasher defeated AI-regulation sponsor Alex Bores. The race became the most expens…
Micah Lasher won the Democratic primary for New York's 12th congressional district with 39.1% of the vote, defeating eight candidates. He issued a defiant message to OpenAI and Anthropic, vowing not t…
Mirendil, an AI startup founded by former Anthropic researchers, is in advanced discussions for a $175 million funding round co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins at a $1 billion valuation…
Roughly $27 million was spent in a proxy contest over Assemblyman Alex Bores in New York's 12th Congressional District, with AI-linked super PACs playing a decisive role. AI-centric super PACs tied to…
SpaceX's Starship rocket will enable Elon Musk's plan to deploy up to 1 million solar-powered AI satellites in low Earth orbit, creating orbital data centers. The project, supported by Andreessen Horo…