Benedict Evans, a veteran tech analyst and former Andreessen Horowitz partner, published his most consequential analysis yet, "AI Eats the World," arguing that the AI revolution will force companies t…
Sriram Krishnan, a senior policy advisor for artificial intelligence at the White House, is leaving the Trump administration at the end of June. Krishnan, a former tech executive and venture capitalis…
New York City is emerging as a hub for applied artificial intelligence, driven by major office leases from OpenAI and other AI firms, according to reporting from NY Tech Week. Andreessen Horowitz part…
Venture capitalists at NY Tech Week are betting New York City will become the "applied AI capital," with AI giants like OpenAI opening offices to tap into the city's media, finance, and healthcare ind…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Wednesday he does not plan to donate to any 2026 U.S. election campaigns, even as other Silicon Valley billionaires pour money into midterm races that will decide control of…
Ideogram AI released version 4.0 of its text-to-image model with open weights, allowing developers to download and run the software on their own infrastructure. The update improves prompt fidelity and…
Venture capitalist Jesse Walden has raised $222 million for Variant 4, a new early-stage fund that expands his firm's investment thesis beyond crypto to include artificial intelligence and "autonomy."…
Town, a startup founded by former Plaid CTO Jean-Denis Grézé and former Google AI director Tony Vincent, raised $55 million in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz to develop personalized AI as…
Two former staffers of the Department of Government Efficiency launched Special, a private-equity firm that plans to buy companies and use artificial intelligence to cut costs, backed by a roster of E…
E2B has launched a special offer for founders in a16z Speedrun, providing Andreessen Horowitz-backed early-stage teams with access to its isolated code execution sandbox infrastructure for AI agents. …
Independent analyst and former Andreessen Horowitz partner Benedict Evans argues that artificial intelligence is as transformative as the internet or mobile—but no more than that, placing the current …
Opponents of federal AI regulation have spent the past year blocking legislation in Washington, but their strategy backfired this week when Illinois passed SB 315, the strictest state AI law to date. …
OpenRouter raised $113 million in Series B funding led by Alphabet's CapitalG, with participation from NVIDIA, ServiceNow, MongoDB, Snowflake, Databricks, Andreessen Horowitz and Menlo Ventures, valui…
OpenRouter, an AI gateway startup founded in 2023, raised $113 million in Series B funding led by CapitalG, the growth venture fund of Alphabet, reaching a post-money valuation of approximately $1.3 b…
Arc, a voice AI startup founded by Square and Cash App veterans, has raised $10.76 million in seed funding led by Andreessen Horowitz to power drive-thru ordering and business optimization. The compan…
Lightspeed Venture Partners has hired a new partner, Zau, who will serve a dual role as both a seed investor and an in-house creator, leveraging her social media following of over 350,000 to shape the…
Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen told Joe Rogan that AI coding agents are superior to human employees because they never get drunk, sick, or file HR complaints, and they work 24/7 without emotional …
Anthropic and OpenAI are using super PACs to influence the 2024 midterm elections, spending millions to attack congressional candidates and each other. Anthropic donated $20 million to a super PAC bac…
According to the article, AI search startups are experiencing a surge, with Exa Labs raising $250 million at a $2.5 billion valuation, and Parallel Web Systems, led by former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal…
Anthropic has acquired Stainless, a startup that provides software development kit (SDK) tools to competitors like OpenAI and Google, for over $300 million. The deal will remove a key infrastructure s…