Runta, an AI infrastructure startup, raised $20 million in seed funding led by Andreessen Horowitz at a post-money valuation of over $100 million, announced July 16, 2026. The company builds guardrail…
Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup founded by former OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati, on July 15 released Inkling, a 975-billion-parameter open-weight multimodal model that processes te…
Thinking Machines Lab, the startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, launched Inkling on July 15, a 975-billion-parameter open-source multimodal AI model with a 1-million-token context window,…
Thinking Machines Lab, founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, has unveiled Inkling, its first open-weights model, after 18 months of stealth development. The model is designed for customization and…
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling on July 15th, its first trained-from-scratch foundation model, making the full weights available under an Apache 2.0 license for developers to fine…
OpenAI employees have donated more than $215,000 to a super PAC opposing Leading the Future, the political action committee backed by OpenAI president Greg Brockman, who personally contributed $25 mil…
Switch, the Las Vegas-based data center operator, is preparing for an initial public offering that could value the company at up to $80B, according to sources familiar with the matter. The company has…
A handful of elite venture capital firms, including Sequoia Capital and Menlo Ventures, are poised to reap the bulk of wealth from AI mega-IPOs such as SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic, threatening rough…
Venture capitalists are growing skeptical of AI wrapper startups—companies that build products on top of foundation models like OpenAI's GPT without proprietary data or workflow lock-in. The skepticis…
Benchmark partner Peter Fenton predicts open-weight AI will dominate token usage within two years, driven by developer-led adoption and cost pressure. The forecast suggests premium pricing for proprie…
Ornn, backed by Andreessen Horowitz, raised $33 million to build a marketplace for trading AI computing power as a commodity, aiming to bring price stability to the AI industry. Goldman Sachs estimate…
OpenRouter and Andreessen Horowitz analyzed over 100 trillion tokens of real-world LLM usage, finding that open-weight AI models now account for roughly one-third of all token volume. Chinese open-wei…
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma was appointed co-lead of the Federal Reserve's Productivity and Jobs task force on July 9, 2026, tasked with evaluating AI's impact on labor markets and monetary policy, just two …
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has joined a Federal Reserve task force studying AI's impact on jobs and productivity, days after announcing 3,200 layoffs at Xbox. The task force, which includes Marc Andreessen …
The US Federal Reserve appointed Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, to co-lead a task force examining how artificial intelligence reshapes productivity, jobs, and monetary policy. The…
Mercor, a three-year-old AI training marketplace run by a 23-year-old CEO, is in talks to raise at a $20 billion valuation, doubling its worth in nine months despite a recent data breach that cost it …
US venture capital hit a record $412.7 billion in the first half of 2026, but AI companies absorbed 86% of that capital, and deals over $100 million accounted for 91% of total investment, leaving non-…
Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh appointed venture capitalist Marc Andreessen to advise on AI's economic impact, citing AI as a potential disinflationary force. Critics question conflicts of interest…
The US Federal Reserve has appointed Xbox CEO Asha Sharma to co-lead its Productivity and Jobs task force, which will assess the economic impact of new general-purpose technologies including AI. The a…
Stilta, a Stockholm-based legal AI startup founded by former McKinsey and QuantumBlack engineers, raised $10.5 million in seed funding led by Andreessen Horowitz to deploy AI agents for patent litigat…