Mercor is acquiring Deeptune, a company that builds reinforcement learning environments for AI training, to combine Deeptune's software platform with Mercor's expert network for creating realistic tra…
Fleek, a B2B marketplace for secondhand clothing wholesale, raised $25 million in Series B funding led by Burda Principal Investments with participation from eBay, FJ Labs, and H14. The company uses A…
The Federal Reserve appointed venture capitalist Marc Andreessen to co-lead a Productivity and Jobs task force examining AI's impact on employment and growth, part of a broader monetary policy review …
Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh announced five independent task forces on July 9 to review U.S. monetary policy, including the impact of artificial intelligence on productivity and jobs. The panels,…
Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh appointed venture capitalist Marc Andreessen and former Walmart CEO Doug McMillon to lead task forces reviewing monetary policy, including AI's impact on jobs and dat…
Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh appointed venture capitalist Marc Andreessen to a task force that will help the Fed measure AI's impact on productivity and jobs, giving Silicon Valley direct infl…
The Federal Reserve has appointed Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, to co-lead a new task force examining how artificial intelligence affects productivity and jobs. The task force, p…
AI companies and their backers are pouring hundreds of millions into the 2026 US midterms through super PACs, led by Leading the Future and Innovation Council Action, to push for a single national AI …
Mercor, an AI recruiting and training-data unicorn valued at $10 billion, acquired Deeptune, a startup building simulated office software for AI agents, on July 9. Mercor CEO Brendan Foody had persona…
Mercor, the $10 billion AI talent platform, acquired Deeptune, a startup building simulation environments for AI agent training, in a deal announced July 9. The acquisition signals growing investment …
AI unicorn Mercor, led by 23-year-old billionaire Brendan Foody, acquired Deeptune, an Andreessen Horowitz-backed startup that builds simulation environments for AI agents. Foody had invested in Deept…
Andreessen Horowitz released a video arguing that American AI development must outpace adversaries, claiming that whoever builds advanced AI first shapes the world's defaults. The piece critiques this…
InterviewWatch, a new tool that detects AI assistance during live technical interviews, reports that 38.5% of 19,368 candidates were flagged for AI-assisted cheating, with rates climbing from 9% to 45…
Standard Nuclear Inc. filed for an IPO targeting a valuation of up to $3.55 billion, seeking to raise $383.25 million amid surging electricity demand from AI data centers. The Tennessee-based nuclear …
Fleek, a London startup building AI infrastructure for the global secondhand clothing trade, raised $25 million in Series B funding led by Burda Principal Investments. The company uses a custom vision…
Stilta raised $10.5 million in seed funding led by Andreessen Horowitz to develop AI agents that automate patent analysis for enforcement, defense, and commercialization. Founded in January 2026 by fo…
Stilta, an AI-powered patent analysis startup founded by former McKinsey consultants Oskar Block and Oscar Adamsson, raised a $10.5 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz. The company helps bus…
Approximately 80% of US startups using open-source AI have adopted cheaper Chinese models from DeepSeek, Alibaba, and Moonshot AI, according to Andreessen Horowitz. The shift, driven by costs as low a…
Andra Keay's June 2026 robotics funding roundup counted 136 rounds totaling $6.57 billion, with defense investments driving large checks. Keay cautioned that 33% of entries lacked reported amounts and…
Chinese AI models now account for over 30% of weekly token usage among US users on OpenRouter, driven by cost advantages of 60-90% over Western rivals. The surge, led by MiniMax M2.5, Moonshot AI's Ki…