Unitree Robotics CEO Wang Xingxing said at the 2026 World Robot Conference in Beijing that a humanoid robot breakthrough—where robots can perform 80% of tasks in unfamiliar environments via voice comm…
Vinod Khosla and three co-authors argued in a JAMA Perspective published August 17th that autonomous medical AI could eventually outperform physicians in cognitive care, including doctors who use AI a…
HR software giant Rippling filed a patent infringement lawsuit against NYC AI startup Runlayer in the US District Court for Delaware, accusing it of stealing Rippling's intellectual property, while de…
Corma, a Tel Aviv and San Francisco-based startup founded in 2025, emerged from stealth with $60 million in seed funding led by Sequoia Capital, with participation from Khosla Ventures and Coatue, to …
Investors are shifting AI funding toward infrastructure companies, with Valar Atomics, a builder of small-modular nuclear reactors, announcing a $1 billion Series B at a $6 billion valuation led by Se…
Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu said the IT industry, including Zoho, has largely stopped creating new jobs, with funds that would have gone to hiring now consumed by AI and data center costs due to rising…
Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang, now leading Meta's Superintelligence Labs, said at a Y Combinator event that AI agents have leveled the playing field for startups, enabling them to compete head-on wit…
Runlayer, a New York-based AI security startup backed by billionaire Vinod Khosla, sued Rippling on Tuesday in the Southern District of New York, alleging the Silicon Valley software giant stole trade…
Elon Musk predicted that AI and robotics will make money irrelevant by 2036, drawing online mockery, but Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures, warned that this abundance depends on political will …
Khosla Ventures, the first outside investor in OpenAI, is in talks to raise up to $5.5 billion across a new set of funds, according to Bloomberg. The record raise would allocate about $1 billion for s…
Khosla Ventures is in talks to raise $5.5 billion across new funds, nearly double the $3.5 billion it sought in February 2025, according to Bloomberg. The Menlo Park firm, led by Vinod Khosla, is doub…
Yang Zhilin, the 34-year-old founder and CEO of Chinese AI company Moonshot AI, has captured global attention with the release of the open-weight Kimi K3 model, which rivals leading American models in…
Moonshot AI's open-weight Kimi K3 model topped Arena's frontend coding leaderboard within 24 hours of launch, surpassing Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol, triggering warnings from T…
Nearly 200 economists and tech executives, including OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar and Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark, signed a statement Monday warning that AI could cause 'large-scale job displacement' an…
General Intuition, a startup led by CEO Pim de Witte, raised $320 million at a $2.3 billion valuation to develop a foundation model for robotics trained on video game data. The company argues that its…
Vinod Khosla advocates for linear generators from Mainspring Energy to power AI data centers, bypassing the grid bottleneck. Mainspring closed a $258 million Series F round in April 2025, with backing…
Vinod Khosla argues that linear generators, which convert fuel directly into electricity without combustion, can solve AI's energy crisis by providing fast, scalable, off-grid power for data centers, …
Scaled Cognition raised $100 million in Series A funding led by Khosla Ventures to build AI models that do not hallucinate. The startup's APT model is designed with reliability engineered into its arc…
Runlayer raised $30 million in Series A funding led by Felicis, with Khosla Ventures participating, to build security and compliance infrastructure for corporate AI agents. The New York-based startup'…
Vinod Khosla pushed to buy every dollar of Runlayer's $30 million Series A, a rare signal of conviction from the influential investor. Runlayer builds governance infrastructure for AI agent workforces…