Metal, an AI-powered fundraising platform backed by a16z and Y Combinator, launches to help founders manage investor discovery, relationship mapping, and round tracking as a unified data problem. The …
Researchers at NS3.AI have developed an AI tool that can link Ethereum wallet addresses to social media profiles for about $4 per attempt, using pattern matching and behavioral fingerprinting on publi…
Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs), a role pioneered by Palantir, are surging in demand in 2025 as AI startups and scaleups need engineers who can embed with customers to integrate AI solutions. Ventur…
South Park Commons portfolio companies raised over $1.5 billion in June 2026, including Baseten's $1.5B Series F at a $13B valuation for AI inference and Orb's $335M acquisition by Adyen. AXION launch…
Upbit, Korea's largest crypto exchange, will list Gensyn ($AI) in KRW, BTC, and USDT trading pairs starting June 30, 2026. The decentralized AI compute token, backed by a16z and Galaxy Digital, gains …
Factory co-founder and CEO Matan Cohen presented the concept of a software factory at the AI Engineer World Fair in San Francisco, defining it as the full autonomous cycle of software development incl…
Mozilla President calls for an open-source 'rebel alliance' to counter Big Tech's control over AI, highlighting moves by Canada, the EU, and other nations to prioritize open-source AI infrastructure. …
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. …
Per-token prices for large language models are collapsing, but AI bills are exploding as reasoning models consume far more tokens per task. Uber burned through a year's AI budget in four months, and M…
AI search engine Exa raised $250 million in Series C funding at a $2.2 billion valuation, led by a16z, to power AI agents with high-quality web search. Exa already serves over 5,000 companies includin…
Story Protocol rebranded as Data Network, pivoting from intellectual property to AI training data. Its native IP token fell 98% from its all-time high and will migrate 1:1 to trade as DATA. The move f…
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) led Mirendil's seed round to build a lab-grade research platform that enables engineers and domain experts to conduct frontier AI work. Mirendil aims to democratize AI devel…
Tech billionaires Marc Andreessen and Greg Brockman spent $29 million through super PAC Leading the Future to win a New York congressional primary for candidate Micah Lasher, signaling the AI industry…
A16z is leading Probook's $34 million Series A, bringing total funding to $40 million, to expand its AI-powered dispatch platform for home services. Probook's system centralizes dispatch, intake, and …
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has abandoned traditional media playbooks to embrace a new influence-driven, social-media-first strategy, positioning itself as a dominant narrative owner in the age of plat…
Paul Bakaus launched Renaissance Geek, the company behind Impeccable, with backing from a16z led by Anish Acharya and a new partnership with GitHub. Impeccable is an open-source design skill for AI co…
GLM-5.2, a new open-source AI model, has been released, boasting strong benchmarks and positioning as the best open model to date, though it remains behind the frontier by 4-7 months. The model is a s…
Samba, a media-measurement company, acquired GenAI ad platform Bestever AI to advance agentic advertising. Bestever founder Apoorva Govind will join Samba as Director of Product. The deal combines Sam…
Vice President J. D. Vance has outlined an America-first AI doctrine emphasizing speed, deregulation, and geopolitical competition, as reported in The Atlantic, Lawfare, and other outlets. The framewo…
A forward-deployed engineer (FDE) is a software engineer who embeds inside a customer's environment, builds a production system on top of the product, and feeds lessons back to core engineering. The r…