AI agents now consume 7.3 trillion tokens on a seven-day average basis, roughly five times human usage, according to data from OpenRouter published by venture firm a16z. Agentic token usage first surp…
Computer-using agents have improved dramatically, with the best model now scoring 85% on OSWorld-Verified, surpassing the ~72% human benchmark, according to a16z. The capability jump has made producti…
Stripe's president of technology and business Will Gaybrick said on a16z's podcast that checkout pages will disappear as AI agents handle shopping and payments, with payment shifting from a click-thro…
The latest edition of Dev Opportunity Radar highlights the a16z Alpha Fellowship, RevenueCat Shipaton 2026, and the Kaggriculture AI Agent Competition, along with IBM SkillsBuild as a resource. The fe…
Starcloud, formerly Lumen Orbit, has raised approximately $200M in total capital, including a $170M Series A on March 30, 2026, reaching a $1.1B post-money valuation and becoming the fastest Y Combina…
GitHub's August 17 outage lasted 7 hours and 47 minutes, disrupting GitHub.com, authentication, GitHub Actions, APIs, pull requests, issues, and Copilot, according to GitHub and The Register. The inci…
HappyRobot, a San Francisco-based logistics AI startup, closed a $150 million Series C on August 4 at a $1.22 billion post-money valuation, led by Prysm Capital with Eurazeo co-leading and participati…
An a16z partner created a fictional 19-year-old sorority girl named Janie for Bama Rush using ChatGPT and $100 in AI credits, and within a week, the fake account gained 1,300 followers on TikTok witho…
Stripe's acquisition of OpenRouter is a strategic security decision, not merely a routing or billing play, according to an analysis by AMP PBC and former a16z investor Midha. The analysis argues that …
AI inference costs are becoming a major problem for many companies, with AI spend per employee per month rising sharply, according to the Ramp AI Index via a16z. To reduce costs, companies should audi…
A developer argues that the visual and strategic uniformity of AI startups stems from their reliance on the same foundation models and venture capital incentives, making the entire cohort fragile to s…
Cursor, the AI code editor developed by Anysphere, has been officially acquired by SpaceXAI, according to a16z. The acquisition positions the combined team to dominate the AI coding market, which a16z…
Travis Kalanick, co-founder of Uber, ended his eight-year public silence at the launch event of his new company Atoms, where he discussed his belief that industrial AI will automate food production, m…
A new analysis from venture capital firm a16z outlines two primary go-to-market strategies for AI startups: the lighthouse approach, which relies on winning a small number of high-profile customers to…
Periodic Labs, an AI-for-science company founded by Liam Fedus and Ekin Dogus Cubuk, launched in September 2025 with a $300M seed round backed by a16z, Felicis, DST Global, and NVIDIA's venture arm, w…
Decagon has crossed $100 million in annualized revenue, CEO Jesse Zhang told the company, positioning its AI customer service product against rivals Sierra and Salesforce. Zhang argues that relying on…
Convex raised a $57 million Series B led by Insight Partners, with participation from Etna Labs, a16z, and Spark Capital. Elastic agreed to acquire Deductive AI, an AI-powered investigation platform, …
Datadog CISO Emilio Escobar said the real AI security threat is not models escaping but the coming explosion in discovered vulnerabilities, as the company has over 4,000 engineers using coding agents …
Anand Arivukkarasu, a former Meta product leader, has developed a framework called the Supply Chain of Intelligence to explain where durable competitive advantage accrues in AI. The framework, publish…
A Hacker News post argues that computers and AI should be treated as tools, not attention-seeking devices, and criticizes the internet's evolution from a bubble to engagement-driven platforms, citing …