Meta acquired Limitless, the maker of a $99 AI-powered wearable pendant, on December 5, 2025, as part of its push into AI wearables. The social media giant is also developing a smartwatch codenamed Ma…
Circle launched Arc, an enterprise-grade Layer-1 blockchain designed to power machine-speed transactions for AI agents, with sub-second finality and transaction fees as low as $0.000001. The USDC issu…
Andreessen Horowitz launched the a16z FDE Fellowship, an eight-week cohort for forward-deployed engineers and applied AI leaders deploying AI into enterprise settings. The program, starting in July 20…
AI is augmenting rather than replacing human workers in B2B customer support, according to data from Pylon, the agentic support platform. The technology resolves only about 15% of B2B support tickets …
A super PAC funded by OpenAI, Palantir, and a16z executives has spent millions attacking New York Assemblymember Alex Bores in the NY-12 Democratic primary. Bores raised over $2.2 million last quarter…
OpenAI and Anthropic have spent millions in a political proxy war over AI regulation, but their efforts to defeat New York state assemblyman Alex Bores have backfired, turning the once-obscure candida…
A16z hosted a private lunch last week with AI researchers and infrastructure engineers, where attendees identified agent sandboxes and AI-driven auto-research as key areas of focus. Multiple labs have…
Exa has raised a Series C round led by a16z to build a search engine designed specifically for AI agents, which the company says will soon search the web more than humans. The startup has spent five y…
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is leading Exa's Series C funding round to support the company's development of a search engine built specifically for artificial intelligence agents. Exa's technology aims …
A founder can recover 290 hours per year by cloning their personal voice into a 4,000-token file for Claude, turning a weekend project into a compounding AI advantage. The guide provides two prompts a…
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has hired General (R) Bryan P. Fenton as a special advisor. The venture firm argues that plaintiff attorneys' business model—based on lead generation, underwriting, and bran…
A new generation of enterprise software companies is shifting focus from owning the "system of record" to building "systems of intelligence," according to analysts. These systems sit above databases l…
Venture capital firm a16z is leading Stitch's Series A funding round, marking its first investment in Saudi Arabia. Stitch provides an API-first operating system for financial institutions, including …
The U.S. Congress has introduced over 100 AI-related bills in the past two years, but only one standalone measure—the Take It Down Act—has become law. Structural hurdles, fragmented committee jurisdic…
Venture capital firm a16z is leading a Series A investment in Ethos, a startup building AI-powered infrastructure to match workers with professional opportunities. The company uses AI voice agents to …
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has selected 65 fellows for the inaugural cohort of its Growth Engineer Fellowship, an 8-week program for growth engineers and AI-native leaders. The fellows, who come from …
The article argues that "Contracted Annual Recurring Revenue" (CARR) is a misleading metric used by startups to inflate their financial figures, often reporting revenue from multi-year contracts with …