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…
AI-native ERP startups raised over $350 million in 2025, with Campfire, Rillet, and DualEntry each securing nine-figure rounds, but European mid-market CFOs say they will not switch their ERP, preferr…
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…
Exa launched Exa Agent on June 16, transforming its AI-native search API into a research agent endpoint for developers. The product automates structured web research tasks like deep research and entit…
The cost of running a capable AI model fell by roughly 280 times between November 2022 and October 2024, yet the average company's AI bill rose more than 300% over the same period. The paradox arises …
Software engineers are the first to use AI tools but treat them like traditional coding, whereas the future lies in 'Englishscript'—natural language scripts running on a ClaudeVM that bypass compilati…
Alchemy's AgentCard product has integrated with Visa Intelligent Commerce, enabling AI agents to autonomously make purchases across the Visa network using payment tokens, email addresses, and crypto w…