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…
A new essay by an unnamed author at a16z.news argues that AI-generated writing is becoming a 'meta-feature' of language, with the '100% AI' label serving as a modern 'Scarlet Letter' that performs a s…
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has invested in Vals, a startup building an evaluation platform that tests AI models on real-world tasks rather than academic benchmarks, aiming to become an independent sco…
Christian Catalini, a guest author on Andreessen Horowitz's a16z news site, argues that the debate over open versus closed AI models is focused on the wrong margin, citing economist Petra Moser's rese…
AI-generated books now capture about 40% of observed sales in self-published categories, according to a paper by researchers at Stony Brook, Columbia, Michigan, and the MIT Initiative on the Digital E…
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) published an opinion piece arguing that AI models lack an inherent sense of when a task is complete, and that effective 'loop engineering' depends on designing verifiers tha…
Endeavor Optical Networks (EON) is developing a space-based laser communication system to provide intercontinental bandwidth without relying on subsea cables, which are increasingly vulnerable to sabo…
Daphne Koller, founder and CEO of insitro, argues in a guest post that AI will not single-handedly cure diseases because human biology is still poorly understood, and most AI efforts focus on drug des…
Vertiv, a major supplier of cooling and power infrastructure for data centers, added $3.27 billion in revenue for Q2 but missed its revenue guidance by about $76 million and the street's consensus by …
Camber, an AI-native revenue cycle platform for specialty care clinics, reports that behavioral health clinics face reimbursement challenges, with the same insurer paying 2.09X to 1.35X more for ident…
The next competitive advantage in physical AI will come from engineering systems, not model intelligence, argues Qasar Younis, co-founder and CEO of Applied Intuition. Younis contends that as AI model…
AI founders chasing Fortune 100 logos are wasting time and money, according to a16z. The firm outlines two go-to-market strategies for AI companies: the Lighthouse strategy for category creation, wher…
Semiconductor stocks are trading near their 10-year average forward P/E of around 19.5x despite nearly 50% of S&P 500 earnings growth coming from the sector, according to a16z. Analysts expect earning…
Andreessen Horowitz argues that AI inference is becoming the largest workload in computing history, with demand for inference tokens surging 300x in two years at Google to 3.2 quadrillion tokens per m…
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) announced the inaugural cohort of 65 Forward Deployed Engineer Fellows, an 8-week program for engineers deploying AI in enterprises, with fellows from companies including Op…
Applied Intuition is launching Dana, an agentic platform for developing physical AI applications, as co-founder and CEO Qasar Younis describes the company's mission as intelligence on a billion machin…
Venture capital firm a16z led the Seed round for Neo, a cybersecurity startup building agentic software control for endpoints where AI agents now operate alongside humans. Neo's founders, including fo…
Software stocks are experiencing a selective sell-off, with multiples on next-twelve-months free cash flow at or below 2014 levels, according to a16z. The market's discount reflects doubt about long-t…
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is leading the seed round for Runta, a startup rebuilding the execution layer for AI agents to provide efficient, secure, and stateful compute that can run locally or in the…
For the first time in history, humans are cheaper than software, and AI is creating more jobs than it eliminates, according to a16z. The firm argues that managing AI is harder than managing people bec…