Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) announced the a16z Ops Engineering Fellowship, a six-week cohort starting in October 2026 for cross-functional leaders who deploy AI agents and systems at the organizational…
Andreessen Horowitz co-founder Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen are launching The Horowitz Andreessen Academy, a highly selective San Francisco school for young builders after high school or their fir…
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) announced an investment in Gimlet Labs, which it calls the first multi-silicon inference cloud designed to address the global shortage of AI compute power. The firm notes th…
Tech job postings since January 2025 show a 5-10% rise in preferred years of experience and a corresponding drop in preferred number of skills, according to Revelio Labs data cited by Andreessen Horow…
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) argues that AI makes incumbent systems of record more important, not less, as agents like Claude coordinate work across applications, exemplified by Salesforce's Claudeforce…
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) advises AI application companies to avoid pricing per token and instead price at the highest layer of value they can measure, such as credits for completed work or outcomes,…
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) published a slide deck by Anish A. arguing that intelligence is the primitive and applications are the diffusion layer, emphasizing the importance of the application layer i…
Protege, in collaboration with a16z, highlights the 'Oracle Problem' as the primary bottleneck to AI adoption in healthcare, where the lack of objective ground truth and subjective clinical evaluation…
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) announced the 50 fellows selected for its inaugural 8-week Talent Engineer Fellowship, an AI-focused program for talent leaders building AI-native recruiting systems. The co…
Stripe has signed a deal to acquire OpenRouter, creating a network for AI companies to exchange intelligence. Stripe's Will Gaybrick said, 'We just want to make sure that moving between tokens and dol…
A fake AI influencer named Janie, created by an unnamed author using ChatGPT-generated images and AI video tools, amassed 1,300 TikTok followers and tens of thousands of views per video within a week,…
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 …