Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) led a $33 million Series A investment in Telepatia, an AI-native clinical platform for Latin America that combines AI documentation, clinical decision support, and AI health…
AI will transform biopharma unevenly, with drug discovery becoming abundant while clinical development remains the binding constraint. Companies that build durable positions around the development bot…
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) launched a CFO community program that brings together small cohorts of finance leaders for in-person sessions over a year, aiming to provide a trusted peer network for discu…
Workplace conversations are now being recorded by default as artificial intelligence transforms how companies operate, with tools like Granola and OpenAI's systems capturing meetings to build a "livin…
Nationwide weekday office visits remain at about 70% of pre-pandemic levels, with office vacancy rates climbing to 14%, the highest since the Global Financial Crisis. Newer office buildings are thrivi…
Dr. Fei-Fei Li and the World Labs team published a functional taxonomy of world models, distinguishing between renderers, simulators, planners, and the reinforcement learning loop that connects them. …
Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is leading a $55 million Series A investment round in Town, a startup developing a personal AI assistant that learns user behavior across email, calenda…
Small businesses across the U.S. are spending hundreds of hours each month on administrative tasks like data entry and billing, diverting owners from patient care and core services. AI agents now have…
Special, a new company founded by former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) leaders, announced it is building an AI-powered operating system called SpecialOS to transform critical American ind…
Visual AI is shifting from generating final images and videos to producing the underlying code artifacts that create those visuals, according to a new analysis. This transition from pixel-native to co…
Venture capital firm a16z is leading Endra's Series A funding round. Endra automates the design work of mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) consultants, a $150 billion global market, by using a…
Retail investors are driving record-breaking stock market activity, with May on pace to be the most active month for retail cash equity volume on record, according to Citadel Securities. Retail option…
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 …
Apollo's Marc Rowan told a16z that AI application layer startups can still succeed by avoiding direct competition with OpenAI and Anthropic on horizontal tools like code generation and writing. Rowan …
Compliance officers have become one of the fastest-growing occupations in the U.S., with over 400,000 employed nationwide representing $40 billion in annual labor costs, yet the field faces chronic ta…
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 …
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…
Prices for DDR5 and DDR4 memory chips have more than tripled year-over-year as of March, driven by surging AI infrastructure demand and a global bidding war for high-bandwidth memory. Memory manufactu…