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Andrej Karpathy, a prominent AI researcher and co-founder of OpenAI, announced he has joined Anthropic. Karpathy stated he is excited to return to research and development at the frontier of large language models, while …
Productivity growth has slowed across advanced economies despite rapid advancements in artificial intelligence, creating a paradox where technological capability outpaces measurable output. Economists point to lagging ad…
The Lenny and Friends Summit returns on September 10 in San Francisco, with applications now open for the handpicked, invite-only event for senior product and AI leaders. Organizer Lenny aims to make it the world’s best …
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 brand recall—offers a bl…
A product leader built an AI-powered Chief of Staff system using Obsidian for knowledge management and Claude as an intelligence engine to automate daily coordination, project tracking, and strategic prioritization. The …
A five-person team at Swamp builds and ships product improvements daily using AI agents, operating without human approval gates between decisions and deployment. VP Product Paul Stack and his colleagues independently adv…
AppGoblin's 2026 Q1 App Ecosystem Report shows Verve leading ad networks for a second consecutive quarter, while Snap Inc., TaurusX, and adjoe also posted strong growth. In business tools, Luciq and PayPal emerged as fas…
Between February and May 2026, six companies shipped products that together form the infrastructure for AI agents to operate as legal-economic actors in the U.S., including identity, custody, banking, payments, and legal…
Fellow.ai, an AI-powered meeting assistant startup, eliminated 'works on my machine' issues by using Flox to define reproducible project environments that travel with code repositories. CTO Sam Cormier-Iijima identified …
Meta committed $145 billion to AI infrastructure the same week it began firing approximately 8,000 employees, framing the cuts as a recalibration to "AI reality." Standard Chartered separately announced it would cut more…
A subreddit called /r/SlopcoreCirclejerk has emerged as a hub for pro-generative AI users who mock and provoke anti-AI communities, with posts celebrating the erosion of human creativity and targeting critics as "luddite…
Ion Stoica, a UC Berkeley professor and co-founder of Databricks, delivered a keynote at Alumni House tracing how research problems led to foundational technologies like Apache Spark and Ray, which powered ChatGPT. A VC …
Fin, a customer service AI company, found that newer frontier models like Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Opus 4.5 failed to outperform the older Sonnet 4.0 on its specific customer service tasks. The company’s Chief AI Officer ar…
A nine-person jury unanimously rejected Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman, finding that Musk filed the claim after the three-year statute of limitations had expired. The jury determined Musk was aware of …
San Francisco and Silicon Valley are experiencing a "frenetic" malaise among AI workers, driven by extreme wealth inequality and existential uncertainty about the future, according to a viral tweet from venture capitalis…
Marc Andreessen told a16z's January 2026 LP meeting that the competitive advantage in artificial intelligence no longer comes from the underlying model, but from the infrastructure and applications built around it. The v…
A deterministically chaotic market simulation successfully reproduced the lifecycle of a real-world stock buyback factor strategy, showing cycles of alpha generation, crowding, and eventual losses. The simulation, popula…
ChatFeatured, a Toronto-based startup that helps brands influence how they appear in AI search engines, migrated from PlanetScale Postgres to Postgres managed by ClickHouse to unify transactional and analytical workloads…
Ukrainian tech founder Yaroslav Azhnyuk, who transitioned from building PetCube to founding AI-guided drone company The Fourth Law, told Noah Smith that Ukraine produced 4 million FPV drones last year while China could p…
Vercel engineer Chris Tate developed Zero, a new systems programming language designed specifically for AI agents rather than human developers. The language treats AI agents as first-class users of the entire toolchain, …