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Will the DOJ’s investigation into a16z spook other VCs?
Following a Bloomberg report that the Department of Justice is investigating venture firm Andreessen Horowitz for holding board…
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Historian Jill Lepore says Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy
In her upcoming book “The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State,” Jill Lepore warns that tech companies…
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Wiz investor unpacks Google’s $32B acquisition
Google closed its $32 billion acquisition of cybersecurity company Wiz this week — the biggest acquisition in Google’s…
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Flapping Airplanes on the future of AI: ‘We want to try really radically different things’
There’s been a bunch of exciting research-focused AI labs popping up in recent months, and Flapping Airplanes is…
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Where VCs think AI startups can win, even with OpenAI in the game
Vanessa Larco, partner at Premise and former partner at NEA, thinks 2026 will finally be the year of…
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Why January Ventures is funding underrepresented AI founders
While everyone’s chasing the next AI infrastructure play in San Francisco, some of the most defensible AI companies…
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A better way of thinking about the AI bubble
People often think about tech bubbles in apocalyptic terms, but it doesn’t have to be as serious as…
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The circular money problem at the heart of AI’s biggest deals
SoftBank and OpenAI announced a new 50-50 joint venture this week to sell enterprise AI tools in Japan under the…