Kalanick just hired the guy who made AI fast enough to run on your face to build foundation models for robots that cook, mine, and move things. Vikas Chandra, Meta's AI lead for smart glasses, joins Travis Kalanick's Atoms as VP of AI to build "foundation models for the physical world"
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The people building the thing are asking everyone to stop building the thing — and the market is rewarding the companies they were about to replace.
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When your competitors agree with you in public, you've either proposed something brilliant or something inevitable.
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Chinese AI companies are raising money faster than American VCs can write the checks — and they're doing it in Hong Kong, not Silicon Valley. Zhipu AI closed a $4 billion follow-on share placement in Hong Kong, then announced plans for another $5 billion round just weeks later
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The U.S. is about to do something it hasn't managed in crypto's entire 15-year run — write rules that actually make sense. The Senate will vote on the CLARITY Act September 15, 2026, with Coinbase CEO reporting the bill nearing the 60-vote threshold needed to pass
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The people building the future can't agree on whether it's going to bury half the population — and both sides think their certainty is obvious.
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Andreessen Horowitz just wrote a quarter-billion-dollar check for a company building missiles — the kind of sentence that would have sounded absurd in 2015, now just sounds like Tuesday.
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The man who promised AGI just admitted his industry can't even explain why a chatbot is good. Sam Altman told Bloomberg the AI industry has done a "terrible job" communicating AI benefits, as 40% of Americans now expect negative societal impact and 71% oppose data centers in their neighborhoods.
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The first blockchain-native national bank just got the government's blessing, and a16z crypto wrote the check before the ink dried.
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A chip orchestration layer just became more valuable than most chip companies. Gimlet raised $300 million at a $3 billion valuation, led by Andreessen Horowitz, to build software that routes AI workloads across different chip architectures
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The same rails moving money to abuela in Guatemala are now being repurposed to compete with Chase and Goldman. Félix (also called Felix Pago) closed a $200M Series B led by a16z to expand beyond WhatsApp-based remittances into lending and savings products
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The biggest names in crypto just told the SEC how to approve products faster without writing new rules.
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The remittance industry just got its first credible challenger to Western Union's 175-year stranglehold, and it's running on code instead of physical storefronts. Felix Pago raised $200M in Series B led by a16z to scale stablecoin-based remittances and expand AI-powered financial services
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The a16z stamp of approval just landed on X's AI bot while enterprises are still figuring out whether to let it touch their Office 365 tenant. Grok Bot can now directly access and manipulate Microsoft services, moving beyond chat into actual workplace automation
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Silicon Valley's most influential crypto firm just told you where the real money is — and it's not in another chatbot. Andreessen Horowitz raised $1.1B for its new Machine Age Fund targeting AI infrastructure — chips, data centers, robotics — then quietly expanded its growth fund to $8.5B.
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The man who wrote $4 billion checks at Andreessen Horowitz is now writing smaller ones — and that might tell you more about where AI is actually headed than any mega-round announcement.
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The smart money just told you exactly where the AI economy breaks down: it's not the models, it's the metal. Andreessen Horowitz raised $1.1B for its Machine Age Fund targeting AI infrastructure: chips, data centers, and robotics, not LLMs or software layers
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While everyone fights over whose model is smarter, a16z just bet $1.1 billion that the real winners build the shovels. Andreessen Horowitz raised $1.1B for its Machine Age Fund, targeting chips, data centers, and robotics infrastructure.
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While Western VCs tighten their belts, the IFC is doubling down on Africa's startup infrastructure — a bet that emerging markets will build the next wave of digital infrastructure before Silicon Valley figures out what's happening.
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The same cameras venture capital calls "public safety infrastructure" are getting sledgehammered in the street.
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