The firm that made billions betting against credentials is now building a credential factory of its own. Andreessen Horowitz raised $42 million for the Horowitz Andreessen Academy, a for-profit alternative to college that trains AI engineers straight out of high school
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The AI assistant war just got its first casualty, and it's not a company—it's every business model built on you being too lazy to switch. Meta's Muse AI app hit #1 in US app stores, overtaking ChatGPT and forcing OpenAI to consider repackaging its agent tech in response
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The model factory is running faster, but the assembly line is just repackaging last year's breakthrough.
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While the West debates whether AI will replace workers, Southeast Asia's biggest super-app is training 30,000 drivers, delivery partners, and merchants to use it.
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OpenAI just tripled its influencer spend in two months, but the comments sections tell you everything about how this ends. OpenAI more than doubled ChatGPT-sponsored Instagram posts from 61 in June to 141 in August, targeting parenting, fitness, and lifestyle creators to normalize AI tools
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The internet's population is shifting, and humans are becoming the minority faster than anyone expected. Bad bot traffic grew 124% year-over-year, nine times faster than human traffic, according to DataDome's analysis of 1 trillion requests across 75,000+ sites
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The companies building Web4 are borrowing like it's 2008, and the interest rates show exactly who's got conviction and who's got collateral.
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The two men building the world's most powerful language models are about to tell the people who regulate war what AI means for global security. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will brief the UN Security Council on Wednesday in a dedicated meeting on AI's future
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The picks-and-shovels thesis just got a $3.5 billion proof point. Snorkel AI raised $350M Series E at a $3.5B valuation — tripling its value in less than two years as enterprises realize their data isn't model-ready.
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Anthropic just made the frontier model race cheaper to run, not just smarter to watch. Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5.5, claiming performance that rivals Fable 5.1 at 40 percent lower cost than its predecessor Opus 5
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When your AI proves theorems faster than humans can verify them, you've built something powerful—or something that just broke academia's trust infrastructure.
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OpenAI just published the playbook for how AI companies should let outsiders kick the tires on their models — which means they're expecting regulators to make it mandatory.
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The first consumer AI agent that people actually want to use launched without a keynote, and the design world is having a meltdown about the logo. Meta's Muse AI agent hit #1 on both iOS and Google Play stores, with over 902,000 downloads in six days since its September 8 launch
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Ten days ago they wanted to slow down. Today they're racing to the bottom on price. Anthropic and OpenAI both launched cheaper AI models within hours of each other, slashing costs while claiming better performance.
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The cost of intelligence just became the new battleground—and Anthropic fired the first shot that'll force every AI lab to answer.
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Wall Street just told you how AI agents will pay their bills—and banks are already worried about who picks up the tab when things go wrong. Goldman Sachs says AI agents are shifting from conversation to action, moving from answering questions to booking travel and making purchases
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Qualcomm just bet its mobile roadmap on AI that acts instead of answers — and the timing says everything about who's winning the agent race. Qualcomm unveiled two flagship mobile platforms at Snapdragon Summit, with CFO Akash Palkhiwala calling out "agentic AI" as the core focus — shares jumped 2%
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The most powerful AI companies just put $42 million behind a school that teaches everything except computer science. The Horowitz Andreessen Academy launches in San Francisco with $42M from a16z, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Nvidia to prepare students for the AI economy
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The people building the most powerful prediction engines in history will now brief the group responsible for preventing World War III. OpenAI's Sam Altman, Anthropic's Dario Amodei, and China's DeepSeek will address the UN Security Council on AI risks this week in an unprecedented gathering
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The AI labs racing to build superintelligence just agreed to let their competitors look under the hood.
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