Andreessen Horowitz is pausing its Talent x Opportunity fund and program, according to four sources familiar with the matter. The firm announced the initiative in 2020 to support founders who do not have access to traditional venture networks. Many of…
Solo VC investor Elad Gil stated on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt that the AI boom is one of the least predictable tech cycles he has ever witnessed. Gil is an investor in many of the most successful companies from the…
Cloud computing company Lambda has significantly deepened its relationship with Microsoft through a sizable AI infrastructure agreement. The Nvidia-backed firm announced a multibillion-dollar deal with Microsoft to deploy tens of thousands of Nvidia GPUs. The exact financial size of the…
Peter Williams, the former general manager of Trenchant, a division of defense contractor L3Harris that develops surveillance and hacking tools for Western governments, pleaded guilty last week to stealing some of those tools and selling them to a Russian broker.…
How much power is enough for AI? Nobody knows, not even OpenAI CEO Sam Altman or Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. This uncertainty has put software-first businesses like OpenAI and Microsoft in a difficult position. Much of the tech world has…
Locket, a private social networking app for friends, has scored a win with Gen Alpha users following the launch of its latest feature, Rollcall. The app lets friends share photos that appear in home screen widgets. It first hit the…
A Japanese trade organization representing publishers like Studio Ghibli wrote a letter to OpenAI last week. The organization called for the AI giant to stop training its AI models on their copyrighted content without permission. Studio Ghibli, the animation studio…
Lawmakers have called on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate FlockSafety, a company that operates license plate scanning cameras. They allege the company failed to implement cybersecurity protections, leaving its camera network exposed to hackers and spies. In a letter…
Apple has redesigned the web interface for its App Store, making it more usable for people who are not using Apple devices. Before this update, users could only view individual app pages they found through a search engine, with no…
Alphabet’s X moonshot factory is changing its approach to launching ambitious technology projects. It is increasingly spinning them out as independent companies rather than keeping them within the Alphabet corporate structure. This shift was revealed by X’s leader, Astro Teller,…
