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Co-founder and general partner of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), a major investor in technology and AI startups.
Meta launched Muse Wonder at $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens, a dev.to post says. The same post puts it roughly level with Claude Opus 5.5 on input, so the saving depends on the model your traffic runs on today.
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The Machine Age Fund treats power and heat as the binding constraint on AI scaling, which hands hardware founders a dedicated buyer and hands the rest of us a rack-power forecast that a16z produced itself.
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The Horowitz Andreessen Academy opens in September 2027 with about 50 students, no accreditation and no degree. Its ten founding partners, among them OpenAI, Nvidia and Palantir, help shape what gets taught.
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Days before Trump, Xi and the big lab chiefs meet at the White House on AI policy, a Fortune essay attacks the race argument with an estimate that Chinese companies hold about 5 percent of the world's AI computing capacity.
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Most of the money reached the South Dakota senator as outside spending from Defend American Jobs, a group funded by a super PAC financed by Andreessen Horowitz, in a state whose legislature has already made hyperscalers pay more for water and power.
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Outside money in Alex Bores' House primary topped $40 million, and the largest disclosed sum, Anthropic's $20 million, funded a PAC in his corner. He lost anyway, and his new nonprofit starts with $10 million.
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Zuckerberg's 6,500-word essay promised everyone a personal agent. The pushback was about Meta's record, not the model, which is a messaging constraint for anyone shipping agents.
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A16z's post to limited partners puts losses at 15 cents for every dollar invested and its Databricks stake at 20% of total AUM, and it uses both figures to argue that institutional venture allocations are too small.
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Healey's order makes a signed community benefits agreement the price of entry to state permitting for anything above 25 megawatts, while the cost of missing the 100% clean-power test stays unpriced until MassDEP writes that rule by December 31.
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Gates says technology executives are privately worried about AI's labor effects and are telling each other to stay quiet to protect fundraising, which leaves the people who must staff 2027 planning without a policy timetable.
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AI made production cheap and pushed the bill downstream onto review and integration work the buyer already pays for, which is where Webb expects the correction even as Bain finds 90% of budgets still rising.
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The investor who built Andreessen Horowitz's life-science practice now runs a firm with no associates and AI handling operations, which changes who reads a health founder's deck and how much attrition a single check has to survive.
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Bernie Sanders and Thomas Massie are both drafting bills against Flock Safety, whose installed base sits with more than 6,000 separate municipal buyers; the annual renewal is the fragile term in that business.
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Crypto, AI and betting firms are behind record corporate election spending, and Trump is adding a $400 million super PAC. The CLARITY Act still needs 60 Senate votes.
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Public Citizen counts $517 million of corporate spending on House and Senate races in 15 months, with crypto, tech and gaming supplying at least $294 million of it.
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Florida's Republican gubernatorial nominee ran on ratepayer costs while taking AI PAC money. The NRSC calls data centers a midterm "sleeper issue." Cost allocation is now a schedule risk.
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Claire Stapleton, who helped organize Google's 20,000-person 2018 walkout, has a memoir out as the company signs defense and ICE work and reshuffles its AI leadership.
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A nearly year-old interlocking-directorate inquiry names Databricks and Fivetran. The usual remedy is a resignation, which makes a board seat a term of investment worth repricing.
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