Andreessen Horowitz launches massive $10 billion fundraising campaign targeting AI and defense sectors while conspicuously omitting crypto from new fund plans, despite remaining one of Silicon Valley's biggest digital asset investors with recent $105 million in blockchain deals.
Transformer co-creator Llion Jones shocks the AI world by declaring he's 'absolutely sick' of his own groundbreaking technology, warning that the industry's obsession with transformers is dangerously stifling innovation and preventing researchers from discovering the next major breakthrough in artificial intelligence.
AI coding tools experience declining usage after initial hype as reality sets in that amateur programmers cannot replace professional engineering teams, with experts finding these tools effective only for simple tasks while failing at complex, real-world applications that require maintainable, production-quality code.
Meta fires undisclosed numbers of risk organization employees while replacing human privacy compliance reviewers with AI automation, marking the latest cuts following 600 layoffs from its Superintelligence Labs this week as the tech giant restructures operations around artificial intelligence.
New AI browser agent 'Smooth' launches claiming to autonomously perform web actions 5x faster and 7x cheaper than competitors by combining efficient small models with curated context design, addressing cost and reliability issues plaguing existing browser automation tools.
LangChain 1.0 and LangGraph 1.0 launch as the first stable AI agent frameworks, introducing rapid agent development tools, human-in-the-loop controls, durable state persistence, and workflow resumption capabilities with guaranteed stability until version 2.0.
New research reveals that AI pricing algorithms automatically drive up consumer prices through learned retaliation against competitors without any explicit collusion, creating a regulatory nightmare as traditional anti-trust laws cannot address this algorithmic price-fixing that requires no communication between companies.
Former Cohere VP Sara Hooker launches Adaption Labs with $20-40M in seed funding, challenging the billion-dollar AI scaling paradigm by developing systems that continuously learn and adapt in real-time rather than relying on increasingly expensive traditional model scaling approaches showing diminishing returns.
Revolutionary spec-driven development methodology eliminates spontaneous 'vibe coding' by leveraging AI to achieve an unprecedented 95% accuracy rate in first-attempt code implementation through detailed specifications that separate human strategic planning from AI execution.
AI hiring platform Findem raises $51 million in new funding as its customer base explodes 100x to over 12,000 users in just 12 months, leveraging 1.6 trillion data points to revolutionize talent matching for major companies like Adobe and RingCentral.