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@a16z [3/18/2026]: Jacob Helberg says sovereignty is defined by whoever controls the hardware of the internet: "If you have a foreign government that controls and can instrumentalize its tech companies that operate the hardware of the internet—it fundamentally challenges our traditional conception @a16z [3/19/2026]: Why OpenClaw will create jobs: " I can't see these as doing anything other than creating a lot more jobs. Like there's just so much more stuff that needs to get built and needs to get managed." "The same thing happened with cloud, right? When cloud came around, I remember https
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@a16z [3/18/2026]: Jacob Helberg says one of Europe’s biggest challenges to building companies is cultural: they’re just not risk-takers like Americans are. "It's really hard for Europe to put those pieces together because the culture in Europe has not been favorable to encouraging risk-taking, ht
Nothing CEO Carl Pei says AI agents will eventually replace apps, shifting smartphones toward systems that understand intent and act on a user's behalf.
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@a16z [3/18/2026]: Jacob Helberg: The future will belong to the builders. "You need to be able to make things, and the national security strategy that we released actually has a line that's very apt: The future will belong to builders." "What the tariffs do is they change the economics of https:/
Nvidia's networking business raked in $11 billion last quarter despite getting significantly less fanfare than chips and gaming.
@midjourney [3/18/2026]: Midjourney Weekly Office Hours - 3/18 https://t.co/IkGHJ7Puz4
Sec. Scott Bessent, President Donald Trump, and David Sacks during The White House Digital Assets Summit in Washington, DC, on Friday, March 7, 2025. | Chris Kleponis/CNP/Bloomberg via Getty Images Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter for Verge subscribers about the politics of technology and the technology of politics - now landing in your inbox on Wednesdays! If someone has forwarded this email to you, and you're not a Verge subscriber yet, you should sign up right here, and not j...
When an Australian tech entrepreneur with no background in biology or medicine said ChatGPT helped save his dog from cancer, the story spread with the kind of validation Big Tech has long craved: proof that AI will revolutionize medicine and take on one of its deadliest diseases. The reality, as usual, is more complicated. The version of the story that made the rounds online, first reported by The Australian, was relatively straightforward. In 2024, Sydney-based Paul Conyngham learned that hi...
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Patreon CEO Jack Conte says AI companies should pay creators for training data, arguing their fair use defense falls apart when they license content from major publishers.
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@a16z [3/18/2026]: Payback isn't everything More charts: https://t.co/t68ntAgQiM https://t.co/4OQDyQjcPh
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One Microsoft product was approved despite years of concerns about its security.
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@a16z [3/18/2026]: Kalshi co-founder Luana Lopes Lara: "I think that politics are going to get better because you're going to have a way faster feedback loop on the messaging and the policies." "Right now when a candidate says 10 things and they win or they lose, you're trying to make one https://
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Rebel Audio is a new all-in-one podcasting tool that allows creators to record podcasts, edit, clip content for social, and publish episodes, all without ever leaving the platform.
@runwayml [3/18/2026]: Get started: https://t.co/iP3aqBCOtm
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@a16z [3/18/2026]: Kalshi co-founder Tarek Mansour on the growing demand for better sources of information: "There wasn't a real pain 10 or 15 years ago in the way there is pain in the last few years." "I think the country is more polarized. I would say the world is more polarized." "Social http
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From summarizing emails, drafting content, organizing data, and tracking meetings, here are all the best Gemini features in Google Workspace.
Artificial intelligence models are multiplying fast, and competition is stiff. With so many players crowding the space, which one will be the best — and who decides that? Arena, formerly LM Arena, has emerged as the de facto public leaderboard for frontier LLMs, influencing funding, launches, and PR cycles. In just seven months, the startup went from a UC Berkeley PhD research […]
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Kaggle (@kaggle) shared: Ready to build? Learn more here:
Reasoning benchmarks are vital for measuring progress on structured tasks and when we share methods openly, the entire community moves faster. To put this into practice, we’re excited to announce the NVIDIA Nemotron Model Reasoning Challenge hosted by @NVIDIAAIDev and powered by
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@a16z [3/18/2026]: Anish Acharya says now that software is no longer a precious resource, it becomes ubiquitous—and often disposable: “It’s sort of like generative music. I think that music is incredible, but there are not that many people who make music that is disposable, for good reason. A lot
@LumaLabsAI [3/18/2026]: You wanted more time. We're giving it. Deadline extended to March 27th → https://t.co/BjkytewA9R https://t.co/O8cBOrF2fr
The company has raised $12 million in seed funding to build an AI operating system for enterprise.
With its Series A, Sequen is bringing its proprietary AI ranking and personalization technology to large consumer business.
AI collaboration startup Cove is shutting down after its team joined Microsoft, with service ending April 1 and customer data set for deletion.
@a16z [3/18/2026]: Anish Acharya says there's an "unbundling" of product management happening: “There was a part of product management that was very technical—that was sort of pointing people in the direction of a market need.” “If you look at the big labs, you’ll see the product managers there h
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@runwayml [3/18/2026]: A breakthrough in real-time video generation. As a research preview developed with @NVIDIA and shared at @NVIDIAGTC this week, we trained a new real-time video model running on Vera Rubin. HD videos generate instantly, with time-to-first-frame under 100ms. Unlocking an entirely @runwayml [3/18/2026]: Introducing Runway's Big Ad Contest For Products That Don't Exist. Your chance to make any ad you can imagine for up to $100K in cash prizes. No client notes. No producers saying no. Just 7 briefs to choose from and 2 weeks to make your wildest concepts come to life. Big ideas ht @runwayml [3/19/2026]: Join us in New York on April 2 for a Runway Characters Hackathon. In this workshop you'll learn how to create your own custom real-time video agents and bring them directly into your apps, websites, products and experiences. Register now at the link below. https://t.co/PALFauG9 @LumaLabsAI [3/18/2026]: Dream Brief submissions rolling in. Made with Luma.
Artificial intelligence models are multiplying fast, and competition is stiff. With so many players crowding the space, which one will be the best — and who decides that? Arena, formerly LM Arena, has emerged as the de facto public leaderboard for frontier LLMs, influencing funding, launches, and PR cycles. In just seven months, the startup went from a UC Berkeley PhD research […]
@a16z [3/18/2026]: In the 1990s and 2000s, email “replaced” physical mail and changed the nature of correspondence. The same thing is happening right now with customer attention. If you think AI is just going to “replace” the call center agent, you’re stuck thinking about first-order effects. AI