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axios.com - Dan Primack - Fed probe of Andreessen Horowitz cuts to core of venture capital
Fed probe of Andreessen Horowitz cuts to core of venture capital
Axios

The maxim is attributed to legendary venture capitalist John Doerr, who was seeking to accentuate the overlapping nature of startup investing. Now it might become fodder for the Justice Department. Driving the news: DOJ reportedly is investigating…

techcrunch.com - Marina Temkin - DOJ's probe into Andreessen Horowitz over board seats baffles VCs
DOJ's probe into Andreessen Horowitz over board seats baffles VCs
TechCrunch

The Justice Department has launched a probe into Andreessen Horowitz regarding the firm's partners serving on the boards of competing companies, Bloomberg reported. The nearly year-long investigation focuses specifically on the firm's board seats…

thestandard.com.hk - The Standard 英文虎報 - Value Partners, Insilico Medicine, Pudong jointly launch 'AI+Life Sciences' CVC fund
Value Partners, Insilico Medicine, Pudong jointly launch 'AI+Life Sciences' CVC fund
The Standard

Hong Kong–based asset management company Value Partners Group (0806) announced on Tuesday its plan to jointly establish a yuan-denominated industry cooperation fund focused on “AI+Life Sciences” with three other entities.

fastcompany.com - Patrick J. McGinnis - VCs live by FOMO. Smart founders use that against them
VCs live by FOMO. Smart founders use that against them
Fast Company

In June 2026, a social crypto startup called Fomo raised $75 million in a round led by Index Ventures. The company's name is apt: It builds virality (and FOMO) by allowing users to follow and copy top traders' moves on the platform. The FOMO…

forbes.com - Robert E. Williams - The Missing Layer Of The AI Revolution: Public Trust
The Missing Layer Of The AI Revolution: Public Trust
Forbes

Robert E. Williams is a global business and venture executive; Board Director at Anza Capital; Founder & CEO at Elite Eight Strategies. Artificial intelligence is reshaping nearly every industry. Yet amid the excitement around breakthrough models…

fortune.com - Allie Garfinkle - AI gets its own 'boiler room' scandal
AI gets its own 'boiler room' scandal
Fortune

This was a headline I'd been waiting to see. “Boiler room raised $74 million selling retirees SpaceX, Anduril, Anthropic, and Perplexity while reaping ‘massive hidden fees,' SEC claims,” my colleague Amanda Gerut wrote last…

techcrunch.com - Dominic-Madori Davis - Reach Capital raises $265M Fund V to back AI founders building to 'expand human potential'
Reach Capital raises $265M Fund V to back AI founders building to 'expand human potential'
TechCrunch

Reach Capital announced Tuesday the close of a $265 million Fund V. The thesis of the 11-year-old, San Francisco firm is to back founders building AI applications that can “expand human potential,” Tony Wan, head of platform at Reach…

fortune.com - Jeremy Kahn - David Sacks accuses Anthropic's Dario Amodei of trying to create a 'DMV for AI.' But plenty of industries thrive despite safety regulation.
David Sacks accuses Anthropic's Dario Amodei of trying to create a 'DMV for AI.' But plenty of industries thrive despite safety regulation.
Fortune

Hello and welcome to Eye on AI. In this edition: OpenAI details two week training pause, more security controls following Hugging Face hack. Anthropic on course for $65 billion in annual revenue. OpenAI debuts ChatGPT for teens. Can AI models…

axios.com - Lucinda Shen - Etched's $21b valuation, Smack's battlefield software, and Goldman's real estate buy
Etched's $21b valuation, Smack's battlefield software, and Goldman's real estate buy
Axios

• Etched, a San Jose, Calif.-based builder of frontier inference clusters, raised $700m at a $21b valuation. Jane Street led, joined by Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia, a16z, Tiger Global, Bain Capital Ventures, Neo, Primary, Stripes, Positive Sum…

thestandard.com.hk - Vanessa Ho - Death of HK-born crypto tycoon Harry Yeh sparks suspicions of wrench attack
Death of HK-born crypto tycoon Harry Yeh sparks suspicions of wrench attack
The Standard

Hong Kong cryptocurrency tycoon Harry Yeh Chun-tak recently plunged to his death from his mansion in Paraguay, sparking suspicions amid a growing trend of extortions and murders of crypto asset holders. SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT A well-known…

forbes.com - Danielle Chemtob - Forbes Daily: SpaceX Rallies As Institutional Investors Reveal Stakes
Forbes Daily: SpaceX Rallies As Institutional Investors Reveal Stakes
Forbes

Elizabeth Stein went from selling muffin mix out of her apartment to closing one of the largest recent deals in the natural foods industry. Stein agreed to sell her Purely Elizabeth brand of granolas, oatmeals and cereals to Italian chocolate and…

sfist.com - Leanne Maxwell - Presidio Army Barracks to Become 40,000-Square-Foot Coworking Space
Presidio Army Barracks to Become 40,000-Square-Foot Coworking Space
SFist

Boutique coworking provider Canopy is turning a former Army barracks in the Presidio into a 40,000-square-foot workspace for individual workers and small companies, with a cafe, gym, private offices, and conference rooms. Bay Area workers will soon…

forbes.com - Ihor Hamal - The Hidden Cost Of The AI Prototype Boom
The Hidden Cost Of The AI Prototype Boom
Forbes

Ihor Hamal, COO at SapientPro. Expert in automating repetitive workflows across video, image, voice, and document processing. ​At investor meetings, founders increasingly present visually impeccable, interactive interfaces built over a…

adweek.com - Adweek Staff - The IP Moat: How Sahara Lotti Built and Defended Lashify
The IP Moat: How Sahara Lotti Built and Defended Lashify
ADWEEK

The future of brands gets decided here. Join the industry's top marketers at Brandweek for the ideas, insights, and connections shaping what's next. Get your ticket. In this episode of Adspeak by ADWEEK, host Audrey Kemp sits down with Sahara…

forbes.com - Jurin AI Contributor - Forged In Japan: How Jurin AI Is Building AI For The Real World
Forged In Japan: How Jurin AI Is Building AI For The Real World
Forbes

The hard part of enterprise AI isn't a clever demo. It's earning enough trust to let the system loose on real work—and that, a young Tokyo company argues, is an engineering problem before it is an intelligence one. Front row, from left: Rise…

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