Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi says we already have all the intelligence we need, and the opportunity now is applying it productively: "I think ...

US construction productivity fell from 1970 to 2020 while the rest of the economy got more productive, and a 1-year-old startup called Unlim...

Joe Liemandt of Alpha School on why AI is today's 1910 tractor moment, and why parents once again have to rethink their kids' future: "In 1...

The length of software tasks AI agents can complete has doubled roughly every 7 months since 2019, and recent models are moving even faster,...

About a decade ago, Databricks got an acquisition offer at roughly six times its valuation at the time. CEO Ali Ghodsi tells the story of th...

What should school look like if AI can help students learn dramatically faster? Alpha School principal Joe Liemandt joins a16z's Erik Toren...

Ben Horowitz on Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi: "You just don't get this good of a market opportunity with this good of an entrepreneur. That's t...

Replit's Amjad Masad with Gagan Biyani on how agents will reshape the way companies work: bureaucracy runs in the background, people get tru...

Computer use is becoming faster than humans, and cheaper too OpenAI's Ari Weinstein: "We've gotten computer use now to a place where it's f...

OpenAI's James Sun and Ari Weinstein on the AI adoption gap between San Francisco and the average American business, and why agentic compute...

OpenAI's James Sun and Ari Weinstein on why UI isn't going away: humans are hardwired to do things with their own hands, and cheap software ...

Kyle Norton met with 30 to 40 vertical AI founders before deciding where to go next, and he chose to become CRO of @LassieAI. He first met ...

One of the best tells that a technology will change the world: it makes a chaotic entrance. In the 1980s, employees lied on procurement for...

OpenAI's computer-using agents can now operate almost any app the way a person does, clicking and typing through software that never got an ...

Tony Xu of @DoorDash on getting rejected by investors, competing against rivals with thousands of times more capital, and how founders can t...

One bottleneck for the AI buildout is skilled labor US manufacturers are working existing staff longer and paying up for new ones: - Hours...

Since 2019, imports of AI hardware have grown faster than US production in every category US production vs. imports: - Computers: +46% vs. ...

One answer to what's driving GPU rental prices: Token demand on OpenRouter is up ~27x since last November, from ~6T/week to ~165T/week Ope...

Ben Horowitz's message to early-stage founders on betting on yourself, the doubts that do the most damage, and why fear means you're doing i...

a16z's Alex Danco and Moses Sternstein on the AI buildout's missing supply response, and the one category where US production is actually sh...