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Andreessen Horowitz Adds $1.75B to Growth Fund, Bringing Total to $8.5B

The expansion comes less than a week after the firm raised $1.1 billion for its Machine Age Fund, signaling aggressive positioning in an AI-driven market where startups scale faster and demand more capital than ever.

By Arjun S. Mehta·Sep 1, 2026·4 min read
Startups

Clipto Reaches $250M Valuation With Local-First AI Search for Video Libraries

The San Francisco and Asia-based startup indexes terabytes of user content locally, betting that media search can remain a standalone produc…

Mei-Lin Tan ·   · 5m
Policy

Brussels Brings ChatGPT, Reddit, and Roblox Under Digital Services Act

Three platforms now face the EU's strictest content moderation and safety obligations, with penalties reaching 6 percent of global revenue f…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
Policy

Could AI Starve Governments of the Bugs They Need to Hack Targets?

As large language models promise to accelerate vulnerability discovery and patching, a debate is brewing over whether law enforcement will l…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 7m
Startups

UBTech Sells 921 Full-Size Humanoids in Six Months as Robot Revenue Surges

The Hong Kong-listed robotics firm flipped its revenue mix toward industrial humanoids, with embodied AI products now driving nearly half of…

Wei Zhang ·   · 5m
Policy

ChatGPT Now Faces High-Risk Designation Under Europe's Digital Services Act

OpenAI's flagship product joins Reddit and Roblox under stricter EU oversight, triggering obligations around minors, mental health, and ille…

Mei-Lin Tan ·   · 5m
AI

Nvidia Bets on MediaTek to Keep Hyperscalers Inside Its Data Center Orbit

A $3.5 billion stake turns a Taiwanese chip designer into a gateway for custom silicon that still speaks Nvidia's language.…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 7m
Products

Apple and Huawei Turn to Foldables as Global Smartphone Shipments Face 17% Drop

With the industry bracing for its steepest decline in years, two rivals are betting that bendable screens can revive stalled demand - just a…

Mei-Lin Tan ·   · 5m
AI

AI Moves From Backend to Player-Facing Features at China's Largest Gaming Convention

ChinaJoy 2026 reveals how artificial intelligence is expanding beyond development pipelines and into the hands of gamers themselves.…

Wei Zhang ·   · 5m
Startups

Stripe Walks Away from PayPal Deal After Stock Rally

Rising valuations and financing pressures kill what could have been one of the largest leveraged buyouts in fintech history.…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 4m
AI

Music Publishers Accuse Anthropic of Building Claude on Pirated Content

Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell allege the AI lab used illegal torrenting to acquire training data, escalating a legal battle that…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
Policy

Washington's Robot Tariffs Won't Slow China's Manufacturing Edge

New U.S. restrictions on foreign robotics and drones may reshape domestic markets, but they leave China's cost and production advantages int…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 6m
Policy

Two Arrests in Western Australia Crack Open TeamPCP Supply-Chain Campaign

Federal police charge alleged members of a hacking collective that seeded CI/CD pipelines with self-propagating malware across a thousand or…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
AI

Software Eats the Robot: Why Humanoid Intelligence Now Matters More Than Mechanics

As commercial deployments multiply across Asia, the ability to learn and adapt on the fly is separating practical robotics from engineering …

Wei Zhang ·   · 8m
AI

Meta Tests Robotic Arms to Automate Data Center Operations

The social media giant is piloting hardware from multiple vendors to handle cable swaps and server resets, aiming to control labor costs as …

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
AI

China's AI Bet Is on Deployment, Not Just Dominance

While the U.S. races to build frontier models, Beijing is embedding artificial intelligence into factories, vehicles, and everyday infrastru…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
Policy

Two Music Giants Accuse Anthropic of Mass Copyright Infringement

Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music are seeking up to $150,000 per infringed work as Claude's training data practices face mount…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
Startups

Auto Giants Pour Billions Into Humanoid Robots as EV Margins Collapse

Chinese carmakers are racing to replicate Tesla's robotics pivot, betting that machines can deliver the profits that vehicles no longer can.…

Wei Zhang ·   · 5m
Policy

Beijing's Chipmakers Take the Pentagon to Court

ChangXin Memory Technologies becomes the latest Chinese semiconductor firm to challenge its US blacklist designation, joining a wave of lega…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
Policy

Music Publishers Challenge Anthropic Over Training Data in High-Stakes IP Suit

Sony and Warner's lawsuit intensifies the collision between generative AI's data hunger and longstanding copyright norms, potentially shapin…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
AI

Beijing's Humanoid Robot Games Exposed the Hardware Gap China Still Needs to Close

While the country dominates AI software narratives, last week's competition revealed that building machines that can walk, run, and stay upr…

Wei Zhang ·   · 4m
AI

How Decades of Mining Automation Are Shaping Caterpillar's AI Strategy

The industrial giant is translating hard-won lessons from autonomous haul trucks and drills into enterprise AI deployment, backed by a $100 …

Marcus Halloran ·   · 5m
Products

Meta Patches Recording Loophole in AI Glasses After Privacy Outcry

The company will now disable camera functionality when users cover the LED indicator during capture, closing a workaround that enabled cover…

Priya Nair ·   · 4m
Policy

Europe's AI Dilemma: Building Capability or Renting It

As Anthropic's withdrawal earlier this year showed, the continent's dependence on US and Chinese infrastructure has real costs. But consensu…

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 5m
AI

EDM Producers Turn Forensic Sleuths as AI-Generated Tracks Flood Streaming Platforms

A grassroots movement of electronic musicians is developing technical methods to identify synthetic audio, as the line between human and alg…

Kenji Watanabe ·   · 5m