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Getting attention is easy now, getting people to stick is the hard part — a16z partner
18 insights: Why he hasn't Googled in ages, the one question he asks anyone who adopts a new app, and why Siri only gets so many chances to try one more…
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A security flaw is weaponized in hours now, not months, says Databricks CEO
16 arguments: Why he puts existential AI risk near zero, the four conditions he says would make self-improvement real, and why he thinks most companies…
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"None of us like the product": Lightfield CEO on pivoting away from 25M users
15 lessons: Why he walked away from a 25M-user product, the office space he traded for 10 customers, and the pricing experiment nobody would touch
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Greg Brockman: OpenAI put 25% of its production engineers onto defending its own systems
15 insights: why he now calls this the AGI era, what the Hugging Face breach showed about capability in the wrong hands, and the assistant he says we…
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Rayan Krishnan: his team used 10x more in tokens than it paid in salary
14 takeaways: why Llama 4 topped the public benchmarks and failed the private ones, the Fortune 10 firm whose best hours are now 4 to 6 p.m., and Ben…
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Gavin Baker: he asked every AI company for one number getting worse, and nobody had one | a16z
Why he thinks compute stays short through 2028, the 30% cut Kimi's license takes out of open-weights revenue, and the case for moving a growing share of…
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Jen Kha: "AI has solved software" — so a16z raised $1.1 billion for everything below it | a16z
Hardware went from almost none of a16z's pitches to more than 20%, why fewer than 2% of US electricians are trained on DC power, and what Korea and El…
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