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Elon Musk admits xAI ‘wasn’t built right’ as only 2 co-founders remain and its biggest AI bet stalls out

Nine of xAI’s 11 original co-founders, not including Musk, have left the company.

By Marco Quiroz-GutierrezMarch 16, 2026
AI is reviving tech sectors that VCs had all but forgotten
By Lily Mae LazarusMarch 16, 2026
Inside the Gen Z Shark Tank where influencers are becoming venture investors
By Leo SchwartzMarch 16, 2026
An Australian tech entrepreneur used AI to help create the first-ever bespoke cancer vaccine for a dog to treat his beloved pet Rosie
By Jason MaMarch 15, 2026
Travis Kalanick sees benefits of being in stealth mode for 8 years. ‘You build a culture of people that want to build and do not need to be famous’
By Jason MaMarch 14, 2026
Vinod Khosla sits on a blue chair
OpenAI’s original VC bet: How Vinod Khosla stepped in after Elon Musk balked
By Lily Mae LazarusMarch 13, 2026
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EconomyU.S. debt is competing with a record supply of corporate bonds, pushing up the cost of federal borrowing just as war spending piles up
By Jason MaMarch 16, 2026
CryptoSaylor’s strategy ramps up sales of preferred in latest Bitcoin purchase
By Melos Ambaye and BloombergMarch 16, 2026
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., scrunching his face.
LawFederal judge blocks RFK Jr.’s childhood vaccine cuts, says he likely broke the law
By The Associated Press and Mike StobbeMarch 16, 2026
Elon Musk, wearing a black DOGE hat, looks down and holds his chin in his hand.
Politics‘No, we didn’t’: DOGE staffer admits Elon Musk’s cost-cutting agency failed to reduce the federal deficit
By Sasha RogelbergMarch 16, 2026
Donald Trump
PoliticsTrump’s ‘Art of the Deal’ can’t reopen the Strait of Hormuz—and it’s threatening a recession
By Nick LichtenbergMarch 16, 2026
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CryptoBetting on 5-minute swings on Bitcoin price are the hot new thing on prediction markets
By Carlos GarciaMarch 16, 2026
Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel
InnovationPeter Thiel brings his Antichrist lectures to Rome — and Italian politicians are calling his ideas ‘scandalous’
By Tristan BoveMarch 16, 2026
U.S. President Donald Trump listens during a press conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky following their meeting at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club on December 28, 2025 in Palm Beach, Florida.
Politics‘Blackmail is also not what I wish for’: America’s allies are ghosting Trump on Strait of Hormuz
By Eva RoytburgMarch 16, 2026
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Tom Chi, founding partner of At One Ventures.
NewslettersWhy Silicon Valley falls prey to ‘charisma distortion,’ according to investor and Google X founding member Tom Chi
By Allie GarfinkleAugust 19, 2024
SuccessMark Zuckerberg gave his ex-Facebook engineer startup advice at 2 a.m. over chess—now she’s a founder with over $8.5 million raised in funding
By Orianna Rosa RoyleAugust 17, 2024
Bizzy Cold Brew cofounders Andrew Healy and Alex French (right)
CommentaryHow we went from making cold brew coffee at home to producing 350,000 cups a day—and selling it via Target and Walmart
By Alex FrenchAugust 16, 2024
students and a teacher in a Primer school
NewslettersExclusive: Primer, a VC-backed startup helping teachers launch their own microschools, notches legislative victory in Florida
By Allie GarfinkleAugust 16, 2024
CommentaryInvestors, entrepreneurs, and good ideas are becoming collateral damage as the U.S. and China battle over dual-use tech
By Henny SenderAugust 16, 2024
The three founders of Photon Health sitting on a brown sofa and posing for a photo.
TechThis startup believes shopping around for prescription drugs should be as easy as shopping on Amazon. The future of a $700 billion industry is at stake
By Jason Del ReyAugust 15, 2024
NewslettersGlobal fintech investment falls to $51.9 billion in the first half of 2024, says KPMG data
By Allie GarfinkleAugust 15, 2024
NewslettersExclusive: Redpoint-backed VoyceMe has raised $10 million in seed funding to tap the $100 billion-plus market for anime, manga, and webtoons 
By Allie GarfinkleAugust 14, 2024
CommentarySam Altman warned OpenAI will ‘steamroll’ AI startups. I run one. Here’s why I’m not worried
By Eric OlsonAugust 13, 2024
NewslettersOlympic gold medalist Kristen Faulkner describes her decision to leave venture capital: ‘There was a moment actually’
By Allie GarfinkleAugust 13, 2024
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NewslettersHonoring Susan Wojcicki’s intrepid bet on Google as an early employee
By Allie GarfinkleAugust 12, 2024
SuccessSee what Google’s original office looked like when it started in Susan Wojcicki’s garage
By Jason MaAugust 10, 2024
NewslettersThe VCs for Kamala Zoom fundraiser highlights just how quickly this election has shifted
By Allie GarfinkleAugust 9, 2024
NewslettersFlat and down rounds have hit a decade high, according to new PitchBook data
By Allie GarfinkleAugust 8, 2024
NewslettersExclusive: BiggerPockets nets majority investment from TCG
By Allie GarfinkleAugust 7, 2024
TechGenerative AI is getting kicked off its pedestal — it will be painful but it’s not a bad thing
By Sharon GoldmanAugust 6, 2024
NewslettersVCs are unfazed by recession jitters—here’s why
By Allie GarfinkleAugust 6, 2024
TechNvidia challenger Groq just raised $640 million for its AI chips. Its college dropout CEO says a viral moment was ‘a game changer’
By Sharon GoldmanAugust 5, 2024
Entrepreneurs David Sinkinson (left) and his brother Chris (right).
CommentaryHow we built our bootstrapped startup different and sold it for $40M. (Hint: We ignored some myths)
By David SinkinsonAugust 5, 2024
Ritik Malhotra, Savvy Wealth founder and CEO.
NewslettersExclusive: Savvy Wealth closes Series A at $26.5 million
By Allie GarfinkleAugust 5, 2024
Portrait of Noam Shazeer
NewslettersCharacter.AI’s Noam Shazeer on what we know about AI—and what we don’t
By Allie GarfinkleAugust 2, 2024
NewslettersExclusive: SOCi crosses $100 million in ARR
By Allie GarfinkleAugust 1, 2024
April Koh smiling while sitting onstage
NewslettersBecoming a mom ‘renewed’ Spring Health cofounder April Koh’s mission to build her $3.3 billion AI-powered mental health startup
By Emma Hinchliffe and Nina AjemianJuly 31, 2024
April Koh smiling while sitting onstage
LeadershipExclusive: AI-powered mental health startup Spring Health boosts valuation to $3.3 billion with $100 million Series E raise
By Emma HinchliffeJuly 31, 2024
David Yuan, founder and partner at Tidemark, smiling for a portrait in the outdoors
NewslettersWhat it takes for a vertical SaaS company to win in the AI age, according to Tidemark’s David Yuan
By Allie GarfinkleJuly 31, 2024
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TechCameo went from $1 billion unicorn with major investors to a $600,000 court settlement it can’t afford to pay
By Paolo ConfinoJuly 30, 2024
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NewslettersHeadcount at VC-backed startups has been declining, per new report from Redpoint
By Allie GarfinkleJuly 30, 2024
NewslettersWhat links Olympic swimmers and startup founders, with two-time medalist and VC Larsen Jensen
By Allie GarfinkleJuly 29, 2024
SuccessBillionaire CEO Jay Chaudhry made his employees into millionaires after selling his startup—’people were going crazy’
By Chloe BergerJuly 28, 2024
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SuccessSilicon Valley investors ‘glorify youth, and it’s a misallocation of capital,’ VC says
By Jane ThierJuly 28, 2024
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