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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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TechSilicon Valley is at war with itself over Kamala Harris vs. Trump, fighting in the open and spending millions to win
By Jessica MathewsJuly 27, 2024
J.D. Vance stands at a podium.
PoliticsPeter Thiel gave J.D. Vance his start in venture capital. But a former colleague doesn’t remember ever seeing him in the office
By Seamus WebsterJuly 26, 2024
NewslettersHow Sequoia’s Roelof Botha is thinking about the iconic VC firm’s future
By Allie GarfinkleJuly 26, 2024
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TechStartup with ‘radical’ concept for AI chips emerges from stealth with $15 million to try to challenge Nvidia
By Jeremy KahnJuly 26, 2024
Venture capitalist David Sacks speaking at a podium
TechA post about Kamala Harris pushed a long-simmering feud between tech execs into the open
By Paolo ConfinoJuly 25, 2024
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NewslettersExclusive: Chainguard raises $140 million Series C
By Allie GarfinkleJuly 25, 2024
Silhouette of Carta CEO Henry Ward on orange background.
TechExclusive: Carta’s COO to leave the company after a year
By Jessica MathewsJuly 24, 2024
HealthSergey Brin is using money from selling his Tesla shares to bankroll a startup developing hallucinogenic mental-health treatments
By Marco Quiroz-GutierrezJuly 23, 2024
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TechInside Iconiq Growth, one of Silicon Valley’s most mysterious venture capital funds that just closed a $5.8B startup war chest
By Jessica MathewsJuly 22, 2024
NewslettersExclusive: Lauri Moore joins Bessemer as partner
By Allie GarfinkleJuly 22, 2024
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AIThe U.S. reigns supreme in AI startups while China ensures chatbots have ‘core socialist values’
By Jason MaJuly 21, 2024
Arnold Schwarzenegger (then California governor) and Elon Musk look at a Tesla Roadster in June 2008 at Tesla Motors in San Carlos, California.
Tech‘Tesla death watch’: How Elon Musk’s EV maker survived its early years despite major glitches in its first vehicle 
By Kenneth K. BoyerJuly 19, 2024
empty chairs surround a brightly lit conference stage
NewslettersWhat GPs and LPs say to each other behind closed doors
By Allie GarfinkleJuly 19, 2024
Speech bubbles showing the word Hello written in different languages.
NewslettersDeepL, long a leader in translation tech, finally embraces LLMs
By Sage LazzaroJuly 18, 2024
ConferencesInside Sequoia’s Steve Jobs strategy: How the fabled VC firm sniffs out unconventional diamonds in the rough
By Seamus WebsterJuly 18, 2024
NewslettersHow to communicate with Gen Z: “Be more vulnerable than you think you need to be”
By Allie GarfinkleJuly 18, 2024
NewslettersAre AI’s lofty valuations justified? Some VCs think it is
By Luisa BeltranJuly 17, 2024
TechRent the Runway cofounder Jennifer Fleiss on why cofounder relationships are critical for mental wellness in the startup game
By Alexandra SternlichtJuly 16, 2024
TechHow VCs from Alphabet’s CapitalG to Norwest are coping with a dead IPO landscape: ‘We’re not here to time the market’ 
By Leo SchwartzJuly 16, 2024
Grindr CEO George Arison
TechWhy Grindr’s CEO believes ‘synthetic employees’ are about to unleash a brutal talent war for tech startups
By Jason Del ReyJuly 16, 2024
TechTech talent and killer powder: The recipe that startups say is fueling the rise of Utah’s Silicon Slopes
By Luisa BeltranJuly 16, 2024
NewslettersWhat you need to know about J.D. Vance’s VC career
By Allie GarfinkleJuly 16, 2024
TechAgility Robotics’ humanoid Digit robot is working hard at its first real job—at a Spanx factory
By Sharon GoldmanJuly 15, 2024
TechWiz CEO says ‘consolidation in the security market is truly a necessity’ as reports swirl of $23 billion Google acquisition
By Jessica MathewsJuly 15, 2024
NewslettersA new credit card for NYC millionaires has over 30,000 people on the waitlist
By Allie GarfinkleJuly 15, 2024
NewslettersAI startups raised $24 billion globally in Q2, but the question remains: Where will value in AI accrue? Here’s one VC’s (slightly) contrarian take.
By Allie GarfinkleJuly 12, 2024
CommentaryHow we raised $100 million for my Silicon Valley startup in a down market
By Amir KhanJuly 11, 2024
NewslettersExclusive: Armada lands $40 million in funding round led by Microsoft’s M12
By Allie GarfinkleJuly 11, 2024
Andy Dunn, American entrepreneur and the co-founder of Bonobos Inc
LeadershipAsk Andy: Can generative AI solve a startup’s problems?
By Andy DunnJuly 11, 2024
Success‘Disrupt yourself’ permeates business thinking so much we’ve lost sight of an important fact: Change and improvement are two different things
By Ashley GoodallJuly 10, 2024
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