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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
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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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By Allie GarfinkleMarch 19, 2024
NewslettersExclusive: NEA hires Lila Tretikov, former Microsoft deputy CTO, as partner
By Allie GarfinkleMarch 18, 2024
CommentaryWe’ve analyzed 15 years of data for 200,000 founders and employees from the most successful tech companies ever built–and we’re certain a new boom in innovation is around the corner
By Martin MignotMarch 18, 2024
NewslettersAI, DEI, and…GLPs? Here’s what the tech elite were buzzing about at South by Southwest
By Kylie RobisonMarch 15, 2024
NewslettersExclusive: The Founder Mental Health Pledge is looking to create a turning point in startup culture
By Allie GarfinkleMarch 15, 2024
NewslettersJohn Collison on Stripe’s growth plans, the obsession over an IPO, and…a potential sibling cage match
By Allie GarfinkleMarch 14, 2024
Interloom CEO Fabian Jakobi
TechExclusive: A German AI startup hoping to be a UiPath killer secures $3 million in seed funding
By Jeremy KahnMarch 14, 2024
NewslettersBig banks have seen the most deposits from startups since SVB’s collapse—but there’s one startup in the mix
By Allie GarfinkleMarch 13, 2024
TechThe CEO of the Las Vegas agency behind Boring Company’s first tunnel system says his team will be ‘more involved’ after safety incidents
By Jessica MathewsMarch 12, 2024
NewslettersHow Andreessen Horowitz’s secret crypto gamble on Kickstarter has played out
By Allie GarfinkleMarch 12, 2024
NewslettersWhy cybersecurity companies may be especially well-suited to the tribulations of the public markets, according to Arctic Wolf CEO Nick Schneider
By Allie GarfinkleMarch 11, 2024
Adaptive AI cofounders Baptiste Pannier, Julien Launay, and Daniel Hesslow
TechTeam behind popular Falcon AI models unveils new startup with $20 million in funding aimed at helping companies tailor LLMs for business
By Jeremy KahnMarch 11, 2024
An image of a woman standing alone in a boardroom.
NewslettersFemale-founded companies accounted for 22.8% of 2023 total VC deal value—with one caveat
By Allie GarfinkleMarch 8, 2024
NewslettersQuantum computing isn’t magic—but could be the next big thing, say executives at the Montgomery Summit
By Allie GarfinkleMarch 7, 2024
NewslettersInspired Capital recently raised $330 million for its third fund—here’s what worked
By Allie GarfinkleMarch 6, 2024
NewslettersExclusive: Mews, hotel management software provider, is now a unicorn
By Allie GarfinkleMarch 4, 2024
Success‘College wasn’t for me’: Meet the 48-year-old self-made millionaire who launched a $225 million hairstyling empire as a stay-at-home mom
By Jane ThierMarch 3, 2024
TechThe startup behind the aspirational Hyperloop tunnel project in Northern Italy has struggled to pay employee salaries and rent this year, documents show
By Jessica MathewsMarch 2, 2024
CommentaryInside the Black business boom that’s reshaping America’s economic landscape
By Shaundell NewsomeMarch 1, 2024
Portrait of Brian Kinsella in brown background.
FinanceHe saw the horrors of PTSD after serving in Iraq. Now this former Goldman Sachs analyst has a startup aimed at improving mental health treatment
By Shawn TullyMarch 1, 2024
FeaturesHe was the billionaire founder of India’s most valuable startup. Now his firm has lost 95% of its value—and shareholders just voted him out
By Pallavi PundirMarch 1, 2024
TechMicrosoft, ex-Google CEO back startup that aims to make AI systems work as humans intended
By Rachel Metz and BloombergFebruary 29, 2024
NewslettersAs AI hype soars, VCs are tussling to figure out what’s real and what’s an illusion
By Allie GarfinkleFebruary 29, 2024
Photo collage of Elon Musk near The Boring Company tunnel and a tesla with clippings from OSHA documents regarding reported injuries at the construction sites.
Tech‘We have consistently flirted with death’: Elon Musk wanted the Boring Co. to build a tunnel system below Las Vegas. Former employees say they feared for their lives while working there
By Jessica MathewsFebruary 27, 2024
NewslettersSimpleClosure, the startup helping shut down other startups, has raised a $4 million seed round
By Allie GarfinkleFebruary 27, 2024
Marc Lore wears a t-shirt and jacket and sits onstage with a microphone
TechMarc Lore’s startup Wonder is opening food halls inside Walmart stores, in a sequel to his e-commerce startup’s $3 billion acquisition by Walmart
By Jason Del ReyFebruary 21, 2024
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TechAI startup Flower Labs, whose software allows AI models to be trained ‘at the edge,’ is valued at $100 million in new funding round
By Jeremy KahnFebruary 15, 2024
Monumental co-founders Sebastiaan Visser and Salar al-Khafaji
TechStartup emerges from stealth with $25 million for robots that lay bricks as fast as humans—and fill the huge shortage of laborers
By Jeremy KahnFebruary 15, 2024
NewslettersExclusive: What Y Combinator partner Dalton Caldwell is looking for, as YC releases new ‘Requests for Startups’
By Allie GarfinkleFebruary 14, 2024
TechTonight’s SpaceX launch—if successful—will be major milestone towards Elon Musk’s plan to send humans to Mars
By Jessica MathewsFebruary 13, 2024
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