Will the DOJ’s investigation into a16z spook other VCs?

On the latest episode of Equity, we wonder why the DOJ is investigating startup board seats.

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Bitcoin and ether ETFs draw $2.6 billion in strongest inflow week since October, tripling volume

Bitcoin and ether ETFs draw $2.6 billion in strongest inflow week since October, tripling volume

• Bitcoin and ether ETFs draw $2.6 billion in strongest inflow week since October, tripling volume

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Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni, says its AI ‘teammate’ just outperformed Anthropic and OpenAI at replicating research

Built by DeepMind alumni, British AI lab Inherent released Faraday, an AI agent whose ability to replicate scientific papers could be a stepping stone for innovation.

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Solana cuts mainnet slot time to 350 milliseconds in first step toward 200ms goal

Solana cuts mainnet slot time to 350 milliseconds in first step toward 200ms goal

• Solana cuts mainnet slot time to 350 milliseconds in first step toward 200ms goal

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Zcash hits eight-year high near $850 with futures volume near $10 billion amid Grayscale ETF push

Zcash hits eight-year high near $850 with futures volume near $10 billion amid Grayscale ETF push

• Zcash hits eight-year high near $850 with futures volume near $10 billion amid Grayscale ETF push

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Microsoft Fixes 'Perfect 10' Exploit That Could Have Let Hackers Run Code Remotely

The Entra ID flaw earned the highest possible severity score, but Microsoft says it patched the bug before publishing the CVE and found no evidence it was ever exploited.

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OpenAI says California should strengthen its AI safety bill

OpenAI is calling for California to strengthen SB 53, an AI safety bill that the company previously opposed.

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Frontier AI labs still won’t say how they’d contain a rogue model

A new study finds leading AI labs have few publicly documented plans for containing rogue models, raising questions about preparedness as AI systems increasingly demonstrate unexpected and potentially dangerous behavior.

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US battery startups have found a lifeline in defense

U.S. battery startups pulled in $500 million in grants from the Department of Energy, throwing a lifeline to an industry that was on the ropes after EV incentives were slashed.

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AI Has Made Bitcoin Software a Target—This Group Is Fighting Back

A group of 20-odd developers is scanning the Bitcoin ecosystem for AI-discoverable flaws, warning that cheap, powerful models have handed attackers unprecedented reach.

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Pixel 11 Pro XL review: Snappier cameras can’t hide an iterative upgrade

Google’s Pixel 11 Pro XL brings snappier cameras and genuinely useful AI features like Rambler, but its iterative upgrades may not be enough to tempt recent Pixel owners.

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A Third of the Post-ChatGPT Web Is AI-Written, Pew Finds

Pew Research scanned nearly half a million webpages with an AI detector and found the fingerprints concentrated on .com domains—and multiplying fast.

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Your AI Notetaker Would Like a Word

The modern meeting has acquired a new participant.It doesn’t contribute, laugh at jokes or pretend to understand the quarterly strategy.…

• It simply joins with a name like “John’s AI Notetaker,” records every …
• Nobody remembers inviting it.
• Nobody knows how to make it leave.

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Michael Polansky is training an AI model on skin that’s still alive

Michael Polansky — better known publicly as Lady Gaga's partner and a former top deputy to Sean Parker — has quietly spent years building an AI-driven startup that keeps living human skin tissue alive for weeks outside the body to discover new skincare compounds, and is only now going public about it.

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Japanese space tech startup Letara expands beyond satellite thrusters with $16M

Japanese space startup Letara is betting its hybrid rocket technology can move beyond small satellite thrusters into a broader market for space, defense and security, after raising ¥2.…

• 6 billion ($16 million).

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Fifth Third Backs Payload’s Embedded Payments Expansion

Payload has secured a strategic investment led by Fifth Third to expand its embedded payments platform, Payload said in a Wednesday (Aug.…

• 19) press release.
• Payload was founded in late 2019, processed its first payment in Janua…
• The company has become a leading processor of earnest money deposits f…

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Apple Cuts Vision Pro Roles to Focus on Smart Glasses Push

Apple is realigning some teams as it shifts its focus to new devices and artificial intelligence (AI), Bloomberg reported Friday (Aug.…

• 21), citing unnamed sources.
• Amid this shift, Apple is cutting jobs across its teams responsible fo…
• The company is largely shutting down a team focused on gaming for the …

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Standard Chartered and HSBC Complete First Interbank Transaction on Swift’s Blockchain-Based Ledger

Standard Chartered and HSBC have completed the first interbank transaction executed on Swift’s blockchain-based ledger, Standard Chartered said in a Wednesday (Aug.…

• 19) press release.
• This live cross-border transaction demonstrated interbank operability …
• By doing so, it marked a milestone in the use of tokenized deposits by…

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Nscale Targets $3 Billion IPO as AI Data Center Demand Soars

Nscale, a developer of artificial intelligence (AI) data centers, aims to raise as much as $3 billion in an initial public offering that could take place as soon as September, Bloomberg reported Friday (Aug.…

• 21), citing unnamed sources.
• Deliberations are ongoing, and the details could change, according to …
• Nscale is developing data centers in Norway and West Virginia, and the…

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Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 is a smut-machine

Anthropic forbids its Claude models from generating sexually explicit content. But a series of tests conducted by TechCrunch found that it didn't take much to get past the restriction.

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One AI Agent, 2,395 Payments. Still No Final Say

Preparing a batch of payments used to mean a person checking each invoice, confirming it matched what was approved, and grouping everything by hand.…

• Coupa just showed how much of that work software can now do on its own.
• The company’s Payment Batch Creation Agent ran 14 payment batches on i…
• 1 million, in its first five weeks in production, Coupa said in a Thur…

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Nvidia partners with data center developer Cloverleaf

Nvidia continues to pour money into data center development — just as AI data centers bring lots of money into Nvidia.

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How AI accounting startup Rillet raised $100M and became a unicorn in 48-hours

Rillet CEO Nicholas Koop shared growth numbers at a board meeting and set off a fundraising frenzy from Iconiq, Sequoia and others. Without even trying.

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Coldcard Adds New Security Measures After $130 Million Bitcoin Exploit

Coinkite's latest firmware requires users to add their own randomness when generating wallet seeds and fixes additional security issues uncovered during a three-week review.

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