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Charts of the Week: Reflections from Sohn
Peak computer science; Small Business Boom; Token maxxing
May 22 • Moses Sternstein
Flock and the Future of Safety in American Cities
The greatest deterrent to crime isn't the severity of punishment but whether you think you'll get caught
May 21 • Michael McGuiness
Exa is Building the Search Engine for the AI Era
Your AI system should have truly comprehensive knowledge of the world, no matter how complex the request
May 20 • Will Bryk
Investing in Exa
a16z leads Exa's Series C
May 20 • Sarah Wang, Jennifer Li, Steph Zhang, and Jason Cui
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Things you might learn about AI adoption from your local plaintiff attorney
May 19 • Alex Danco
Charts of the Week: Memory to the Moon
Affirm’s AI Turn; Shrinking SmallCaps; California’s Healthcare Jobmaker
May 15 • a16z New Media
From “System of Record” to “System of Intelligence”
The reasoning layer that sits above the database, and that increasingly treats the database as infrastructure, is where a new generation of companies is…
May 14 • Gio Ahern, Steph Zhang, and Alex Immerman
Investing in Stitch
a16z leads Stitch's Series A
May 14 • Alex Rampell and James da Costa
Is Software Losing Its Head?
Agents may kill muscle memory as a moat, but they do not kill operational logic and context as a moat.
May 13 • Seema Amble
"No Man Left Behind": American Technology Ships with Our Values
China is already building autonomous weapons at scale. The question is whether America builds them first, or cedes the rules of war to Beijing.
May 11 • Danny Penny, Alex Oliver, and Zach Chen
Charts of the Week: It Was a Good Quarter for "Other Income"
The Slop Surplus; Call Centers, Not Dead Yet; In AI, Great Products Win Fast
May 8 • a16z New Media
How an AI Bill Becomes a Law
The question is no longer whether Congress is interested in AI legislation. It is whether the political conditions will align to move a proposal.
May 7 • Ben Napier and Matt Perault
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