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The Latest Breaking News from Marc Andreessen

A new Silicon Valley manifesto reveals the bleak, dangerous philosophy driving the tech industry

In 1993, Marc Andreessen was an undergraduate at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he also worked at the US-government funded National Center for Supercomputing Applications. With a colleague, the young software engineer authored the Mosaic web browser, which set the standard for cruising the information superhighway in the 1990s.

The Conversation

‘Bletchley made me more optimistic’: how experts reacted to AI summit

Not everyone sees AI as a threat to humanity – caveated hope was a common mood after the artificial intelligence safety conference

The Guardian - UK

Hey tech billionaires, if you want to talk about radical change, let’s abolish venture capitalism

The future that technology elites like to imagine looks remarkably similar to the one we’re in

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Administration fails forward on China chip exports

Episode 478 of the Cyberlaw Podcast

Reason

Marc Andreessen’s ‘Techno-Optimist Manifesto’ is both political and utopian, despite his denials

The venture capitalist’s latest tract takes aim at a long list of supposed enemies of progress, but refuses to consider the ways we can make “leaps into the unknown” without abandoning safety and expertise.

Fortune

Marc Andreessen’s “Manifesto” is a 5,000-word rant—with no mention of crypto

The Andreessen Horowitz founder’s “Techno-Optimist Manifesto” is notable for several things—and the absence of one.

Fortune

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Marc Andreessen’s ‘Techno-Optimist Manifesto’ says the myth of Frankenstein, Oppenheimer, and the Terminator ‘haunts our nightmares.’ Here’s what he is (probably) getting at

“We are being lied to,” the billionaire venture capitalist says, urging humans to get past our fear of “the myth of Prometheus.”

Fortune

Marc Andreessen just dropped a ‘Techno-Optimist Manifesto’ that sees a world of 50 billion people settling other planets

From the billionaire VC’s hot takes: Slowing AI innovation will kill people, and universal basic income will turn us into zoo animals.

Fortune

VC billionaire Marc Andreessen on Tesla and SpaceX: They ‘probably would have gone under’ with anyone besides Elon Musk

In an interview with ElevenLabs, the Andreessen Horowitz cofounder said that besides a "fail fast" mentality, there's also "blind stubbornness."

Fortune

Bill Gurley warns of ‘scary’ regulatory capture efforts in the A.I space, hails open-source efforts

A.I. incumbents see open-source models as "their biggest threat" and are turning to lawmakers to fight it, said the venture capitalist.

Fortune

Marc Andreessen calls Elon Musk the ‘paramount example’ of an entrepreneur who ‘can’t turn it off’

Andreessen explained the personality traits of “real innovators”—and why the billionaire Tesla CEO runs so many companies.

Fortune

Billionaire VC Marc Andreessen welcomes the symbiotic AI future: ‘It’s going to be a much better way to live’

“It’s never going to judge you. It’s never going to be resentful. It’s never going to be upset that you didn’t listen to it,” he said.

Fortune

Tech titans’ vision for a new city in Northern California raises concerns

Silicon Valley tech tycoons on Thursday announced their intentions of building a new city in Northern California. The billionaire investors have to date spent over $900 million to acquire more than 50,000 acres of land in Solano County. Local and US officials, however, have raised concerns about what one Congressman…

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The Independent UK

Billionaires want to build a new city in rural California. They must convince voters first

Silicon Valley investors behind a secretive $800 million land-buying spree got off to a rocky start with the voters they need to build a green new city in Northern California

Fortune

WeWork is on a downward spiral that could lead to bankruptcy

After years of losses, and leadership struggles, the company warns that its days could be numbered.

Fortune

Marc Andreessen says his A.I. policy conversations in D.C. ‘go very differently’ once China is brought up

The Silicon Valley VC has noticed an odd dynamic in his conversations with policy types about artificial intelligence.

Fortune

How Marc Andreessen uses ChatGPT to prepare his son for the A.I. future: ‘It will have grown up with him’

The Silicon Valley VC has a ChatGPT tip parents can teach their children.

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Los Angeles Times

Michael Hiltzik: Artificial intelligence chatbots are spreading fast, but hype about them is spreading faster

Those of us who have spent the last few decades reporting on technology have seen fads and fashions rise and fall on investment bubbles.

Fortune

Adam Neumann shares 2 key lessons he learned from WeWork's crash

"Surround yourself not only with the best people and the smartest people, but also the ones that are going to tell you what they think," said Neumann, who is now the founder of Flow.

Fortune

VC billionaire Marc Andreessen rips the 'big companies' that want to regulate A.I. for being 'bootleggers'

“Big companies basically want a government protected cartel,” Andreessen says on the Bio Eats World podcast. “They want basically a regulatory barrier.”

Fortune

VC billionaire Marc Andreessen says A.I. could eliminate the need for labor in the best-case scenario—or lead to Chinese world domination

“What is the future shape of the world that we're gonna live in? Is it going to be a free world or authoritarian world?” Andreessen asked.

Axios

Some investors are backing both Twitter and Threads maker Meta

Some big money has decided not to choose its social media champion.

Fortune

VC billionaire Marc Andreessen says he wrote 'Why AI will save the world' because a 'hysterical freakout has arrived in Washington'

"In some ways it actually has interesting psychological similarities to some of the COVID hysteria. So there’s just a lot of hysterical freakout happening right now.”

Fortune

Bill Gates, along with Eric Schmidt and Nvidia, just minted another A.I. unicorn in a massive $1.3 billion funding round

The maker of the Pi chatbot plans one of the world's biggest A.I. supercomputers. Previous investors include Will.i.am.

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