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		<title>The DOJ is investigating a16z. What does this mean for venture capital?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Andreessen Horowitz has two partners sitting on the boards of companies that now&#160;compete with each other: Ben Horowitz at Databricks and Martin Casado at&#160;Fivetran. Nothing too scandalous on the surface, except&#160;the Department of&#160;Justice&#160;has&#160;reportedly&#160;been investigating the arrangement&#160;for&#160;almost&#160;a&#160;year, dusting&#160;off a 112-year-old antitrust&#160;law&#160;that&#8217;s&#160;rarely used against VCs.&#160; Board conflicts&#160;aren&#8217;t&#160;exactly new, and these companies&#160;weren&#8217;t&#160;necessarily direct competitors when a16z first invested [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Stripe will reportedly acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for $7B+</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 20:57:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[OpenRouter's CEO recently described the startup as Stripe for AI.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Why people aren&#8217;t buying Mark Zuckerberg’s AI future</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/16/why-people-arent-buying-mark-zuckerbergs-ai-future/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 20:32:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On the latest episode of Equity podcast, we discuss why not everyone is buying Zuckerberg’s vision.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Anthropic CEO says AI backlash is ‘fundamentally a crisis of trust’</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/16/anthropic-ceo-says-ai-backlash-is-fundamentally-a-crisis-of-trust/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anthony Ha]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 16:53:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Dario Amodei is pushing back against the idea that he's been painting an overly pessimistic picture of AI.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Woman claims her stepfather used Grok to transform childhood photo into explicit imagery</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/15/woman-claims-her-stepfather-used-grok-to-transform-childhood-photo-into-explicit-imagery/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 21:29:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The woman claimed that AI tools are "taking everyday life and turning it into child sexual abuse."]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Anthropic shares more details about how Claude’s new watermarks will work</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/15/anthropic-shares-more-details-about-how-claudes-new-watermarks-will-work/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 18:58:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[How will the watermarking actually work? Can it be hidden with editing? And how does this affect code?]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>SpaceX officially closes its Cursor acquisition</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/15/spacex-officially-closes-its-cursor-acquisition/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anthony Ha]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 16:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[AI coding startup Cursor is now officially a part of SpaceX.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Meta&#8217;s &#8216;open&#8217; AI, and a $250M deal gone very wrong </title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/podcast/metas-open-ai-and-a-250m-deal-gone-very-wrong/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Theresa Loconsolo, Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, Rebecca Bellan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Meta released Glimmer this week, an open-weight AI&#160;model&#160;anyone can download and run on their own hardware&#160;— a contrast to&#160;Muse&#160;Spark, the company’s more powerful model that stays locked behind its own APIs. The release landed alongside&#160;a letter from Mark Zuckerberg&#160;arguing AI should be “for everyone” rather than controlled by a handful of labs, but as Equity’s [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Embattled hedge fund Situational Awareness invests $400M in chip startup Source Foundry</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/09/embattled-hedge-fund-situational-awareness-invests-400m-in-chip-startup-source-foundry/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anthony Ha]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 20:35:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The AI-focused hedge fund is still making some big bets.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Anthropic is turning Claude Code’s auto mode on by default</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/09/anthropic-is-turning-claude-codes-auto-mode-on-by-default/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anthony Ha]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 19:20:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Programming with Claude Code will soon require even less human oversight.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Historian Jill Lepore says Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/09/historian-jill-lepore-says-the-tech-industry-is-led-by-bad-readers-who-are-undermining-democracy/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anthony Ha]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On the latest episode of Equity, we spoke to Jill Lepore about "government by machines" and why Elon Musk is a bad science fiction reader.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Planned Amazon data center could become the biggest climate polluter in the US</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/08/planned-amazon-data-center-could-become-the-biggest-climate-polluter-in-the-u-s/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anthony Ha]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 21:24:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[AI has already had a significant impact on Amazon’s carbon emissions, which it reported were up 16% last year — the wrong direction for a company that pledged to eliminate its carbon emissions by 2040. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/08/openai-acquires-presentation-startup-nextslide/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anthony Ha]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 19:41:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Founder Ahmed Beshry describes the startup’s product as one “that could turn prompts, notes, documents, or research into a polished, editable presentation.”]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>X replaces ‘misaligned’ revenue sharing program with Original Content Rewards</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/08/x-replaces-misaligned-revenue-sharing-program-with-original-content-rewards/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anthony Ha]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 16:34:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[X, the social media platform now owned by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, is shaking up how it pays influencers and creators.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Jill Lepore on the ‘Artificial State’ and why Silicon Valley&#8217;s leaders are bad sci-fi readers</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/podcast/jill-lepore-on-the-artificial-state-and-why-silicon-valleys-leaders-are-bad-sci-fi-readers/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anthony Ha, Theresa Loconsolo]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Historian Jill Lepore has a theory about why tech companies often use soaring language to describe their products —&#160;almost as&#160;if&#160;they&#8217;re&#160;forming a new government. And whether&#160;you&#8217;re&#160;thinking of Twitter&#8217;s old “town hall in your pocket” or&#160;Anthropic&#8217;s Claude constitution,&#160;it&#8217;s&#160;a theory that&#160;doesn&#8217;t&#160;paint Silicon Valley in a very flattering light.&#160;&#160; In&#160;Lepore&#8217;s&#160;upcoming book,&#160;The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State, the&#160;Pulitzer [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The global memory shortage hits the MacBook Air</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/02/the-global-memory-shortage-hits-the-macbook-air/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anthony Ha]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 21:33:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The global memory chip shortage appears to be affecting the availability of Apple’s most popular Mac.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Sam Altman and AI’s decel debate</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/02/sam-altman-and-ais-decel-debate/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anthony Ha]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 20:54:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On the latest episode of Equity, we discuss why Sam Altman is calling on the industry to "pace the rate of AI development."]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Malaysia is reportedly shutting down Balaji Srinivasan’s Network School</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/02/malaysia-is-reportedly-shutting-down-balaji-srinivasans-network-school/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anthony Ha]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 17:05:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Let's see how this "frontier community for techno-optimists" is doing ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Judge denies xAI’s request to block Minnesota ban on ‘nudify’ apps</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/01/judge-denies-xais-request-to-block-minnesota-ban-on-nudify-apps/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anthony Ha]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 20:26:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Despite a lawsuit from xAI, a Minnesota ban on apps that allow users to “nudify” images can move forward.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>YouTuber Hank Green says his AI usage is ‘not healthy’</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/01/youtuber-hank-green-says-his-ai-usage-is-not-healthy/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 19:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Green offered a remarkable apology, saying that "the level of dopamine that I've been getting from interacting with LLMs ... is not healthy for me or good for the world."]]></description>
		
		
		
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