Author: Nadia Fox
Nadia reports on the tech industry with a focus on policy, business strategy, and the people building it.
Index Ventures co-founder Neil Rimer says AI wealth will be redistributed — voluntarily or by force. A rare warning from inside Silicon Valley’s capital machine.
SF Mayor Daniel Lurie demands tougher state rules for Waymo after a hours-long gridlock event exposed gaps in robotaxi oversight.
DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis proposes an independent AI standards body modeled after FINRA to test frontier models before release.
Meta’s custom AI chips enter production in September, built with a modular design to adapt as AI workloads evolve rapidly.
Netflix’s binge-watching model faces a new problem — viewers aren’t returning for Season 2, signaling a deeper retention crisis beyond format competition.
Bending Spoons went public at an $18B valuation. Its co-founders built the company’s acquisition playbook from the lessons of their own startup’s failure.
Corgi, a Y Combinator-backed insurtech startup, denies stealing Papermark’s open source software, raising questions about AI vibe coding accountability.
Polymarket reportedly paid creators to film fake betting wins on near-perfect replica websites, staging trades and profits that never occurred on the real platform.
Apple’s WWDC 2026 focused heavily on AI, with Siri upgrades and iOS 27 carrying Apple Intelligence features throughout the OS.
OpenAI launched Lockdown Mode to limit sensitive data exposure from prompt injection attacks, while acknowledging ChatGPT remains potentially vulnerable.












