DAILYCALLER (Derek VanBuskirk) - REPORT: DOJ Opens Probe Into Top Venture Capital Firm
The investigation has been ongoing for about a year
MEGAPHONE (Joe Rogan) - #2501 - Marc Andreessen
Marc Andreessen is a co-founder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, co-creator of the Mosaic internet browser and co-founder of Netscape, and author of “The Techno-Optimist Manifesto.”www.youtube.com/@a16zhttps://pmarca.substack.comhttps://a16z.com/the-techno-optimist-manifesto/www.a16z.com Perplexity: Download the app or ask Perplexity anything at https://pplx.ai/rogan. Great Coffee, Great Mission – Black Rifle Coffee is America’s Coffee. Visit https://blackriflecoffee.com/joerogan today to get 30% off your next order. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Marc Andreessen is a co-founder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, co-creator of the Mosaic internet browser and co-founder of Netscape, and author of “The Techno-Optimist Manifesto.” www.youtube.com/@a16z https://pmarca.substack.com https://a16z.com/the-techno-optimist-manifesto/ www.a16z.com Perplexity: Download the app or ask Perplexity anything at https://pplx.ai/rogan . Great Coffee, Great Mission – Black Rifle Coffee is America’s Coffee. Visit https://blackriflecoffee.com/joerogan today to get 30% off your next order. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesOpen
DAILYCALLER (John Loftus) - Tech Overlords Beat Out George Soros In Midterms Spending
'Single-issue voters'
NYTIMES (Theodore Schleifer and Ashley Cai) - Andreessen Horowitz Is Playing Politics Like No Other
“If you think there’s a lot of money in politics now,” Marc Andreessen said in 2000, “you haven’t seen anything yet.” His firm is now the biggest known spender on this campaign cycle.
AXIOS (Zachary Basu) - Silicon Valley is building its own news-industrial complex
Marc Andreessen on MTS. Screenshot via X Silicon Valley's most powerful venture firm helped launch a 24/7 livestream on X Monday, joining a wave of tech money piling into the news cycle as the internet's hottest new asset class. Why it matters: "Monitoring the situation" — the theme of Polymarket's pop-up D.C. bar , and now the name of a new show (MTS) funded by Andreessen Horowitz — has become one of the most viral and lucrative memes in tech. - The phenomenon sprouted from Elon Musk's X, a platform now dominated by independent creators, amateur intel analysts and prediction markets that treat real-time news as a spectator sport. - A permanent breaking-news cycle — President Trump's second term, the Iran war, daily AI shocks…
AXIOS (Maria Curi) - What AI CEOs still don't get about Washington
AI CEOs' lofty pitches for AI governance may end up being pipe dreams in a town that routinely fumbles tech policy. Why it matters: From OpenAI's Sam Altman to Anthropic's Dario Amodei, high-profile AI executives are eager to shape how their products are regulated and encouraged, rolling out sweeping policy ideas to manage the technology's impact. - But Congress — on privacy, social media and now AI — has a history of getting stuck in the policy weeds, and lawmakers are now grappling with heavy lobbying and growing constituent demands on the future of the tech. Catch up quick: OpenAI's new industrial policy paper describes AI changing the world on a scale similar to the Industrial Revolution, requiring aggressive policies like tax…