Andreessen Horowitz has launched a new “Machine Age” fund with $1.1 billion raised. The firm’s aim with the new fund is to “open the throttle and accelerate the physical buildout of AI.” The fund will focus on hardware, bucking the firm’s typical focus on the scaling power of software. In a post on the venture
Residents of a rural Texas county say they want more control over the gigantic AI infrastructure projects sprouting in their backyards. Nearly 900 residents of Grimes County, the site of Elon Musk’s planned 100-million-square-foot Terafab semiconductor factory, signed a petition calling for more stringent regulations on large infrastructure projects that receive public incentives. The residents
