Lazarte has only been at Benchmark for two years. He backed startups like Mercor, HeyGen, and Decart AI.

BiteSight is a food-delivery app that lets users watch videos of food before ordering. It also lets customers see what their friends have ordered and bookmark places to try out.

The NATO Innovation Fund (NIF) is entering a new chapter, marked by the arrival of two new partners and the departure of its penultimate founding team partner.

iRocket is aiming to hit the public markets but the SPAC vehicle doesn’t have much cash left.

The comment came shortly after analysts peppered Pichai and other Google executives with questions about how AI would affect its core search business and why Google is spending an extra $10 billion on capital expenditures this year to catch up in the AI race.

When DeepSeek, Alibaba, and other Chinese firms released their AI models, Western researchers quickly noticed they sidestepped questions critical of the Chinese Communist Party. U.S. officials later confirmed that these tools are engineered to reflect Beijing’s talking points, raising concerns about censorship and bias. American AI leaders like OpenAI have pointed to this as justification […]

A new AI coding challenge has revealed its first winner — and set a new bar for AI-powered software engineers. 

It’s the first such product to reach the market, and it could unlock a host of fattened-up meat alternatives.

Researchers say Apple sent out threat notifications to several Iranians in recent months, saying their iPhones had been hacked. Iran is likely behind the attacks.

PayPal is partnering with global fintech companies to let users pay to different wallet systems cross border.