Alex Konrad, Forbes Staff

The startup’s new round led by Menlo Ventures surprised some industry insiders for its form of a special purpose vehicle and its function to help price bets by giants Amazon and Google.

Led by former Sequoia partner Michael Abramson, two-year-old Newlands already holds billions in equities like Alphabet, Amazon and Meta. But no one wants to talk.

Inflection AI, is the startup behind the conversational chatbot Pi. It unveiled a new AI model that the company claims can outperform Google and Meta models — and is hot on the heels of OpenAI’s larger, flagship model GPT-4.

Former Twitch CEO Emmett Shear has been tapped by the board instead, ending a weekend-long saga in which loyalists to Altman had pushed for a shock return.

A day after OpenAI’s board of directors fired former CEO Sam Altman in a shock development, investors in the company are plotting how to restore him in what would amou…

Leading investors including Vinod Khosla and Reid Hoffman didn’t receive advanced notice that OpenAI’s board would push out its CEO and cofounder, sources told Forbes.

Rumored to be in the works for the past year, the initiative appears to have begun rolling out recently, with email solicitations being sent to potential buyers.

For bigger tech companies, Israel’s mass mobilization has proven a manageable hiccup in business as usual. For smaller ones, it can pose an existential challenge.

The third Mark Zuckerberg is ready for his closeup.

CEO Eric Yuan is launching smart Zoom Docs, a beefier chatbot and office booking tools for Zoom’s next act in a hybrid, AI-powered world.