Before joining Sequoia Capital in 2020 as chief digital and information officer, Avon Puri spent over a decade running infrastructure at Rubrik and VMware. Three years ago, as large language models began showing their true potential, Puri, alongside another Sequoia IT leader, Sudheer Dhurjati, recognized that AI could help autonomously solve a major challenge for infrastructure engineers –…
As companies start giving AI agents access to an increasing portion of their systems, a nascent software supply chain seems to be forming around the new tooling AI agents are using: skills, plug-ins, MCP servers, and add-ons that let them interact with the internet.
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Fambot introduces an ‘AI chief of staff’ for families
September 2, 2026
AI agents that perform tasks on your behalf to help solve your daily problems are all the rage in Silicon Valley. But the startup Fambot sees a future for agents out in the real world, too, where they’re used by families who need help keeping up with the mental load of…
Nvidia’s $3.5B MediaTek bet reveals its plan for tackling Big Tech’s AI chip buildout
September 1, 2026
Nvidia is investing $3.5 billion into Taiwanese chipmaker MediaTek. As part of the deal, MediaTek will adopt Nvidia’s technology that will help it design custom chips for AI companies and hyperscalers that can be plugged directly into Nvidia-based data centers.
The deal comes as a growing number of AI companies and major cloud providers like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic…
The meeting note-taker market is a crowded space. Just in the last few weeks, dictation app Wispr launched its own note-taker and scheduling app, and Calendly added a similar tool to its stack. Dedicated meeting note-takers like Granola, Read AI, and Fireflies have raised…
At TechBBQ, Europe’s AI conversations kept coming back to: Who’s actually in control?
September 1, 2026
At TechBBQ in Copenhagen, the conversation among investors, founders, and operators from across Europe wasn’t just about what to build with AI, but who should control it. No matter where you were during the annual Nordic conference, from onstage to cocktail hours and…
Nvidia’s AI advantage is moving beyond the GPU
August 31, 2026
Before this week, the dominant story about Nvidia went something like this: For the first few years of the AI boom, Nvidia was the only source for state-of-the-art GPUs, which became immensely profitable as the industry scaled out. In the last few years, hyperscalers like Amazon and Google have started building their own chips, and Nvidia is no longer the only game in town, leading many investors…
Everyone’s waiting for Nvidia to confirm this week’s most interesting tech deal: A reported $13 billion acquisition of Hugging Face, a platform for sharing open-weight AI models and benchmarks.
Now best known as the target for a team of reward-hacking OpenAI…
A federal judge in California ruled on Thursday evening that the Trump administration’s designation of Anthropic as a supply-chain risk was illegal.
U.S. District Judge Rita Lin said in her ruling that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s labeling of Anthropic as a…
In July, OpenAI admitted that one of its agents tasked with completing a cybersecurity experiment broke out of containment and hacked AI dataset platform Hugging Face. That incident, which got a full accounting from OpenAI yesterday, was the first publicly reported case where an LLM went rogue and autonomously hacked a third party.
Since then, that unprecedented sci-fi-esque event turned out to…
