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Greg Brockman says 80% of OpenAI’s code is now written by AI

Greg Brockman’s comments at Sequoia’s AI Ascent 2026 conference fit a pattern of AI lab leaders citing self-reinforcing productivity numbers, but the underlying evidence on AI coding productivity remains substantially more contested than the headline figure suggests.

Internet Explorer creator Thomas Reardon raises $500M for Flourish, a brain-inspired AI efficiency startup valued at $2.5B

Thomas Reardon, who created Internet Explorer and sold neural interface startup CTRL-labs to Meta for up to $1 billion, is raising approximately $500 million for Flourish at a $2.5 billion valuation. The startup uses connectomics and neuroscience to design AI architectures that are radically more energy-efficient, targeting the architectural layer above silicon rather than building new chips. Lux Capital and GV, who backed CTRL-labs, are expected to lead the round.

News publishers are blocking the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine

The New York Times, CNN, USA Today, The Guardian, and at least 241 other news organisations across nine countries have moved to restrict the Archive’s crawlers, a decision the Archive’s own director has called being ‘collateral damage’ in a war that is not really about them.

OpenAI's president says AI has gone from writing 20% to '80% of your code'

Greg Brockman said that AI has become more than a small supporting tool for software engineers.

An early-stage VC shares why he's not investing in AI coding startups

Jussi Salovaara, managing partner at startup accelerator Antler Asia, said he doesn't see much more room for new entrants in the AI-assisted coding space.

ChatGPT Images 2.0 is a hit in India, but not a big winner elsewhere, yet

Users in India are embracing ChatGPT Images 2.0 for creative, personal visuals — from avatars to cinematic portraits.

Claude Code for Product Managers

How one general manager runs a full product using AI for planning, monitoring, and research

Introducing Workflows for Computer

Perplexity's Workflows for Computer automate business tasks like preparing for sales calls and creating presentations.

Y Combinator alum Skio sells for $105M cash, only raised $8M, founder says

Subscription billing fintech Skio sold to its competitor Recharge in what was a healthy exit, according to its founder and former CEO.

Pete Hegseth goes out of his way to call Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei an “ideological lunatic.”

Anthropic vs. the Pentagon: killer robots, mass surveillance, and red lines

Here’s how Gabe Newell and Hideo Kojima ended up in the Musk v. Altman evidence.

Live updates from Elon Musk and Sam Altman’s court battle over the future of OpenAI

Anthropic potential $900B+ valuation round could happen within two weeks

Anthropic is asking investors to submit allocations for the AI company’s latest fundraise within the next 48 hours, according to sources familiar with the matter.